Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by you can't solve it, I've been able to solve 3 so far, only one with the hint. Unless you mean provably solve in the fewest steps or something. I'm curious if you could elaborate further on the difficulties you're having with it.

It's a neat game! The mechanics and the general idea is intuitive (all the road joints should connect sensibly). And extremely hard, because it's still an abstract artwork with very minimal constraints.

I think if there was some kind of indication of what the final thing should look like, or an indication if after manipulation a tile is either in the correct spot but wrong rotation, or correct spot and correct rotation, it would go a long way to making the game feel solvable, as you can have a sense of progress.

Interesting concept. Certainly took a bit of head scratching to get the concept, but now starting to solve them. I did get a successful solve that wasn’t correct, some of the roads weren’t connected.

https://imgur.com/a/UEBe8uv

It is a neat game. With a bit of trying you can find some patterns:

* Every tile has two orientations 0 and 180 degrees which allows to cut a lot of possibilities for small fields. * Three tiles can be flipped together, meaning if you have one or two tiles unsolved, your idea won't work out. * Large fields have more solutions.

Sadly I found some bugs:

* World generation does not work correctly: there is an unmovable field (nice idea!) but during generation it gets moved. This makes some puzzles unsolvable. The randomizer should ignore this field. * The undo function has some issues undoing the wrong move or skipping a move. Fully undoing a puzzle does not always result in a solution. If this happens while you're playing you get locked.

Does your puzzle start from an (non-visible) completed state, then you apply to it a random number between 50-100 of random moves/swaps, and then it becomes visible for the player? I mean is it (even) solvable? Or each piece of the puzzle is randomly placed AND randomly oriented, which could make potentially unsolvable?

It looks a lot like mind-bending 'Knots' game: https://brainteaser.top/knot/

I like the somewhat minimalistic style of this. However I think you might need to be some sort of delayed gratification masochist to thoroughly enjoyed it!

I'm horrible at these kinds of puzzles, but it's a very clever concept! Nice work!

There’s a tile that I cannot move. It looks like 2 houses 3 trees and one well.

This is pretty easy to solve each level. Here is the strategy I used: in the top right corner there is a button that looks like an "undo" icon and a number. Just keep hitting that until the puzzle is solved. Then you can stop.