From: "Christoffer Lernö" <lerno@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T07:52:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Housie (#114)

Oops. Missed out the requirement that each column should be filled.  
Embarassing. Sorry about that folks.

/Christoffer

On Feb 18, 2007, at 18:33 , Christoffer Lern� wrote:

> My solution drops the numbers 1-90 into the tickets at random. If  
> there are more than 3 numbers of the same column for a ticket, or  
> it already has 15 numbers then it kicks out one of its other  
> numbers at random. This number is put back to be distributed to  
> some other ticket.
>
> After all the numbers are distributed, each Housie generates itself  
> using the values it has been given. It will add one number at a  
> time to the row with the least amount of numbers. If two rows have  
> the same amount of numbers then their positions will be chosen  
> randomly.
>
> I also included a method to generate a single ticket.
>
> The code got a bit messier than I'd like it, but it avoids brute  
> force-generation and seem to generate tickets quickly.
>