My goodness, you couldn't be more wrong (not that that's surprising).
First, that isn't a game but a mathematical puzzle about a game. Not exactly a subtle difference but I guess beyond your ken.
Second, I've found from past experience that working on those puzzles is very worthwhile from a learning point of view even to the point of spending many hours. And similarly I've learned that reading the rest of an article about scientific matters where the authors shows fundamental ignorance of science will not be instructive.
Third, I see it's been quite some time since you read my post but you haven't posted a solution to the problem I linked. If I'm a dim bulb and could solve it a few hours, what does that make you? And this one doesn't even require much out-of-the-box thinking.
Three hours plus and counting. Not stuck are you?