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v.1.0.3.5 - change to "Matchsticks"

Some thoughts on the design of "Matchsticks":

The idea of this puzzle was to figure out you had to go outside the maze, then to figure out what combination worked.

A number of players have been confused by the presentation of the puzzle, and why going out the top doesn't work.

The idea was that the blue line indicated you couldn't go that way... but it wasn't sufficient. I thought about how I might better indicate it, while keeping the "almost unique" nature of the puzzle.

In the end, I put a cut on the top of the puzzle. This is unusual, as no other puzzle has a cut. Hopefully it indicates something unusual about going out of the top and that it is not possible (because you would exit the puzzle).

My apologies for the confusion.

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