The Mecury News article mentions Nurikabe. A Nurikabe solver should be an interesting programming exercise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurikabe http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/nurikabe/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:33 Subject: [Jchat] Sudoku To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > Thomas Snyder, a fellow from Palo Alto, recently won the World > Sudoku > Championship in India. > > http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9202513 > > The video interview there is nice. One of the puzzles was: > > Goa > 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 > 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 > 0 8 4 0 0 7 0 0 1 > 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 0 > 5 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 > 9 0 0 1 0 0 5 3 0 > 0 2 5 0 0 8 0 0 6 > 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 8 5 > 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 > > Using Roger's sudoku verb - > > timex 'sudoku Goa' > 0.00210184 25792 > > Now 2 milliseconds is a lot faster than the Champ - but I'm very > impressed that he could do it in 2 minutes and 26 seconds. In > the > video, Thomas points out that computer generated puzzles tend to > have > less charm than "hand set" ones - e.g. in the case of puzzle Gao > (which is the city in India where the competition was held), so > named > because of the pattern - > > ' *'{~*Goa > ** > * * > ** * * > * ** > * ** > * * ** > ** * * > **** > * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
