From: Dr Balwinder S Dheeman Date: 2005-04-25T10:44:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Idea for Ruby Quiz - Su Doku solver On 04/23/2005 07:41 PM, Bill Guindon wrote: > On 4/23/05, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > >>Douglas Livingstone writes: >> >> >>>On 4/23/05, Lyndon Samson 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. I have started to develop a SuDoku game in Ruby; experts are welcome to write parts of it in GTK+ Ruby bindings. Have a look at http://rafb.net/paste/results/ZmByjo93.html -- Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 CLLO (Chief Linux Learning Officer) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Anu's Linux@HOME Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix More: http://anu.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/