Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThe developer documentation is absolutely top notch: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/ And I think the code is a masterclass of how to write C. Take a look at the source for the tents puzzle, it’s amazing. https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=blob;f=tents...
I install this on everything. It is really really good, and IMO the way more games should be made: make a fast simple windowmanager friendly interface presenting puzzles and games in a very pure and unencumbered form. Another example: I love SimCity 2000 for Win95, but not SimCity 3000 or SimCity 4. Why? Wright did 2000 right, the post-EA SimCities were all full screen flashy playskool interface monstrosities. 3000 brought some cool features in, but I wish they had kept…
I've had this on my phone for years, it's a great collection of puzzles. I haven't tried them all (games on phones), but it's certainly the best I have. No ads, no useless gamification, but well polished and varied puzzles, and quite a bit of control over the difficulty. My favourite has to be "Keen", it's a sudoku-like where a grid has to be filled with no repeated numbers on either columns or rows, and arbitrarily shaped cells must be…
Nice puzzles, but very bad usability on smartphones.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 707
- Total comments
- 177
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-17 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection | blewboarwastake | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-11-02 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection | marcodiego | 14 | 3 |
| 2022-07-20 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle CollectionFirst breakout · Best thread | WorldPeas | 274 | 69 |
| 2024-01-28 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection | cabidaher | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-04-21 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection | r2b2 | 212 | 53 |
| 2025-07-26 | Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle CollectionLatest 20+ point return | sogen | 200 | 51 |