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ASP-Completeness Proofs of Puzzles Using the T-Metacell Framework

Published: August 15, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.11570v1

By: Nattapol Kiatchaipipat, Suthee Ruangwises

Potential Business Impact:

Solves hard pencil puzzles using a new logic trick.

Pencil puzzles are puzzles that can be solved by writing down solutions on a paper, using only logical reasoning. In this paper, we utilize the "T-metacell" framework developed by Tang and the MIT Hardness Group to prove the ASP-completeness of four new pencil puzzles: Grand Tour, Entry Exit, Yagit, and Zahlenschlange. The results demonstrate how versatile the framework is, offering new insights into the computational complexity of problems with various constraints.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ United States, Thailand

Page Count
15 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Computational Complexity