(In my case a Jigsaw hexadoku, but then with a design and missing some cells. If you do it right then it should be a learning path for yourself where become a better developer, by learning/discovering new algorithms/design patterns.Ī motivation to build a variant solver from scratch is when you see it in a magazine and there is no available solver that can solve it. There are unlimited possible variants so you can always keep extending, but what use has it when it will never be used.įinding and displaying logic would be nice to discover unknown strategies in the hardest sudokus.

Easy input/design/pasting from image/solving does not care about difficult logic/does not care about speed. Largest group only wants to solve basic puzzles for magazines, but those you probably don't find on this forum. A program that with easy pasting and displaying all logic, for comparing while developing. Some people also want to learn/build a solver A program that gives hints on where to find them (BERT like algorithm should find every possible logic) A program where you can input your variant and a generator that can generate with a rating.Īnd there are people who like to research difficult/unknown strategies There are some people here that like to do manual solving on variants, also for newspaper and games. horybori Posts: 14 Joined: 26 February 2016 I really wanted to tell somebody my feelings. Hard to accept, but I can understand it too. Currently, not doing anything throttles every other feeling inside me.Īs a final note, I feel that nobody-apart from me-is interested in such software. On the one hand, I would like to do something that nobody never really did before (as I know, that's why I started), but on the other hand I don't want to waste my time and I know after a short time it would become super boring (as before). It's just not too satisfying, not even speaking about how much work hour I killed/would kill in it. I open the program, I type in the puzzle, it solves it in a half eye-blink. 'Oh, I have this program that can solve this fancy puzzle here.' - Me. Now, I'm fell in love with Sudokus again, but unfortunately, the only thing I can think about now is that: I just can't code if I know it's useless. I realized that nobody is really interested in it and I felt that it's just a waste of time. I feel exactly like this, that's why I stopped developing years ago. Otherwise you will be seriously disappointed, frustrated, and you will feel like you are wasting your time with the Sudoku community if you create a solver for them and not for yourself.īut that is just my opinion and findings after many years of Sudoku software development.

SudoKai wrote:It would be best to create a Universal Sudoku Solver mainly for yourself and share it with everyone else as time goes on (just like me).

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