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Level 47: Din Don Dan harder than Deep Blue;)
It's very easy if you've played rhythm games before, like Stepmania or osu!mania. I noticed that the music was very desynced, and playing with arrows is really hard on a laptop, so I remapped arrows to DF JK (how I played in osu!mania), and easily passed it (97% acc) without sound on the first try.
After struggling for a while I gave my phone to my daughter who solved it with 98% accuracy in 2 minutes.
The progression in difficulty is great, really hooks you then ramps up
I couldn‘t get past 4. Either Neal or I don‘t know our vegetables.
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Ironically, by the end it’s easier to make a bot solve it than do it the human way
Really fun and creative! Currently stuck at 17 (draw a circle) because I'm using a laptop in a car :(
It’s also very difficult on a trackball :/
Gave up at 33, the brands one. That's really cute.
It crashed for me at level 7, then restarting level 2 had some bug, so I gave up. Shame.
I gave up at the vegetable robot check (number 4). Pretty difficult!
The facial exam (emotions) was quite interesting, although not very accurate, I had to spend over 1 minute on some of the emotions. At least it's powered by a very tiny ML model that runs locally in the browser, powered by https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js

> The face expression recognition model is lightweight, fast and provides reasonable accuracy. The model has a size of roughly 310kb and it employs depthwise separable convolutions and densely connected blocks. It has been trained on a variety of images from publicly available datasets as well as images scraped from the web. Note, that wearing glasses might decrease the accuracy of the prediction results.

Stuck on level 11. What is Waldo? Should I fail this level to prove I am not a robot?
How do I solve level 7? It wants me to select stop signs and bikes from a bunch of letters.
I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to try all the floors close to 64 (considering the topmost one below the tower was 86). I really didn't have the patience for that, especially the possibility of missing to mark an overflowing pixel line, etc.

Also, I hit a bug at the AI challenge which prevented me to pass it. So I had to spent at least 5-6 more tries to pass it.[2]

Fun, but wouldn't go near it again :)

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l

Is there something I am missing for level 6? Tic-Tac-Toe is not winnable if I don't start first.

Edit: never mind. turn off dark reader if you have the same problem.

Happy to stop on the panorama level, 48 levels? Jesus!
I got stuck at the level where it asked me this:

"You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"

Excellent! I had to give up at the Waldo level, impossible on mobile.
I always admire the level of effort Neal puts into his creations. Bravo!
I’d like to see browser agent modes publish their scores on this. Definitely the next great benchmark
I got to 30 before I called it. Been too long since I’ve done sliding-tile puzzles to remember the algorithms.
Can't get past level 2 with Firefox 78 ESR. "Select all the squares with a Stop Sign", but no squares for selecting show up, so there's nothing to select. Unless I miss a joke somewhere in there?
I couldn't get past level 3? It never shows any text in the box
Stuck at level 4. "Everything except Mr. Potatohead is a vegetable" is the truth but not accepted. Apparently its some arbitrary definition of "vegetable"
level 3 gives me a blank white board with a single short line in a corner...