Puzzleicious

[ciphergoth]

I had a lovely Christmas with spikeylady, some_fox, buttonmeup, yerbury and family.

I got given a "Tantrix" puzzle for Christmas as a stocking present. It contains 10 hexagonal tiles; you have to lay the tiles out to create a loop of one colour such that all the edges match up.

Actually solving the puzzles quickly lost my interest, so instead I wrote a program to solve them. Then I got interested in making a nice display of the results. I've now found all 2706 solutions to the 12 puzzles that form part of the set.



For those interested, the solver is in Python, and uses Cairo for drawing.

Comments

Tantrix

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Tchah - they had that in the castle we were in this week and I'd got all of them up to 9, but not the 10 one!

Just a minute - your pic there doesn't have a 4th colour which appears on the last 3 tiles - are you sure you've replicated the puzzle accurately?

Re: Tantrix

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

yes, my puzzle only has three colours on all the tiles. I've constructed the answers with the real tiles so I'm pretty sure I have them right - down to which colours occlude which on each tile :-)

But I could extend it to do the other puzzles... :-)