HexaDoku Solver
OK, here's
the story...
Some friends of mine (KSJ
Lichtaart) were convinced I should spend less time
behind my computer and more time with them. So, they
came up with with a bunch of puzzles I need to solve
and tasks that I need to perform.
Each puzzle
solved will bring me to one of the 22 couples that took
part in this conspiracy to keep me away from my beloved
computer. The general idea is that a taks needs to be
performed that will give me the next puzzle which will
lead me to my next friend.
The first
puzzle I got was a so-called Hexadoku. It's much the
same as a Sudoku, but contains a matrix of 4x4 cells,
rather than the Sudoku's 3x3 matrix. The values that
need to be filled in in a Hexadoku are hexadecimal,
i.e. go from 0 to 9 and A to F. Remark that the 0 is
included, which is often forgotten when trying to solve
a Hexadoku.
The Hexadoku
I needed to solve, was the following. After installation
of the software you can find it as KSJLichtaart.txt
in the installation directory.
I guess my
friends were right that I needed to go out more but
I spent a day already solving the puzzle manually. I
soon reckoned it would be more fun and less time consuming
to write a program that solved the Hexadoku for me.
It took me two days to have the program ready and it
took the program 1 hour to solve the puzzle for me.
The Hexadoku
Solver looks as follows:
You can download
and use it at will, but keep in mind this is a quick-and-dirty
program, written for fun only. Of course, no support
is given. If you feel like sending me some Hexadoku
puzzles you've saved with the program, please don't
hesitate to email them to me. I'll add them to the examples
provided with the program and keep your comments intact
(there's a comment section below the puzzle).
The program
is for free. Have fun with it. It can be downloaded
here:is
freeware.
FREE
DOWNLOAD: HexaDocuSolverV1.0.zip
SuDoku Solver
Well, now
that I'm on to it...
In case you
plan on cheating your way out of a Sudoku puzzle, it
wasn't much effort to go from the Hexadoku solver to
a Sudoku solver program. The Sudoku version can be downloaded
here:
FREE
DOWNLOAD: SudokuSolverV1.0.zip
The user interface
is much the same:
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