On the NP-Completeness of Satisfying Certain Path and Loop Puzzles

04/23/2020
by   Hadyn Tang, et al.
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"Eye-Witless", "Haisu" and "Oriental House" are genres of logic puzzles invented by William Hu, and "Detour" is a genre of logic puzzle invented by online user Guowen Zhang. Each of these puzzles revolves around constructing a path or loop through the cells of a grid according to certain constraints given by clues in the grid. We prove that deciding whether a particular puzzle in each of these genres is solvable is NP-complete.

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