MAKE YOUR NUMBER
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Free.
MAKE YOUR NUMBER is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
A deduction game whose every case is generated, and then proven, before you ever see it. Free, in your browser, no account, no install. You keep a lighthouse on a bad coast. Six vessels pass in the dark and each one is hiding what she is. You learn what you learn from where you point the lamp, because the beam lights one arc at a time and the haar takes the rest.
Make your number is what a ship does when she identifies herself by hoisting her code letters. Your job is to make theirs. The loop A night is a set of berths and a set of categories: rig, cargo, home port, and the two flags she flies as her number. Every category is a permutation across the berths, so exactly one vessel is the barque, exactly one is carrying salt, exactly one is out of Whitby.
You have a fixed number of sweeps. Train the lamp on a bearing, sweep it, and whatever is out there writes you one line in the log: "the one carrying lime was the ketch", "there were three vessels between the Appledore boat and the vessel flying QH." The bearing board tells you which bearings are holding something. It never tells you what. Point the lamp at an empty bearing and you have spent a sweep for nothing.
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