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How can I calculate a jigsaw puzzle cut path?
I want to generate a path to cut an arbitrary shape into a set of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
All pieces must be unique to preclude placing a piece in the wrong spot.
Pieces must be interlocking such that ...
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Tiling a square
I wondered if there was a way to automate the process of finding a way to tile a tile into a square.
The idea is to represent the tile with a matrix of 0s for blank space and 1s for filled spaces ...
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Finding all dictionary words that can be made with a given set of characters (Wordfeud/Scrabble)
This is a slightly more involved variant of this recent question. By sheer coincidence I happened to have been building a Wordfeud (Scrabble clone) game in Mathematica.
My interactive Wordfeud ...
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How do we solve Eight Queens variation using primes?
Using a $p_n $x $p_n$ matrix, how can we solve the Eight queens puzzle to find a prime in every row and column?
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