Prox

This guy unpacked the code to show that once you’re 1000 points past your high score the game has an increasingly higher chance of being impossible. Not “quite hard”, but literally unable to win. There’s a good little interactive sample of how the game builds the impossible hands that it then serves.

Your note on “time to take a break” is funny to read, because the game accounts for this, too.

Sure, but won’t someone think of the shareholders?

Why even add that complication of a secondary device? Programmable coffee makers are like $30 and they last forever. I’ve been using my Walmart cheapo machine for 20+ years. This is a totally solved problem.

This is the cognitive debt of the past. We already had it. We just didn’t have the name for it.

We always called it “domain knowledge” or “tribal knowledge”.