Thank you for your comprehensive feedback.
The hint is meant to be kinda like those video game loading screen tips? It's not supposed to be super useful, but ig guide the player through the gameplay. Good to keep note of that though.
- and yes, I try to design levels where one counter has multiple uses and I wanted a sort of thing where some counters can only be swapped with another group of counters and another counter can be swapped with a different group by encorporating counters of different colors to try to make the game more challenging. Didn't have enough time in the end and ultimately wasn't able to balance a lot of the levels and make them exactly to how I envisioned it.
Your comments are very helpful and meaningful. Thankyou for taking your time to play my game and leave feedback! I hope that, overlooking these areas to improve upon, you still enjoyed the game overall and had a fun time completing the puzzle :)