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Really enjoyed solving this! It was cool realising that each rule only needed to apply to a portion of the map - you’re not trying to make the “perfect map”, just a map that can satisfy the artifact in at least one location.

I’m curious about the decision to snap the artifact to a half-grid, it sort of acts like an additional rule the player needs to understand - “rules don’t apply to a row/column if the artifact is exactly aligned with that row/column”.

Knowledge of this is required to solve the puzzle, because the top/bottom rules can’t both be satisfied unless you “ignore” the middle row for both. Sort of interesting!

Sorry for the ramble, loved the puzzle 😄

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Thank you!
The decision to snap the Artifact to a half-grid was more of an aesthetic choice made early in development as it made it feel more like you are placing the Artifact on top of the map instead of it being restricted by the map itself and acting like a map piece. It being part of the puzzle was completely by accident as a result of the ruleset I ended up with :)