From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T23:11:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby Quiz - Su Doku solver

On 4/23/05, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Douglas Livingstone <rampant@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 4/23/05, Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> How the following look?
> >>
> >> From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4469719.stm
> >>
> >
> > How about a Su Doku writer; the Su Doku solver would just be the unit tests :)
> 
> After doing this evil game for an hour or so now, I agree.  I think
> programming a puzzle maker is harder than solving it automatically.
> More useful, too. :-)
> 
> Evil game, beware.

"He is pleased with the global growth of the game, to which he
contributed by taking it from a puzzle book he bought in Tokyo in 1997
and spending six years - "on and off" - writing a computer program
that produces new Su Dokus on the spot."

If somebody does this in 3 days with Ruby, it's probably gonna make
this guy cry.
 
> > Douglas
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
> 
> 

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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)