Intro puzzles

Hi folks,

I'm pleased to announce that I've just uploaded a new build of Pentomancy that adds Intro Puzzles: a set of four small handcrafted 5x5 tutorial puzzles intended to serve as a gentler introduction to the deduction patterns of the game. The intro puzzles start with the simplest deduction patterns and then ramp up to introduce some less obvious ones.

The intro puzzles are all played in "hard mode", so that exploring any tile that wasn't provably safe to explore, given your current information, will be fatal. Making the intro puzzles play in "hard mode" may be counterintuitive, but the goal is to reduce the chance of "accidentally" clearing an intro puzzle by a lucky guess without actually learning what it was supposed to teach you.

There are a few more UI improvements I alluded to in my previous post that I might be pushing out over the next few weeks, but this felt like the highest-priority task so I wanted to upload it as soon as I had a workable build for it.

If you don't want to have the new "intro puzzles" button clogging up the interface, especially once you're done with the puzzles, it can be hidden from the Options menu.

I hope you enjoy!