[racket] Using Racket to solve Professor Layton puzzles

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 26 13:34:17 EDT 2011

In the "Cute Uses of Racket" department, every morning I do a puzzle
from the popular "Professor Layton" game series:

http://professorlaytonds.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Layton

and sometimes it is convenient to do a computational search for the
answer. I generally post these on my blog with the "Racket" and
"Puzzle" tags:

http://jay--mccarthy.blogspot.com/search/label/Racket

You may find it cute, especially when you compare with a walkthrough:

http://professorlayton2walkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/11/puzzle148.html

vs

http://jay--mccarthy.blogspot.com/2011/07/professor-layton-and-diabolical-box_1114.html

Jay

-- 
Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93


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