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SIRO (Number Place Site Administrator / Number Place Puzzle Creator)

This website "NumberPlaceNet" is provided by SIRO, an operator with over 30 years of experience with Number Place.

I was previously involved in FLASH game production and have extensive experience in puzzle and game development.

Currently, I work as a programmer in web application development, maintaining an environment that consistently provides high-quality daily Number Place puzzles.

This website (number-place.net) is an independent project and has no affiliation with any other websites with similar domain names.

Design Philosophy and What I Value

A Number Place puzzle is, at its core, a "quiet time to face yourself."
As a programmer, I want to protect that time of immersion even on the internet. To that end, I have implemented the following technical approaches on this site:

• Optimization for "Undisturbed Thinking": The "comfort" of solving puzzles is directly linked to site responsiveness. I am dedicated to reducing every kilobyte of resources and optimizing processing speed down to the millisecond. I continue to make adjustments so that you can experience the "speed of solving a paper puzzle" from anywhere in the world, on any device.
• Privacy through "Non-possession": Your play progress and settings are designed to be stored securely only on your own device (browser), not on our server. This physically eliminates the feeling of being "watched" and is my sincere way of allowing you to focus purely on the puzzles.
• A Sincere Approach to Global Rules: Currently, I am aiming to expand this site to 20 languages. It is no easy task to face the complex laws and privacy protections of each country alone and implement them into the code. I often feel my own limitations, but I do my best every day to ensure that anyone who visits feels this is a "safe and clean place."

Given the current structure of the internet, it is difficult to perfectly balance all of these aspects, and there may be shortcomings.
Nevertheless, I want to make the web—the place that raised me since the FLASH era—something simpler and more trustworthy.
With this "stubbornly honest" dedication, I continue to refine every puzzle board and every line of code.
Please enjoy the "satisfaction of solving" that AI cannot fully replicate, and this "quiet time" protected by technology.