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"Portal 2 marries the warm and friendly approach to supporting characters that Valve had been pursuing since Half-Life 2 with even more clever and complex puzzle design."
"The main thing I’ve learned is that puzzle design is a very difficult craft."
"Quality over quantity in puzzles, make them engaging and interesting."
"Odyssey constantly strives to innovate and be original."
"An emotional, complex, and anonymous voyage told as an interactive parable..."
"Making puzzles kind of like just difficult enough to be satisfying but not so difficult..."
"Well-designed puzzles with great solutions that felt satisfying and rewarding."
"This is a gorgeous idea for a puzzle, isn't it?"
"The linear nature of the shadow temple allows for some great puzzle progression."
"Sure it may not be the hardest but for having so many different options on how to beat it on top of having a ton of different fun puzzles the Key Master gets to easily take number one as the best level in Mario Maker 2 story mode."
"It's really really beautiful. It's a beautiful puzzle. Well done, it. Choose, take a bow."
"It's a game filled with wonderful little platforming puzzles."
"The Golden Isle is filled with epic scale puzzles inspired by Greek mythology."
"These puzzles are so well thought out. I just can't get over how good this game is, guys."
"It's just like a Mobius strip-type cube. It is so, so great."
"That gives me a great idea. I have graduated from riddles to creating actual mazes."
"The puzzle rooms in this place are all pretty decent, some even being really creative and fun."
"This puzzle is a massive tribute to the writer John Irving."
"This is so brilliant to actually, I mean it's brilliant enough to be able to construct a puzzle based on a completely new technique."
"No two pieces are alike, which is good because if they were, that would get very confusing."
"Rocky Rower is a brilliant constructor; the puzzles are always great fun."
"These setters, they never cease to amaze me."
"That's frightening, isn't it? That is just frighteningly clever setting."
"It's one of the most original and brilliant puzzles I've ever seen in my life."
"Look how beautiful the design of this puzzle is; it's a symmetric grid sort of mirror symmetry around the center."
"The most important thing is that we get to make this book and to showcase these wonderful puzzles by these incredible constructors."
"Sam, some sort of genius, absolutely incredible puzzle."
"You can create a unique Sudoku puzzle just by saying there's a snake between these six cells."
"Terrifying constructor... whose puzzles give me the fear because they are always absurdly clever."
"It's so delicate, that Pixel Plucker's selection here of this 19 cage, beautiful setting."
"This is elegance personified, isn't it? It's just crazy good."
"This is quite a common puzzle type that you see in escape room games."
"This whole grid exhibits some weird symmetry, look at that, in fact the whole grid is rotationally symmetric."
"It's totally unbelievable that someone had set such a lovely and intricate puzzle in only an hour."
"There isn't a constructor alive who wouldn't be proud of this puzzle, really fabulous."
"This can be as complex as you want, and you can even have multiple solutions to the same maze."
"Art strives for minimalism, so it is very unlikely that there is any superfluous information in this puzzle."
"This is one of the most extraordinary puzzles I've ever seen."
"It's by the constructor Mitchell Lee, who is one of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt setters."
"We had to painstakingly hide so many puzzles and codes."
"It's just gorgeous, one of another just stunning puzzle from these incredible setters."
"The cleverest and most elegant thing for me about this puzzle is that Zeta Math has made it fair and beautiful at the same time."
"That is a very clever design of a puzzle."
"Their puzzles are all handcrafted and they just have a beautiful logic to them."
"What he has included in it is absolutely brilliant."
"Mark describes a Fistumafel puzzle as basically you take a rule set, you hypothetically imagine the very best puzzle you could possibly set with that rule set and that's what Fistumafel will have done."
"For me, setting a puzzle has five parts: Part one is the concept, or essentially the end goal."
"Difficult deductions should be telegraphed, which means that the puzzle should naturally lead the solver into finding them."
"It's a class puzzle that has been put together with a lot of clever thought."
"I love this puzzle, it's another of these puzzles from Fistumaphel where you think there could be a whole series of these."
"It's just so well constructed, and its integrity stays intact."
"Hats off as usual to Jonas on coming up with something this gorgeous."
"Lovely puzzle Ziki Fish, well done."
"I believe that a really good puzzle setter has the ability to model what a solver is thinking and focusing on at each step they arrive at in the solve of a puzzle."
"The puzzles that I find satisfyingly hard to solve tend to be the ones that have a tough idea or even many tough ideas presented fairly."
"Every digit except the digit in the center has a partner digit that is always placed 180 degrees rotationally symmetrical to it."
"The Symmetry in this puzzle is amazing, it is literally only broken up by the ping pong ball."
"It's just a staggering example of how to set something using a negative constraint."
"The actual instructions to this puzzle include the reference that the coloring is just for decoration, or is it?"
"Thank you to the constructors, really really nice set."
"What a gorgeous puzzle, just really quality setting."
"For a puzzle setter to appreciate the beauty of a puzzle, there must be something really special about this."
"We spend quite a lot of time trying to make sure the rules of the puzzle are as clear as possible."
"Look at the geometry of this clue; it's very clever."
"An interesting idea, certainly worth trying these ideas to see if we can come up with really interesting puzzles."