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Nicely done",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"25356824","simonmales","Love web games just working.",{"value":90,"source":56,"evidence":91},"Levels become interesting later, with beautiful later puzzles",[92,96],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"25357884","yamrzou","Level 21 gets interesting :)",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"25359219","throwaway998663","OK I couldn't control myself and kept going... it actually goes all the way to 118. Some of 100-118 are really tough but some are just beautiful. It never goes above 4 slices.…",[101,111,125],{"value":102,"source":56,"evidence":103},"Levels become repetitive, with too many three-move levels",[104,105,108],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":106,"by":60,"text":107},"25359700","> 94 is the first level with 4 moves Strange, It's 90 on my computer… Btw, 70 levels with three moves is waaay to much. 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Guess that’s not possible.",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"25358032","willis936","And vertical\u002Fhorizontal scrolling.",[137,152,156],{"value":138,"source":56,"evidence":139},"Smoother difficulty curve or level selection based on solve rate",[140,144,148],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"25357943","currere","Since some people are complaining about the difficulty curve, you could randomly generate puzzles and rate them, and players, with Bayeselo (or similar; like chesstempo does).…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"25358440","rstarast","Might help to adapt level selection to how quickly levels are being solved.",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"25358767","mentos","Yea same here If you haven't yet maybe implement statistics so you can see at which level people give up at? 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