What's next?

[xiegeo]

What do we do after we finish this puzzle? This is an open-ended question for now. All suggestions welcome.

[rain-1]

I did my PR's with help of my own sudoku solver that I wrote, I will post it at the end.

[xiegeo]

@rain-1 Interesting, how does it deal with multiple solutions?

[rain-1]

it just fills in everything it can be sure of and stops there.

[MineRobber9000]

Let's do another one. Maybe a different size? A different game entirely?

[anishkny]

Perhaps a variant of Sudoku? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Sudoku#Sudoku_variants

Btw the first one is done! 🎉

1	5	7	2	9	6	8	3	4
8	9	2	3	4	5	6	1	7
4	3	6	1	8	7	2	5	9
7	4	1	6	5	2	3	9	8
9	2	8	7	3	4	5	6	1
3	6	5	8	1	9	4	7	2
6	8	4	9	7	3	1	2	5
2	1	9	5	6	8	7	4	3
5	7	3	4	2	1	9	8	6

[xiegeo]

Good job everyone. It's gone better than I had hoped, except we didn't get into a dead-end, what would have been interesting to resolve.

I want to try something a little different next, starting in a new repo. I don't know what that should be yet.

There were some properties of the game that I liked :

• Easy to get into: everyone already knows the rules of Sudoku.
• Easy to contribute: no additional tooling needed to send a pull request. (This probably generates the most complaints, since we don't have any tools to make the table look better or easier to fill.)
• Cooperative, git merge friendly: concurrent contributions can be merged and stay valid most of the time. (This places a limit on the layout of the textual representation of the game states. I also don't see how pvp, imperfect information, or chance-based games could be fairly played.)

I see two directions to take with different trade-offs. Make the game more fun, treat git as a database where both game programming and player state lives, or keep the game simple as an aid to learn and experiment with git.

If anyone wants to create a commit-sudoku inspired repository, I will be happy to add links to it from the readme.