A playtest. Three rounds, each with a different hidden taste. Roughly ten minutes.
How it works
Gribble has a secret rule about what makes a good plate. You draw a meal on the 8×8 grid;
Gribble scores it 0–100 and tells you nothing else — no hints, no per-cell feedback.
Reach 95 and you've cracked it. You get twelve meals per round.
The kinds of rule Gribble can have are listed below and are fair game to
consult at any time. Which one it picked is the puzzle. Please don't look at the page source —
that spoils it, and spoils the data.
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0 cells lit
12 meals left
Scores so far
Draw a plate, then serve it.
Tastes Gribble can have
Public by design. Today's is one of these — possibly two of them blended,
with one mattering more.
count — about N lit cells, position irrelevant
symmetry — mirror, half-turn, or either diagonal
position — a half, the middle 4×4, or the outer ring
connectivity — one connected blob, no islands
shape — a solid rectangle or line, anywhere
neighbours — every lit cell touching exactly k others
Thank you — that's the playtest
Copy the block below and send it back. It contains scores only: no personal data, nothing
about you, nothing you didn't just see on screen.
One question worth answering in your reply, in your own
words: how would you describe what you were doing?