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A dad's lost early-2000s puzzle game rebuilt for the web
X-Squares, a puzzle game whose original files were lost, rebuilt from memory as a web game with Claude Code, which also built a puzzle-maker mode.
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X-Squares is a puzzle game from the early 2000s designed by the poster's dad. The original game file had been lost, so they rebuilt it from scratch as a modern web game with Claude Code, with daily, treasure hunt and puzzle modes, and put it on Reddit, where it had over 350 players on its first day.
Claude was "horrible at designing puzzles", producing either impossible ones or trivial ones, because the number of possible tile states is so large. Instead the poster had Claude build a puzzle-maker mode so they could design puzzles themselves by trial and error.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I used Claude to rebuild my dad's lost game and port it to Reddit, getting over 350 players on day oReddit poster: Fringe313Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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