Here's the gist, the game is a 10 x 14 board made up of 5 different color tiles. The mechanics are you can select any group of 2 or more tiles of the same color that are touching on the horizontal or vertical axis (diagonals do not count). That group will then disappear and all the tiles above will fall down to take their place. If a column is completely empty of tiles any remaining columns of tiles to the right will move to the left to fill in the gap. You win by clearing the board and not leaving any tiles behind.
If there are eligible moves left then keep on picking new moves.If no more eligible moves are found then I check the board to see if I lost or won the game.If game lost then I start over and reset to the original game board layout.
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Going through the possible moves sequentially. Same as the random option but this way I can see some sort of progress it's making. I've tried running this on a spare machine for a few days and it's gotten through 15 million sequences and still not very far along the unknown number of total possible moves.
So I guess my question out there to the world is if someone has any resources or ideas on how I could devise an algorithm for solving this other than my current approach of brute forcing. I can post the script on pastebin or something didn't want to bloat my post more than it already is :P
EDIT: So I've gone with the brute force sequential route. I'm picking the first move in the list of eligible moves. If that sequence of moves fails I'll start over and increment the last eligible move. So I'm working on some optimizations for the brute force method:
What can you do? Try using A* search. As a heuristic, you can try picking a number of elements that could be removed by an action (I'm not sure that it's correct/optimal, you'll have to study it yourself).
There are other approaches, for example, constraint satisfaction, but I think it will be very difficult to implement a solver for your puzzle with it. However, look at Minizinc for insights. I would generate a task in the form of 'is it possible to empty current board in K steps?'. If not, increase K and run Minizinc again.
When feeding heroes I understand that its better to feed the same color because it increases the chance of leveling the heroes special, BUT if, in the case with my Wilbur his special maxes out before his level should I feed him every color to get him leveled up or just take it slow with the color matching?
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Hand up for thinking "Well, yes, those answers do cross the grid, but ... so what?" and then getting on with my day.
My personal Mondegreen dates from when I was very young and Kate Smith had a daytime variety show on TV. Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." The second line of the song goes, "Every dream brings a dream, dear, of you." Only I heard it as "Every dream brings a dreamdeer in view."
What's a dreamdeer, you might ask? Well, if there are reindeer ...
I think there's an additional element to this theme that makes it a bit tighter than Rex gives it credit for: ME is indeed roughly opposite WA, CT opposite OR, and GA opposite CA (among other states on the east coast in each case, but point is, it's valid). And it goes from north to south in that order. If you're going to do a postal code theme, I enjoy some semblance of geographic accuracy.
@Anonymous 7:17: I still hear the line that way! I didn't know the term for those mishears before now. And now I also know its etymology:
The word originates with journalist Sylvia Wright, who wrote a column in the 1950s in which she recounted hearing the Scottish folksong The Bonny Earl of Morray. Wright misheard the lyric "Oh, they have slain the Earl o' Morray and laid him on the green" and thought it was "Oh, they have slain the Earl o' Morray and Lady Mondegreen."
Enoyed the solve and didn't get the theme at all. Neither part.
Could barely find the will to finish. Not just "low-key mad" about "organic" product, but seething mad. It's dangerous pseudoscience to continue the farce that "organic" products are pesticide free. They aren't. Not even a little bit. It's not just a dumb answer, it's a factually incorrect answer
Do MONDEGREENs have to be from song lyrics or can they be from ordinary conversation? In my youth a friend and I biked into town to *get peanut butter cups.* Seems really weird now that we'd make a special trip just for that; we weren't pot smokers. Maybe we bought some ORGANIC PRODUCe as well, it's hard to remember. Anyway, we bumped into another friend and told him of our mission, and he replied: "What? You came into town to get beat up by the cops?!?"
Couldn't finish it, even after cheating. A EURO is 100 cents (naturally, I had "Buck")? The NE was impossible for an old guy who isn't into popular culture. Never heard of MONDEGREEN. A theme that only the constructor will understand. Hardest Tuesday I can remember.
I count it as a conceptual DNF as I didn't get the state abbreviations. Shoulda paid more attention to the ZIP and USPS clue and entry. The theme fell a little flat for me otherwise, too, as I've never heard "WANT A PIECE OF ME?" and have no knowledge of CANDY CRUSH SAGA; as for ORGANIC PRODUCT.... Redeeming feature: RAGTAG.
Heard in church as a child: In "Onward, Christian Soldiers," "Christ the royal master leans against the phone" (= leads against the foe). Obviously from the olden days of wall phones.
Help from previous puzzles: MONDEGREEN, STAN, LIPA.
@JHC 7:26 - Thank you for pointing out the geographic elegance.
Found this tough, particularly for a Tuesday. I got there in the end, apart from alpha-bashing to get the last letter which was the bottom-right of the grid with 'S' of 'TBS' and 'USPS' - I thought acronyms weren't supposed to cross each other to help us Brits out who never know any of these. I wanted TBC and USPC which are equally plausible if you've no idea.
Also took me a while to work out what the theme was, it was a bit of a shrug but I thought it was fine overall.
Kind of a sticky Tuesday with the usual mysterious pop culture references. Hand up for PRODUCE and not knowing the SAGA appendix. The highlight had to be getting the revealer and then finding the state abbreviations which was the only way the revealer made sense and was a nice aha! and made the unknowns worthwhile.
Great to see ATTILA so soon again as I remembered how to spell it, Also great to see MONDEGREEN, as I'm familiar with quite a few and also its origin. One of my favorites comes from "God Bless America"--Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from a bulb.
Impressive theme and execution, TJ and JC. Took Just a little longer than usual and Jeez, Cut down on the pop culture, OK? Thanks for lots of fun.
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14 wide grid, in case no one's said it yet. So expect slightly faster times than your normal.
This had a bit of a bite for me. Didn't catch the State Abbrs. ends, so the COAST TO COAST thing only had the one-dimension of being grid-spanners. IMO, the Circles were needed today at the COAST ends. But then y'all'd be complaining that we didn't need the circles, we'd be able to figure it out... But how many Did figure it out? Not me, although that's a low bar.
Still making puzs, but have slowed way down, submitting one maybe three times a year now, as opposed to many over a month. Getting tired of rejections. Just got one today, on a Rebus puz that included the Circles in a design that fit the Rebus. AH ME. The email said (paraphrasing) " You're puz isn't up to snuff, we have plenty of ThursPuzs that don't suck hard like yours". Har, I made that last part up. But, dang, can I just get one in someday?
Self pitying aside, with the extra element of the Themers going from West Coast USA State Abbrs. to East Coast, moves the coolness of the puz up several notches. Too bad the ole brain didn't catch that.
Uniclue: (going across a row):
"Just worry about matching a four on this hole, Janelle."
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MONDEGREEN where have you been all my life?? Never saw the term before today, but if it was a '90s thing, we can't forget the one made famous on Friends about Elton John's Tiny Dancer:
"hold me closer, Tony Danza"...
Amy: totally oblivious to the states at both ends, even though I appreciated the ZIP clue. Liked it a lot; very lively Tuesday.
My MONDEGREEN offering:
All the lonely Starbucks lovers.
"Got a long list of ex-lovers" from Blank Space, Taylor Swift
I know Shortz is prioritizing novel, innovative theme concepts that haven't been done before, but sheesh. Just because it's new doesn't make it an enjoyable solve. This theme is awful, thin, punch-less, IMO. I'd much, much prefer a well-executed, clever twist on a more common theme concept than this nonsense. 152ee80cbc
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