If it’s any consolation, you are almost certainly within ~3 years of understanding the solution and a dozen variants. It’s not a super deep area. Probably doesn’t really require calculus (you need continuous as in ‘the lion doesn’t teleport; that’s cheating’, but I think not much more).
I’m a little sad nobody with the relevant mathematics background has jumped in. These puzzles are considered; a simple version is the lion-hunting-man where both have the same speed and infinite turning speed (eg, this paper, where the arena they play in varies).
I think this is the proper way to treat games that you’re done developing. My only requests might be:
It’s likely in some cultural groups - and has been true for a friend or two of mine. A particular example was someone going to a Psych ward, where their phone was kept in a vault. Obviously you know more context than me. But the probability is nonzero.
They’ve suddenly landed in a really controlling environment (be it a partner, parents, or a government), and wish to hide your relationship/keep you out of the crosshairs.
Favorite so far was probably Talos Principle 2. It was excellent, best movie of the year. And the puzzles were fun too.
Somebody dropped a fair bit of cash and got Balders Gate 3 running for everyone. It’s been big enough to fill a lot of time, but probably wont solve the problem when we’re not all on vacation.
Factorio is a dangerous, but very fun, suggestion =)
Didn’t realize it could do more than 2! That’s wonderful!
I didn’t realize Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime did more than 2! That’s great!
Both actually! Two different groups of 3. Offline bunch has ended up doing baba is you for the last year or so (not coop, but puzzles are pretty easy to backseat game).
Eh - surely this is because one party (rightly) had a platform of cutting police funding. Selfish explains most of this, surely?
Fortunately containers can get bigger =)
While we aren’t all the same, there’s a difference between things that require holding 8 complicated things in mind at once, and things that require a little language learning and the intelligence to solve a crossword. This is closer to the latter - like doing a crossword in Spanish. You need to know a bunch of little things, but learning them is basically all tedium and not brilliant insights. (Taking these puzzles, creating a dozen new variants, and solving all of those probably does require managing a lot of complexity. But to understand the work of others, is not so bad)