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Great concept! Today's puzzle is kinda easy but I love the game.

A couple ideas:

- Adjustable time controls? An OTB 90 30 game is not the same as an online 5 0, would be interesting to see the difference.

- Adjustable ratings? It's probably bad humor for terrible people, but it would be really funny to try and guess what happens in a low-rated game.

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Thanks for the feedback! For now I'm selecting games where they play near-optimal moves or where the continuation is somewhat logical, so that you could narrow down the options by combining several logical continuations into one guess. I think it would be really hard to solve if an illogical bad move appeared in the line. However, since I'm storing the solve percentage of each puzzle, it would be fun trying it now and then to compare the difficulties.

Adding OTB games is a good idea. I am thinking of adding some classical games, but I'm not sure if I'll have a new category or just add them to the regular daily ones.

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