XOXO∞
Balanced diversity solver xoxo to the square.
Third party dependencies are documented in the folder third-party.
Bug Tracker∞
Feature requests and bug reports are best entered in the todos of xoxo.
Primary Source repository∞
The main source of xoxo
is on a mountain in central Switzerland.
We use distributed version control (git).
There is no central hub.
Every clone can become a new source for the benefit of all.
The preferred public clones of xoxo
are:
- on codeberg - a democratic community-driven, non-profit software development platform operated by Codeberg e.V.
- at sourcehut - a collection of tools useful for software development.
Example∞
Given the input file:
❯ cat test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
O
X
OX X
XX
OO
XXO
for clarity showing the dump to expose the regularity:
❯ xxd -c 7 test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
00000000: 4f20 2020 2020 0a O .
00000007: 5820 2020 2020 0a X .
0000000e: 4f58 2020 2058 0a OX X.
00000015: 2058 5820 2020 0a XX .
0000001c: 2020 204f 4f20 0a OO .
00000023: 5858 4f20 2020 0a XXO .
xoxo
will try to solve the puzzle in a diverse but balanced way:
❯ xoxo test/fixtures/grid_s_1.txt
Problem:
,---+---+---+---+---+---,
| O | | | | | | 1
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | | | | | | 2
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X | | | | X | 3
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| | X | X | | | | 4
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| | | | O | O | | 5
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | X | O | | | | 6
*---+---+---+---+---+---*
1 2 3 4 5 6
Solution:
,---+---+---+---+---+---,
| O | O | X | O | X | X | 1
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | O | O | X | X | O | 2
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X | O | X | O | X | 3
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| O | X | X | O | X | O | 4
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | O | X | O | O | X | 5
|---+---+---+---+---+---|
| X | X | O | X | O | O | 6
*---+---+---+---+---+---*
1 2 3 4 5 6
More in the usage documentation