Archives

We included a small Python script that allows you to solve puzzles and create archives (containing puzzles and players.)

To set up a new archive containing a couple of puzzle and a player named player, you can run the script create-archive.sh.

Solving puzzles

# Solves a puzzle given constraints
$ ./pc.py puzzle solve '5;1,1;1,1;1,1;5' '5;1,1;1,1;1,1;5'
xxxxx
x...x
x...x
x...x
xxxxx

You can also store the constraints in a file. The first line contains width and height. Next come the column constraints, then the row constraints.

$ ./pc.py puzzle solve-from-file constraints.txt
..xxx
x...x
x...x
xxx..
xxx..

Given a solution, you can derive the constraints as follows:

.x...
xx.xx
.xxx.
.xxx.
..x..

$ ./pc.py puzzle constraints solution.txt
1;4;3;3;1
1;2,2;3;3;1

Adding from solution in solution.txt:

$ ./pc.py archive add-from-solution archive.zip author solution.txt

Adding from constraints:

$ ./pc.py archive add-from-constraints archive.zip author '3;1,1;3' '3;1,1;3'