SourGumdropK Review

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Enjoy playing Kakuro with SourGumdropK and discover new methods.

Finish that puzzle that's got you stumped - just enter the clues and
use SourGumdropK to guide you past the problem.

* An easily-used puzzle solving interface
* Continuously updated combination lists for all clues
* Hints for fifteen solving methods
* Error checking
* Undo mechanism
* Built-in puzzles
* Puzzle input methods
* Difficulty ratings

Powerful but simple user interface

The user inteface minimises the effort required to work on puzzles and
lets you concentrate on finding the solution. For example, at any time
a single mouse click will pop-up the possible combinations for any row
or column. And they are always up to date, so you don't have to remember
them or use tables.

You can colour cells and candidates to help identify
patterns. Inconsistent or incorrect answers can be shown as you set
them and all moves can be undone. The solution for a single cell or
the whole puzzle can be shown at any stage. You can select the hint
which is easiest to understand or the one which removes the most
candidates.


Hint algorithms

Simple Filter, Impossible Combinations, Unique intersections,
Candidate Bounds, Unique candidates, Possible Permutations, Isolated
Necks, Hidden Singles, Hidden Pairs, Hidden Triples, Naked Pairs,
Naked Triples, Naked Quads, Xwing

Internal and external puzzles

SourGumdropK's built-in puzzles are given a difficulty rating depending
on the algorithms required in their solution and puzzles can be
selected based on their difficulty.

Puzzles can be read from files or entered via a built-in editor.
SourGumdropK can solve all puzzles. Entered puzzles are checked for
internal consistency and for having a single solution.


The appearance of the program can be set using a configuration
option. The Python source code is included.

Workaround for bug in Python 2.6

Python and Python-tk

Please contact SourGumdropK publisher, Rod Gerstad if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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