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Talk:Solve a Hidato puzzle: Difference between revisions
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I'm really reluctant to admit this as a full task just yet, as it is dependent on a complex applet in an external website. Better would be to put a description (which could involve a link to wikipedia) and specific problem to solve in this page. We can always judge for ourselves whether someone's solved the actual problem or just the specific instance of it. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 13:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
: How about two separate task? One for creating the puzzles, one for solving them? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 17:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
: It seems like an interesting problem but there really needs to be more supporting information for this task.
:* The linked WP article [[wp:Hidato]] is of poor quality and provides very little of use, there isn't even a through discussion of rules there saying how to get to the solution. The solution doesn't seem to be full of consecutive numbers in every row, column, or diagonal; and it certainly isn't clear how the numbers got laid down. Some lines are consecutive except for one number. Others aren't consecutive at all. There may be a method but it's far from obvious.
:* What's with the Knights Tour extra credit reference (we already have a task)? Maybe it's an easy step up but I don't see it and the task already seems complex enough. It's a nice fact that this can used for this, but why make it even optionally part of the task?
:* I think this is a solution task. Generating a board should be another task.
: Generally if I can't figure out most of what I need to do a task (at least broadly) from the task page then I'm not very interested in going off and researching it. Nor am I interested in reverse engineering the entire solution from a language I'm unfamiliar with. Task descriptions should be be able to paint enough of a picture to draw in contributors without requiring potentially a few hundred contributors to do that level of research or translation. That's my $.02 --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 19:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
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