OddThinking

OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game.

I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.

I unnecessarily answer the ambiguity issue in the Circuit Puzzle, in living colour.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples.

These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a “puzzle helper” to help solve them.

In this article, I describe how I wrote some software to tackle the Slitherlinks puzzles.

In response to a few questions, I will attempt to explain the heart of my meta-gaming issue in more detail with an example from Hitori.