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Tough, but fun. Took me a couple times through to fully grok. Well done!

Will admit I got excited when I saw the name - I played (the other) Twixt with my Grandpa when I was a kid, it was super fun.

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Yeah it can be really tough. The tricky thing is finding a puzzle that a good majority of people (50-70%) can solve without hints. It's also super unpredictable to determine what people will find tricky. I thought today's puzzle was relatively straight forward, it's EYE -> TIRED. But now I'm realising that EYE has so many compound words which mean N blind alleys to explore before you land on the correct path.

And yes, TwixT does look like a really novel game! I've never really seen a peg board style board game before. I'll try find an old copy on eBay and give it a go.

> I'll try find an old copy on eBay and give it a go.

Do you have suitable opponents? If not, try playing on the internet:

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/games/gamedetail.jsp?gtid=tw...

(I'm very proud to have once won a championship there, also apparently I'm the highest rated player on the 48x48 board, yay!)

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