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Clarify that difficulty does not increase forever as you increase
the expansion factor...

[originally from svn r4465]

--- a/puzzles.but

+++ b/puzzles.but

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

 reserved. You may distribute this documentation under the MIT licence.

 See \k{licence} for the licence text in full.

-\versionid $Id: puzzles.but,v 1.2 2004/08/16 12:42:11 simon Exp $

+\versionid $Id: puzzles.but,v 1.3 2004/08/16 13:17:40 simon Exp $

 \C{intro} Introduction

@@ -423,9 +423,11 @@

 size in each dimension, and will be expanded to its full size

 without adding any more rectangles.

-Setting a high expansion factor tends to make the game more

-difficult, and also rewards a less deductive and more intuitive

-playing style.

+Setting an expansion factor of around 0.5 tends to make the game

+more difficult, and also (in my experience) rewards a less deductive

+and more intuitive playing style. If you set it \e{too} high,

+though, the game simply cannot generate more than a few rectangles

+to cover the entire grid, and the game becomes trivial.

 \H{rectangles-cmdline} \I{command line, for Rectangles}Additional

 command-line configuration