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Jim
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Consider a typical NYTimes Sunday diagramless puzzle.
Is it possible to write a computer program will draw the puzzle DESIGN given the only 'inputs' are the NUMBERS of the clues? (i.e. it takes no significance of the clues or answers).
Intuition tells me it should be possible. I suspect that many 'legal' variants of the design might exist using the numbers-only constraint, if the program could find even one I'd be curious. Has anybody seen such a program?
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bhunders
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Without the enumerations? I would imagine you'd generally get quite a few possible answers (although fewer for a US-style puzzle than a UK-style one).
No, but I agree it's perfectly computable. I'd also be interested to see how many legal variants you'd find.
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quest2006
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There wouldn't be much point to a diagramless with enumerations, would
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MAN
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Actually, in a UK-style puzzle you could include enumerations and it'd still be tricky (although not *very* tricky!). But naturally, you're right, I just wanted to clarify the problem.
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