Comments on: Puzzle Quest Solver

By: puzzled

puzzled — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:29:26 +0000

Well, googling OGRE LORD brings you here… and there are solutions to other things…

Might there be a solution for maybe…

The Ogre Lord puzzle?

By: Raspa

Raspa — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:56:24 +0000

Hey, I’m working on a solver aswell. I’m doing this on my freetime, so it might take a while. Currently I’m doing it in java, but maybe i’ll port it to processing to put it in a webpage.

I’m still missing the handling of wildcards and 5xskuls, but if the problem doesn’t have neither, it finishes in about 1-2 seconds. (it doesn’t stop when the solution is found, so that’s the time to search all the solutions space)

I’ll probaby finish the first version, this week or so, and i’ll share it to the world.

Sumrnot, what do you mean by: adaptive cache of about 140,000 positions.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:26:13 +0000

Sumrnot, i’m really interested in your project, please post a link. Ogre’s code works perfectly, but it takes long time filling the text file.

Thanks,

Dave

By: Sumrnot

Sumrnot — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:18:24 +0000

Well, it’s nice to see someone else interested in writing a solver. I’m getting close to releasing a beta (exe only) myself.

Featuring: (drum roll)
– GUI (win 2000,nt,xp) uses MaskBlt Not sure about Vista.
No Linux yet.
– adaptive cache of about 140,000 positions
– preemptive testing to cut down search space
– animation (Dammit,Jim. I’m a programmer. not an artist)

Give me about a week to track down some bugs and finish in-house, and if anyone’s interested I’ll post a link.

By: Morkatron

Morkatron — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:14:35 +0000

Oh and I am using a XP pro OS corporate if that matters…

By: Morkatron

Morkatron — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:13:52 +0000

I too am attempting to use the solver with no luck. I have typed “pqsolver sandworm.pq >>test.txt” at the cmd prompt and I receive the msg “the system cannot execute the specified program” Any suggestions?

Thanks

By: whoozle

whoozle — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:38:30 +0000

troll.pq:

..g..g..
..rmrr..
.gmgmmg.
sgrxyrgs
sybxbbys
bbgmggbb
syrxyrys
syrmyrys

consumes 100% cpu and hang for a long time I’ve successfully solved orclord,orcmage with pqsolver, thanks

By: Arnar Æ

Arnar Æ — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:18:43 +0000

I am trying to use the pqsolver with limited success.

i use command prompt on Win XP and type
“pqsolver sandworm.pq >>test.txt”

but it stalls no error and does not stop until I break it.
Any suggestions?

Reg.
Arnar Æ

By: Ogre

Ogre — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:38:57 +0000

Thanks, Nige! Source and executable have been updated.

By: Nige

Nige — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:51:35 +0000

I’ll try that again

for(y = yc -1; y <= yc + 1; y++)