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This is awesome, but tutorial seems slow and boring.

Friendly reminder: launch iOS/Android version before someone else does

As far as I can tell, this is the same game as Unruly[0], which is included in Chris Boyle's Android port[1] of Simon Tatham's puzzle collection.

EDIT: The history is a little more interesting than that. The janko.at page on Tohu wa Vohu[2] names many pre-existing variants: Eins und Zwei, Binary Puzzles[3], Binoxxo, and others. Binary Puzzles are notable for being paper-and-pencil puzzles, but it's not clear whether these were first paper-and-pencil puzzles or computer puzzles.

[0] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/doc/unru...

[1] https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/

[2] http://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Tohu-Wa-Vohu/index.htm

[3] http://www.puzzle-magazine.com/binary-puzzle-magazine.php

Wow that collection of puzzles is awesome, thanks for the reference!

Eh? I thought the tutorial was great. Took less than 2 minutes, I totally understood the rules, and had completed a sample puzzle. What more could you want?

A way to just see the damn rules! :)

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