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Solving computationally the "True Genius: Grecian Computer" puzzle

POSTED BY: Christopher Fox
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Posted 5 months ago

I ended up solving this using Python using basically the same approach you used. https://github.com/brockbrownwork/greek_computer/blob/main/greek_computer.ipynb

I didn't realize that you could take the puzzle apart; I just transcribed each layer using speech to text and looking through the little holes lol. I am definitely curious though how you can solve this without brute force, or at least with fewer combinations, would like to try again later. Maybe a breadth first search approach would work better, i.e.: avoiding all paths where the sum is more than 42?

POSTED BY: Brock Brown

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Very cool Christopher. Interesting approach and nice use of WL functions such as AssociationThread and patterns. On the website it has a difficulty of 5, I wonder the average time it takes to solve manually.

POSTED BY: Ahmed Elbanna
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