Hint System and Puzzle Assistance

[Mkalbani]

Location: Backend Core - Game Engine
Labels: backend, hints, puzzle-assistance
Estimated Time: 7 hours
Difficulty: Medium

Description

Implement progressive hint system with cost management and fairness controls.

Tasks

• Design hint structure
• Implement hint generation
• Add progressive hints (easy to hard)
• Create hint cost system
• Implement hint caching
• Add hint analytics
• Create hint requests tracking
• Write comprehensive tests
• Implement hint limits
• Add hint effectiveness tracking

Acceptance Criteria

• Hints progressively helpful
• Costs prevent abuse
• Analytics show usage
• Limits enforced fairly
• Performance optimized
• All tests pass

[shobhamerabacha-star]

Hi maintainers,

I would love to take this on. My planned approach:

• Build out the handlers for Hint System and Puzzle Assistance ensuring proper HTTP status codes and error propagation.
• Cover route handlers with automated endpoint integration tests.

Excited to work on this—please assign to me and I will submit a clean PR shortly!