Black Box Machines: Puzzles 7 and 8

Just like busses, you wait for ages, then two turn up at once. Here are Puzzles 7 and 8. The similarities with Puzzle 6 / 6a are entirely intentional.

Email or DM me your simple-as-possible description of what it's doing. If it's close to reasonable, I'll send out a kudos tweet to the world. I'll stop after a few.

You'll note that there is a new "Camera" icon. This isn't an intentional part of the puzzle (though I expect there's an unexpected interaction with something in Puzzle 8). I've added a facility that I'll be using at my upcoming EuroSTAR tutorial: it lets you have a different perspective on what you've been doing. I'd be delighted to hear your views and discoveries. It'll need some improvement before it hits primetime, and I don't expect to get it right without your help.

Cheers -
James




Here's a big Puzzle 7 and a big Puzzle 8, if you prefer.

New Black Box Machine – Puzzle 6a

Puzzle 6 seems to have been a bit "easy" for some.

Here, then, is Puzzle 6a. Two more buttons.

Again, email or DM me your simple-as-possible description of what it's doing. If it's right close to reasonable, I'll send out a kudos tweet to the world. I'll stop after a few. Note: I won't be online much over the next few days.

Puzzle 6 had good descriptions from David Greenlees (@MartialTester, martialtester.wordpress.com), Jahira Banu (@ajbanu), and Vince Seese.

My Exploratory Testing Workshop in the Netherlands went rather well. I'm wondering where to do the next, and I'm considering June in Eastern Europe or July in London or Oxford. If you want to tell me where to go next (and get a hefty discount when registration opens), tell me over here.

 Cheers - James


Here's a big one, if you prefer.

New Black Box machine (Puzzle 6)

I've cobbled together a new black box machine, for your amusement.

If you email or DM me your simple-as-possible description of what it's doing, and if it's right, I'll send out a kudos tweet to the world. I'll stop after a few.

Report bugs widely, but please include me on their distribution. I know of at least three: one with fonts, another on resize, and the differing UI on the logo/? buttons.

Here's a big one, if you prefer.

I think I may have finally got far enough with the transition to AS3 (which may make it simpler to port to HTML5).

If you like this, get the last seat on my Amsterdam workshop. Orange button, top left of the blog.

Cheers - James

P.S. Apologies for the formatting problems which I assume will turn up here. MacJournal's decided to change how it blogs, so I'm using Blogger directly. Yikes. Formatting problems, default behaviour troubles, "can't save" warnings. Shocker.