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Hence (https://hencegame.com) is a modern twist on Einstein's puzzle, with fun picture clues instead of text. It's a free online daily puzzle, the same for everyone, where every puzzle is always solvable by pure deduction with no guessing. I launched it October 5. The hardest part was the graphics, making each picture clue unique enough that you recognize it immediately and know what category it's from, even at small sizes. Easier said than done.

Every puzzle is run through a verifier first to make sure it is solvable without any guessing, just by pure logic, so there is always a next step to find, which is what makes it feel so rewarding. There's a hint system to help and it works really well if I do say so myself . No account needed to play.

From what I've been hearing so far, the people who have checked it out are enjoying it and can't wait for tomorrow's puzzle, so that's a good sign. I'd love to hear how the difficulty feels, and whether the pictures read clearly.

Great tool, been using it for a while now. The only issue I have with it is that there is no way to configure it so that saved links don't open in a new tab. So the current flow when I want to go to a site I saved is: open a new tab, click on the link, it opens in a new tab, then I have to go back to the previous tab and close it.

If you could add an option in the settings to just have all links open in the same tab, would be great.

We won't stand for this :) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1482913141943660/

I posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7225103

I uploaded a fix for that. Thanks.

In any case just use the beta code, no need for the waiting list you, you're in already :)

BTW: you don't have to sign up to the waiting list, you already have a beta code. Click on "Got a beta invite code? Sign up with it!" and use the beta code I posted.

Shit, checking

I created TalkSparks because I was fed up with having to go to a bunch of different forums everyday in order to follow different things that I'm interested in.

The concept is very simple: it's where you can discuss anything you're interested in with other people who are interested in the same things. If you're interested in something, you just follow that category and the news feed aggregates all discussions in that topic (very similar to how Facebook shows you updates about the people you are friends with, only here it's about topics that actually interest you). I've set it up with over 40M different categories so pretty much any topic already exists, which solves the problem of having tons of users creating "groups" or categories about the same thing. If you're interested in Breaking Bad, there is one place to discuss Breaking Bad, not 20 Breaking Bad categories that each have 3 followers and nobody knows which one to post in.

The site is still very young, in closed beta, but I would appreciate feedback from the HN community so here's a beta code you guys can use to sign up.

Just go to http://www.talksparks.com and sign up with the beta code hackernews100

Please share your feedback.

Much appreciated,

Guy

This is so useless that it's awesome! I had no idea that could be done.

Very good analysis and impressive that they can survive with a burn rate of $3.1M - $5.8M per month without additional external funding.

Flipboard is a great app but that valuation seems WAY too high.