Pixel Puzzle Collection

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This game is super fun. The puzzles are challenging to accomplish, and it felt good to learn strategies to solve them quickly.

Genres: puzzle, pixel art, casual, japan

Number of days played
32

Thoughts

Activity 2025-01-24-Friday

Start time: 16:29 PM

Reached 65%

Activity 2024-06-08-Saturday

Start time: 20:11 PM

Reached 56.2%
Havn't encountered a really challenging one in some time now and clearing most puzzles under 10 minutes.

Activity 2024-05-31-Friday

Start time: 20:55 PM

Reached 53%

Activity 2024-05-27-Monday

Start time: 21:14 PM

Reached 51.2%

Activity 2024-05-19-Sunday

Start time: 07:41 AM

I got to 49% completion
It looks like I can get done 5% every 2 weeks or so. At this rate, I should be able to finish it within another 20 weeks.

Activity 2024-05-11-Saturday

Start time: 09:43 AM

I got to 46.2% completion

Activity 2024-05-03-Friday

Start time: 07:32 AM

Reached 42% completion

Activity 2024-03-31-Sunday

First mention of this game being played.

Strategies

Some strategies:

Don't guess. All the placements should be backed by a logical reduction.
Ambiguity simply means working a different area of the puzzle.
Change between working vertically and horizontally; Usually, change in one dimension will open up opportunities for the other.
Prioritize completing lines on the edges, they're very useful since the grid can be considered as surrounded by ❌ tiles.
Look for long lines, big numbers usually means you can span the entire grid and help you block out a large areas 🟦 into smaller, more manageable areas.
- The reverse is also true; very small numbers can be used as well to block out ❌ areas
It's very important to know where tiles can't go.
A useful method to fill out tiles is to look at the number and count out tiles that MUST exist in either direction.

Example

Starting from this:

5	❌	❌								❌

Count from the left:

5	❌	❌	1	2	3	4	5			❌

and count from the right

5	❌	❌			5	4	3	2	1	❌

Fill out tiles for everything that overlaps (3, 4 5)

5	❌	❌			🟦	🟦	🟦			❌

Keep the other tiles empty; they represent unknowns of where the tiles could be. ❌ should only be used when we're certain that a tile couldn't exist there.

https://www.konami.com/games/us/en/products/pixelpuzzle/