sudoku-solver 0.1

sudoku_solver

Usage: sudoku_indexes [options] source

Script for solving Sudoku puzzles in an human manner, applying some advanced strategies for solving grids.

If a puzzle cannot be solved with the strategies bundled in the package, the resolution of the puzzle is done by a backtracking method.

Use the --nobacktracking option to disable the backtracking method.

Increasing the verbosity level at 3 (-vvv) will display step by step the solving process.

sudoku_backtrack

Usage: sudoku_backtrack [options] source

Script for solving Sudoku puzzles with the backtracking method only.

Use the --nopreprocessing option to disable the preprocessing methods applied to reduces the number of candidates.

This option is useful on small grids where optimisations are not really needed, but disabling the processings methods on large grid will increase the resolution time.

sudoku_indexes

Usage: sudoku_indexes

Display the cells’s indexes of a Sudoku puzzle, like they are used in the package. Very usefull when developing.

Example 1

123.56.89578139624496872153952381467641.97835387564291719623548864915372235748916

Example 2

004000620760100800000000107000901300230406091001302000903000000006005013042000700

Example 3

1638.5.7.
..8.4..65
..5..7..8
45..82.39
3.1....4.
7........
839.5....
6.42..59.
....93.81

Example 4

3 2 9 | 4 1 . | 7 . .
. . . | . . . | 4 . .
. . 5 | . 2 . | . . .
---------------------
5 . . | . . . | 3 . 6
. 6 . | 7 . 3 | . 9 .
8 . 7 | . . . | . . 2
---------------------
. . . | . 4 . | 8 . .
. . 6 | . . . | . . .
. . 3 | . 7 2 | 9 5 1

Take a look in the datas folder for more examples.