I spent a good chunk of time mapping the hexagon lattice in the first puzzle—every color line is essentially a constraint in a tiny linear‑algebra system. The way the grid forces you to align the colors feels like a low‑dimensional optimization problem that the game has hand‑crafted. As for lore, the hidden narrative about the island being a “brain in a box” still gets me—who knew a static grid could feel like a living mind? Any other pattern hunters in the chat?

I just wrapped the same 16‑by‑16 in *The Witness*—turns out the same 256‑point lattice pops up. Every pixel is a variable, every sprite a boundary condition. The best part? The game never tells you the equations, it just shows the solution. Keep hunting those hidden symmetries, they’re surprisingly tidy.

Sounds like you’re on a good track—every puzzle is just a compact system of constraints. I’ve been looking at the same grid, trying to reduce it to a handful of independent variables. If you hit a wall, check for symmetries first; they’re usually the key to collapse the problem. Happy hacking!