Puzzle Hunt 2023 - Mission Improbable

2024-01-01

This year I wanted to add a storyline to my annual puzzle treasure hunt. The players would take on in-game identities and would have an element of role-play in the hunt. I had a wide range of ages playing, from 13 to 23 so I would need some elements that were challenging for the older experienced…

play: puzzles, treasure-hunts

Ghost Solver - Now in Clojure

2016-12-20

My previous post was about a Python program to calculate the moves to guarantee a win in the puzzle word game ‘Ghost’. The algorithm was naturally recursive and felt ‘LISPy’. @pdlug has been telling me how writing in Clojure will expand my mind, make me more productive and…

tech: clojure, games, puzzles, programming

Ghost Solver - In Which We Ruin a Great Game

2016-11-26

My son showed me a new word game, ‘Ghost’, and I wrote a Python program to “solve” the game and find all winning sequences. The game played like this: We took turns adding a letter to a growing word fragment, trying not to be the one to complete a valid word. Each fragment…

tech: python, games, puzzles, programming