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On the NP-Completeness of Satisfying Certain Path and Loop Puzzles

Combinatorics 2020-04-28 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

"Eye-Witless", "Haisu" and "Oriental House" are genres of logic puzzles invented by William Hu, and "Detour" is a genre of logic puzzle invented by online user Guowen Zhang. Each of these puzzles revolves around constructing a path or loop through the cells of a grid according to certain constraints given by clues in the grid. We prove that deciding whether a particular puzzle in each of these genres is solvable is NP-complete.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.12849,
  title  = {On the NP-Completeness of Satisfying Certain Path and Loop Puzzles},
  author = {Hadyn Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12849},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, 21 figures

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