I'm not going to pretend to be the smartest person ever, but I pride myself on my intelligence. I notice patterns quickly and master certain games like minesweeper quickly.
However, this game has no patterns that I have been able to detect. The few clues we've been given in the description, are vague at best, and even at times contradictory to the solved puzzle. No diagonals? almost every puzzle has one.

It's okay once you figure out how to play, but you REALLY need to make better instructions and preferably a tutorial as well.

I can tell a lot of math and work went into this,
however,
i think you should focus on games that are fun, and that people actually would like to play.\

the tutorial / explanation was so hard to understand, needs better tutorial.

Not much introduction I don't know how to play.