Puzzle Programmer

Puzzle Programmer is a logic puzzle game where your best ideas become tools. When solving a puzzle by hand, your brain is constantly matching patterns and making logical deductions based on those patterns. Puzzle Programmer encourages you to encode your deductions into routines: repeatable actions that the game can run for you when a given pattern appears in the puzzle. Then you can sit back and watch your routines work through new puzzles automatically, using the patterns that you described, and tune them to solve each board as efficiently as possible.

Solve by hand

Nineteen puzzle types and more than 250 puzzles, from gentle introductions to expert boards. Every puzzle type is open from the start, and hints, notes, highlights, undo and full keyboard play are there when you want them.

Automate

Spotted a pattern? Build it as a routine, and watch as the puzzle solves itself using your automation rules!

Using the routine editor, describe what pattern to match, and what to do when the pattern appears. Various debugging tools are included for your convenience. For example, the board lights up the moves your routine would make before you save it. Every routine you write works on every puzzle of that type.

Make it efficient

Every check a routine makes costs cycles, and each puzzle has a par to beat. The run report shows where your cycles went, so you can reorder, refine or rewrite your routines in pursuit of gold medals and under-par stars. Each puzzle type's page shows which of its puzzles your routines can already solve on their own.

Harder puzzles, sharper ideas

Later puzzles call for cleverer techniques. Build more complex routines to beat the par score on these, or make use of the "assumptions" mechanic: assume a value, keep running your routines, and eliminate the assumed value as a possibility if the assumption leads to an invalid board state.

A new puzzle every day

The daily puzzle is the same for every player and rotates between Number Grid, Binary Grid and Inequality Grid. Keep a streak going, or catch up on earlier days in the Daily Vault. Compete on the Daily Leaderboard to see whose routines are the most efficient!

Make your own

In the Workshop, you can design puzzles of your own and share them with the community! You can even create new puzzle types with unique rulesets. Tooling is included to check whether a puzzle has exactly one solution.

Features

• 19 puzzle types and more than 250 puzzles, all open from the start
  
• A routine editor you build phrase by phrase, with a live preview on the board
  
• Cycle scores, par targets, medals and under-par stars
  
• A daily puzzle shared by every player, with an archive of earlier days
  
• A Workshop for your own puzzles and puzzle types
  
• Hints, notes, highlights, undo and full keyboard play
  
• A 56-song soundtrack