Computational complexity of puzzles and related topics

R UEHARA - Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Since the 1930s, mathematicians and computer scientists have been interested in
computation. While mathematicians investigate recursion theory, computer scientists …

Five cells and tilepaint are NP-complete

C Iwamoto, T Ide - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and …, 2022 - search.ieice.org
Five Cells and Tilepaint are NP-Complete Page 1 508 IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST., VOL.E105–D,
NO.3 MARCH 2022 PAPER Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science - New …

Moon-or-Sun, Nagareru, and Nurimeizu are NP-complete

C Iwamoto, T Ide - IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of …, 2022 - search.ieice.org
Moon-or-Sun, Nagareru, and Nurimeizu are NP-Complete Page 1 IEICE TRANS.
FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E105–A, NO.9 SEPTEMBER 2022 1187 PAPER Special Section on …

Yin-Yang puzzles are NP-complete

ED Demaine, J Lynch, M Rudoy, Y Uno - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15585, 2021 - arxiv.org
We prove NP-completeness of Yin-Yang/Shiromaru-Kuromaru pencil-and-paper puzzles.
Viewed as a graph partitioning problem, we prove NP-completeness of partitioning a …

Polynomial-time reductions from 3SAT to Kurotto and Juosan puzzles

C Iwamoto, T Ibusuki - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and …, 2020 - search.ieice.org
Polynomial-Time Reductions from 3SAT to Kurotto and Juosan Puzzles Page 1 500 IEICE
TRANS. INF. & SYST., VOL.E103–D, NO.3 MARCH 2020 PAPER Special Section on …

Computational complexity of Nurimisaki and Sashigane

C Iwamoto, T Ide - IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of …, 2020 - search.ieice.org
Computational Complexity of Nurimisaki and Sashigane Page 1 IEICE TRANS.
FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E103–A, NO.10 OCTOBER 2020 1183 PAPER Special Section on …

Nondango is NP-Complete

S Ruangwises - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11447, 2023 - arxiv.org
Nondango is a pencil puzzle consisting of a rectangular grid partitioned into regions, with
some cells containing a white circle. The player has to color some circles black such that …