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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.24
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-88159
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/8815/
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Iwamoto, Chuzo ; Haruishi, Masato ; Ibusuki, Tatsuaki

Herugolf and Makaro are NP-complete

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Abstract

Herugolf and Makaro are Nikoli's pencil puzzles. We study the computational complexity of Herugolf and Makaro puzzles. It is shown that deciding whether a given instance of each puzzle has a solution is NP-complete.

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@InProceedings{iwamoto_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:8815,
  author =	{Chuzo Iwamoto and Masato Haruishi and Tatsuaki Ibusuki},
  title =	{{Herugolf and Makaro are NP-complete}},
  booktitle =	{9th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2018)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-067-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{100},
  editor =	{Hiro Ito and Stefano Leonardi and Linda Pagli and Giuseppe Prencipe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8815},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-88159},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Herugolf, Makaro, pencil puzzle, NP-complete}
}

Keywords: Herugolf, Makaro, pencil puzzle, NP-complete
Collection: 9th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 04.06.2018

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