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Hi there!
I've got some big news! In case you
didn't notice yet, Puzzle Pack #2 is now
available! You can get it (and the first one)
here: https://cluesbysam.com/s/packs.html
Like the first pack, it contains 50 new puzzles
of varying difficulties. This time they are
slightly harder, with more evil puzzles, and
even the easy ones are slightly harder.
(I'm also working on an Easy pack, which
will be great for more casual solvers.)
While the first pack is "pay what you
want" with a $1.00 minimum (or similar in
your local currency), this one is a fixed 5.00€
(with currency conversion available). That
seemed like an average, fair price people were
ready to pay for a pack of 50 puzzles. I hope
you find the price fair as well!
If you already bought the pack, thank you so
much! Each contribution is very much
appreciated, as it helps me use more of my
working time on the game. With the support
I'm receiving through these packs,
I'll be able to keep improving these daily
puzzles, and also work on some upcoming
features, like a "profile page" where
you'll be able to see a history of your
daily results and how they compare to others.
I'm very excited for all the cool things
we'll be having next year thanks to your
support!
Speaking of daily results, here's last
weeks results (and links to the puzzles). But
this time I did some additional filtering to the
data. Let me share what I did and why: There was
a good question on Reddit
about solve times. How come some people are so
fast? Some of the times did indeed seem awfully
fast. So I spent some time going through the
fastest solvers to see if I could spot anything
weird. And I did discover some clearly
unreliable results, like someone completing the
Sunday puzzle in 11 seconds with no mistakes.
Even less than 4 minutes seems unbelievable, but
where should we draw the line? (Please let me
know if you actually did solve Sunday's
puzzle in less than 3 minutes, I'd love to
know!)
So for this data set, I've removed results
that seem unrealistic based on some heuristic
rules. For example, if you completed the Sunday
puzzle in less than 1 minute, and it was your
first time playing the game, you're out. I
also left out results with a significant number
of hints and errors. I will keep working on
these, so the numbers might keep changing from
week to week, but hopefully we'll get to
some reasonable numbers eventually!
So here we have the top 1% / 10% / 50% solve
times, % of completions without making any
mistakes, and % of completions without using any
hints.
Mon 2025-12-01 (Easy): 1m 45s / 2m 37s / 4m 40s / 37% / 83%
Tue 2025-12-02 (Medium): 2m 9s / 3m 22s / 6m 14s / 35% / 70%
Wed 2025-12-03 (Tricky): 2m 16s / 3m 37s / 6m 48s / 40% / 70%
Thu 2025-12-04 (Tricky): 2m 51s / 4m 27s / 8m 9s / 28% / 65%
Fri 2025-12-05 (Hard): 2m 46s / 4m 19s / 7m 52s / 41% / 72%
Sat 2025-12-06 (Hard): 3m 16s / 5m 10s / 9m 38s / 29% / 66%
Sun 2025-12-07 (Hard): 4m 27s / 7m 46s / 14m 6s / 10% / 44%
Seems like Thursday was harder than intended.
Otherwise, looking pretty smooth! As a side
note, today's top 1% solve time so far is
2m 2s. Will it be an overall harder week than
last week? We'll see!
Here's also some extra challenges for you.
If you're longing for, you know where to get them!
#1 Medium https://cluesbysam.com/archive/cbc95f139da9
#2 Tricky https://cluesbysam.com/archive/ac3d50ecd0f7
#3 Hard https://cluesbysam.com/archive/3a5bdb1ff951
#4 Evil https://cluesbysam.com/archive/75d5ebef1391
Happy solving!
-Sam
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