Re: kakuro puzzle generator

[hv]

in reply to kakuro puzzle generator

No code, but you may be interested in http://www.menneske.no/kakuro/eng/ which has puzzles that I believe are computer-generated and then hand-edited. It has the interesting variation of offering puzzles in different bases (from 4 to 20), which I haven't seen elsewhere.

For several years I've been a member of Puzzle Japan (sadly due to close down shortly) which has this as one of the types of puzzles (called 'Kakro' there). I have not tried your code, but I have found even the "Super Hard" puzzles generated by menneske to be rather easy and unsatisfying compared to those at PJ - the benefits of (semi-)professional human compilers, and editing. I guess that's unavoidable unless you can at least get a metric for satisfyingness, and I don't know how you do that.

Hugo

[davidj]

I have no satisfiablility built in: no level rating, no guarantee of uniqueness. It just makes sure the game constraints and the parameters passed are met. That being said, building satisfiability into would be a nice challenge. I would just need some ways to measure difficulty, etc.

davidj

[Anonymous Monk]

Nice job on the generator, it take a lot of work to get right. Anyway, no code, but here is a good Kakuro game with uniqueness, different levels: http://www.atksolutions.com/games/kakuro.html