Building comparison
head to head
Mario's Super PicrossvsPortal
Portal asks more than Mario's Super Picross, and the gap is execution.
Mario's Super Picross
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Pure logical deduction - each nonogram is fully solvable from its number clues.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Mario's Super Picross leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Mario's Super PicrossPortal
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 4
Portal leans clearly harder on execution.
Mario's Super Picross
Marking cells has no speed pressure worth naming
Portal
Portal placement timing modest.
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario's Super Picross
A logic grid cannot adapt to you
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance1 vs 0
Mario's Super Picross leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Mario's Super Picross
The hidden picture is fully derivable from the clues
Portal
Deterministic chambers; no randomness.
Optimization8 vs 8
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario's Super Picross
Pure logical deduction - every puzzle is literally solvable
Portal
Pure puzzle-solving optimization.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.