Simply Puzzles: Junctions

Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... *1 hour later looks up notices how dark it's gone....* Oopsie!

I recommend this game to those who enjoy logic puzzles. However, if you enjoy logic puzzles only when you can quickly find the answer, then you probably won't enjoy this. I have completed 60 of the 100 puzzles and there have been times in almost every one of them when I had to follow a sequence of moves to determine whether a cell could be a certain value (but there is always a logical answer with no guessing required). I find this game to be very enjoyable and well worth the asking price.

Very nice, simple concept and clean, minimalist execution. Clicks on the board are very responsive so you can proceed as fast as your wits allows. Recommended for fans of the minesweeper/hexcells puzzle varieties, although this one would probably count more as an entry level challenge (not to say that later levels are actually walks in the park!).

The puzzle mechanics are really good, but the game built around them would be much improved with some additional/more complicated features. Other than the error check, these puzzles could be printed out and done on paper (with pencil/rubber) without loosing anything, and I think that shows some wasted potential. Toolbox - I think the game should give a few pointers showing some of the rules that need to be learned to even attempt the harder puzzles. Such as: two 1's cannot connect diagonally unless one is at the edge. Coloured lines - I really struggle to see if I'm about to close a large loop on the bigger puzzles. I'd like there to be an option of colouring lines so that all connected lines became a single colour. I think any line more than 10 links long should become a distinct colour (or that this should be an option to enable). Show Mistake - this is actually too powerful. I think it would be much better if it showed all broken rules (nodes with incorrect numbers of connection...

Cool and simple puzzle

This is a fun collection of Gokigen Naname (Slant) type puzzles which should be quite enjoyable for anyone who enjoys logic puzzle games. There's 100 of them, all of which are available from the start of the game, so if you get stuck on one, you can always just skip forward a bit, if you like. The game's definitely worth it for the asking price. The Linux version worked like a charm, too! Apart from simply figuring out the various axiomatic deductions throughout the game (I hadn't played this particular kind of puzzle before, so it was new to me), the levels are all more or less the same -- there won't be new mechanics or anything like that. Mostly the levels just get bigger as you progress through. The difficulty curve is a little bit sporadic; I found that I'd get stuck on one for a little while but then blow right through the next few. A few quality-of-life improvements wouldn't go amiss, such as maybe having an alternate-color "testing" mode where you could more easily test ...

Playing through Simply Puzzles: Junctions was fun for me. It is a minimalistic numbers puzzle game and as such is very reminiscent of Tametsi and the Hexcells series even though its puzzles are not as unique and rather generic. Yet there has not been another similar game in quite a while that was able to keep my attention all the way through to the end. Junctions puzzles consist of a board with a rectangular grid and some numbers on the grid junctions which tell you how many lines have to touch that number. Each square of the grid has to be filled with a diagonal line so obviously there are only two options to fill any given square. On top of that simple rule the player is not allowed to form any given shape with the lines on the board, i.e. there must not be a closed "loop" of lines. Finally and most importantly, none of the puzzles require any guessing! What intriguied me about the game was exploriong all the different facets of "starting clues". Aside form the obvious clues, e.g. ...

Excellent little puzzle game! Well worth the $2! I'd LOVE if there were user-made puzzles so I could keep playing, but that is a considerable amount of work on the back end that I don't expect at this price point.

Fun little logic puzzle game, great to play while listening to an audiobook or watching some videos.

a simple to learn but hard to master puzzle game. Nothing more, nothing less. They are not kidding with the title, the game is REALLY simple to learn. Simpler than say sudoku, even simpler than minesweeper, but with similar levels of complexity when you get really into it. The game has 100 levels for you that start of pretty small that you can do in about 5 minutes, to eventually ballooning to puzzles that take 30 minutes or longer. As far as I could tell you really did not need to ever guess, but there were definitely some puzzles where it felt like you had to guess. I would rate the medium levels very highly, being enjoyable to figure out but not too easy, but the higher levels tended to drag. Maybe you can figure out a better way, but I found myself needing to try a long branch of possibilities just to eliminate a single move that really ground the game to a halt. The game is also very bare bones, with simple looks and sounds, but the game is cheap. So not really a complaint but d...