Variant Generators

heebiejeebieclub · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: Variant Generators

Howdy.

Does anybody know of some generators that can generate one or more of these:
- Sudoku X
- Samurai Sudoku
- Killer Sudoku
- Kakuro
????

Thanks very much.

Bo · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: Variant Generators

My program can generate Sudoku X puzzles:
http://www.setbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=221&mforum=sudoku

Bo

heebiejeebieclub · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

Great!

Any others? Samurai, killer etc.

chuckfresno · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

For Kakro, search the net for "cross sums", "cross addition", "x-sums". They've been called "cross sums" in the USA for decades.

X-Sums 98 Shareware

Kakro by Hirofumi

Kakuro Cross Sums software

heebiejeebieclub · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks - can anybody help me with the remaining ones?

djape · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: Killer Sudoku & Samurai generator

heebiejeebieclub, my software can create any kind of overlapping puzzles, both as Killer and Sudoku, and also as diagonal or non-diagonal.

However the generator is not available, only the solver. If you have a special requirement we could generate the puzzles for you.

nj3h · Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:59 am Post subject:

Are you planning to make the generator available for sale someday?

How do you set up your program to solve overlapping or samurai puzzles?

Can it solve for odd shaped blocks (in other words not the standard 3x3 blocks)?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Happy New Year,
George

garthd · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: Samurai grids

Yep - I've got some vba code (Excel) that'll generate 9x9, 16x16 and Samurai (5 overlapping 9 x 9 grids). Let me know if you'd like a copy.