Journal of Information Processing
Online ISSN : 1882-6652
ISSN-L : 1882-6652
Kurodoko is NP-Complete
Jonas Kölker
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2012 Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 694-706

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In a Kurodoko puzzle, one must colour some squares in a grid black in a way that satisfies non-overlapping, non-adjacency, reachability and numeric constraints specified by the numeric clues in the grid. We show that deciding the solvability of Kurodoko puzzles is NP-complete.

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