Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver righto.com 12 points by chmaynard 11 hours ago
kens 11 hours ago Author here if anyone has questions. I was inspired to look at constraint solvers by the recent HN discussion "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695
treesknees 9 hours ago This is excellent. I play each day, and I started to wonder if the puzzles had multiple solutions. I wouldn’t have guessed 384 solutions however!
Author here if anyone has questions. I was inspired to look at constraint solvers by the recent HN discussion "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695
This is excellent. I play each day, and I started to wonder if the puzzles had multiple solutions. I wouldn’t have guessed 384 solutions however!