Steam News18 February 20264mo ago

Why Quadruzzle is currently broken

FUTURE OF QUADRUZZLE What happed to the game: I would like to address those that purchased Quadruzzle. The game was originally released as a daily puzzle solver.

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addedWhat happed to the game:I would like to address those that purchased Quadruzzle. The game was originally released as a daily puzzle solver. Every day at midnight you would get a new puzzle to solve. This required a server to house the puzzle data, and was only uploaded to the server 24hr in advance. This was a security measure I took to make sure that no one would cheat and solve the puzzles all at once. Originally the game was designed with X amount of puzzles. Well, it appears that someone figured out how to cheat the system and get perfect scores on all the puzzles. Also a few were able to cheat achievements as well and give themselves achievements that were impossible to obtain. ( hard to solve 360 puzzles in half a year when you only get one a day ). I forgot the axiom of game design that you can never stop hackers and cheaters, its always a losing proposition. Make games for those honest gamers, and do your best to punish the rest, not everyone out of frustration.

changedMy embarrassment and shame:I'm not going to lie. I was so disheartened that I basically abandoned the game entirely, and shut down the puzzle data server. So for those that opened that app all you had access to was the offline puzzle. For those few that purchased the game and played honestly I apologize. I have had a few people contact the support email and let me know the game was down. Its for you that I have decided to fix the issues, ban the cheaters, and totally rework of the game.

addedNew puzzle type, the 8 puzzleThe newly added puzzle type will be the 8 puzzle. Instead of 3 words with 4 letters and one word with 3 letters. The 8 puzzle is 2 words with 3 letters and one word with 2 letters. They will also ramp in difficulty the same way that the 15 puzzles do. For example:

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addedI would like to address those that purchased Quadruzzle. The game was originally released as a daily puzzle solver. Every day at midnight you would get a new puzzle to solve. This required a server to house the puzzle data, and was only uploaded to the server 24hr in advance. This was a security measure I took to make sure that no one would cheat and solve the puzzles all at once. Originally the game was designed with X amount of puzzles. Well, it appears that someone figured out how to cheat the system and get perfect scores on all the puzzles. Also a few were able to cheat achievements as well and give themselves achievements that were impossible to obtain. ( hard to solve 360 puzzles in half a year when you only get one a day ). I forgot the axiom of game design that you can never stop hackers and cheaters, its always a losing proposition. Make games for those honest gamers, and do your best to punish the rest, not everyone out of frustration.

changedI'm not going to lie. I was so disheartened that I basically abandoned the game entirely, and shut down the puzzle data server. So for those that opened that app all you had access to was the offline puzzle. For those few that purchased the game and played honestly I apologize. I have had a few people contact the support email and let me know the game was down. Its for you that I have decided to fix the issues, ban the cheaters, and totally rework of the game.

addedThe newly added puzzle type will be the 8 puzzle. Instead of 3 words with 4 letters and one word with 3 letters. The 8 puzzle is 2 words with 3 letters and one word with 2 letters. They will also ramp in difficulty the same way that the 15 puzzles do. For example:

FUTURE OF QUADRUZZLE

What happed to the game:

I would like to address those that purchased Quadruzzle. The game was originally released as a daily puzzle solver. Every day at midnight you would get a new puzzle to solve. This required a server to house the puzzle data, and was only uploaded to the server 24hr in advance. This was a security measure I took to make sure that no one would cheat and solve the puzzles all at once. Originally the game was designed with X amount of puzzles. Well, it appears that someone figured out how to cheat the system and get perfect scores on all the puzzles. Also a few were able to cheat achievements as well and give themselves achievements that were impossible to obtain. ( hard to solve 360 puzzles in half a year when you only get one a day ). I forgot the axiom of game design that you can never stop hackers and cheaters, its always a losing proposition. Make games for those honest gamers, and do your best to punish the rest, not everyone out of frustration.

My embarrassment and shame:

I'm not going to lie. I was so disheartened that I basically abandoned the game entirely, and shut down the puzzle data server. So for those that opened that app all you had access to was the offline puzzle. For those few that purchased the game and played honestly I apologize. I have had a few people contact the support email and let me know the game was down. Its for you that I have decided to fix the issues, ban the cheaters, and totally rework of the game.

What to expect moving forward:

The game is getting a major rework from the ground up under the hood. The core game will not change. In fact to those that have played it, except for the menu system it will look just like it always has with some exceptions.

No more daily puzzle availability

I have made all the puzzles available to play at any time you want. You now can play them in order until you run out of puzzles to solve. That means that you can keep solving puzzles as long as you want, no more waiting for the next day to solve a puzzle. Binge all the puzzles you want.

New puzzle type, the 8 puzzle

The game will be split into 2 puzzle types. The standard puzzles will still be the 15 puzzle you are all used to. Those will ramp in difficulty from easy to hard:

Puzzle #1 ( minimum of 20 moves to solve )
puzzle #45 ( minimum of 64 moves to solve )

The newly added puzzle type will be the 8 puzzle. Instead of 3 words with 4 letters and one word with 3 letters. The 8 puzzle is 2 words with 3 letters and one word with 2 letters. They will also ramp in difficulty the same way that the 15 puzzles do. For example:

Puzzle #1 ( minimum of 6 moves to solve )
Puzzle #127 ( minimum of 31 moves to solve )

Two letter words seem impossible, and yes there are not many of those. But you will find that there are a lot of abbreviated words out there to use. And as stated earlier, all puzzle types are available in the main menu. And they will be clearly marked for the player to see, and make their choice on which to play.

When you have no unsolved puzzles the

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Steam News / 18 February 2026

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