24

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This is a Perl script to list "distinct" solutions to the 24 puzzle. The lists of solutions to each N puzzle are organized in the solutions directory and are licensed under CC0.

• Solutions to 24
• Solutions to 10

History

• -2013: Learned about the 10 puzzle (a variation popular in Japan).
• 2018-08: Published an article (in Japanese) on a naive solver in Ruby.
• 2022-07: Realized that eliminating duplicate solutions could not be done with a CAS such as SymPy and started the research.
• 2022-09: Finished writing the script and failed to solve the 0 puzzle.
• 2023-01: Abandoned the research and archived the results on 24-puzzle-solver/24-puzzle-solver.
• 2024-02: Reorganized the results in this repo, essentially unchanged.