Twist’N’Turn Silverlight

On Kwontom Loop forum, someone asked for Masyu puzzles, so I copied my LoopDeLoop silverlight game engine from last weekend and spent a day hacking it to change it to be like Masyu instead.

The result is http://www.themissingdocs.net/Twist.html.

Still a work in progress, Masyu puzzle generation is much more annoying than LoopDeLoop, due to a large proportion of possible loops do not have a valid Masyu puzzle associated with them.  Therefore where LoopDeLoop can generate puzzles in sizes like 20×14, Twist struggles to get much further than 8×8.  I will at some point be looking at an alternative puzzle generation strategy, but not tonight.

Update: I’ve fixed the slow puzzle generation using a cool little trick – it now can do 15×15 in a decent time.

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