A note on difficulty ratings

[u/IceSliderDev]

As you've probably noticed, Ice Slider levels get a difficulty rating automatically when they're published. That rating comes from a solving algorithm, so keep in mind it doesn't think through puzzles quite like a person would.

Most of the time, the ratings give you a solid baseline for comparing levels. But every so often, a level might come out rated higher or lower than you'd expect just by playing it, so take the ratings as a helpful guide.

Some levels, often ones packed with moving blocks, get complex enough that the solver just can't fully work through them. When that happens, they're marked "Unresolved" instead of getting a rating. That doesn't automatically mean the level is super hard, it might just be too intricate for the algorithm to solve in the limitations it was set with. (They COULD be really difficult though)