Isn't it more about figuring out each opponent's puzzle and punch pattern? We wouldn't go so far as to call it a puzzle game, but there is definitely a puzzle element involved in how you defeat ...

According to the post, a dedicated group of people own old commercial knitting machines, and with some work, they can use archived punch cards with patterns that predate the computerized world.

Each would give off a sort of sign that let you know what kind of punch might be coming up, and they all dealt damage in specific patterns. The bouts were quickly paced and a whole lot of fun ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery ... controlled the threads raised in producing the pattern. Versions of the Jacquard loom were adopted only in France but Great Britain ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...