xoxo 2022.8.3

Balanced diversity solver xoxo to the square.

xoxo

Balanced diversity solver xoxo to the square.

License: MIT

Documentation

User and developer documentation of xoxo.

Bug Tracker

Feature requests and bug reports are bested entered in the todos of xoxo.

Primary Source repository

The primary source repository of xoxo is at sourcehut a collection of tools useful for software development.

Example

Given the input file:

❯ cat test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
O
X
OX   X
 XX
   OO
XXO

for clarity showing the dump to expose the regularity:

❯ xxd -c 7 test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
00000000: 4f20 2020 2020 0a  O     .
00000007: 5820 2020 2020 0a  X     .
0000000e: 4f58 2020 2058 0a  OX   X.
00000015: 2058 5820 2020 0a   XX   .
0000001c: 2020 204f 4f20 0a     OO .
00000023: 5858 4f20 2020 0a  XXO   .

xoxo will try to solve the puzzle in a diverse but balanced way:

❯ xoxo test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
Problem:

,---+---+---+---+---+---,
| O |   |   |   |   |   |  1
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X |   |   |   |   |   |  2
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X |   |   |   | X |  3
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
|   | X | X |   |   |   |  4
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
|   |   |   | O | O |   |  5
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | X | O |   |   |   |  6
*---+---+---+---+---+---*
  1   2   3   4   5   6


Solution:

,---+---+---+---+---+---,
| O | O | X | O | X | X |  1
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | O | O | X | X | O |  2
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X | O | X | O | X |  3
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X | X | O | X | O |  4
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | O | X | O | O | X |  5
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | X | O | X | O | O |  6
*---+---+---+---+---+---*
  1   2   3   4   5   6

More in the usage documentation

Status

Experimental.

Note The default branch is default.