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Comment by vorg

11 years ago

> this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here

Good for beta testing it.

Unlike with Threes, there's no real reason to use numbers since they're all powers of 2. If you used letters (A, B, C, ...) you could market it to non-HN sorts, and have a version of the game in a 5x5 grid, or, more to the point, in a 6x6 grid with letters A to Z. Most people in the world know the order of letters in English.

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eru  11 years ago

Good idea with the letters, but perhaps not necessary. People are happy with simple numbers. Just look at Sudoku which doesn't use A to I.

  • vorg  11 years ago

    I'm certain letters are necessary for a 5x5 or 6x6 board. M is better than 16,384, and Z far better than 67,108,864.