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Digits
Hit the target numbers with six numbers and four operations.
What: I led game design and helped build this New York Times math puzzle.
When: 2021, 2023
Skills: Game Design, Prototyping, Puzzle Content Creation, JavaScript, Figma
Overview
In this daily math puzzle, there are 5 levels each day. In each level players are given six numbers they may combine with operations to reach a target number.
Digits ran as a beta game twice: Once in 2021, and once in 2023.
I was responsible for the engineering of this project in its 2021 version. The game was played by hundreds of thousands while it was in beta.

Read more about Digits here.

Gameplay

The game also included a reveal functionality:

Old Concepts

Some old presentations of this game exploring a scale balancing idea: