Variations on Instant Insanity

In one of the first papers about the complexity of puzzles, Robertson and Munro [14] proved that a generalized form of the then-popular Instant Insanity puzzle is NP-complete. Here we study several variations of this puzzle, exploring how the complexity depends on the piece shapes and the allowable...

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Main Authors: Demaine, Erik D. (Contributor), Demaine, Martin L. (Contributor), Morgan, Thomas D. (Author), Uehara, Ryuhei (Author), Eisenstat, Sarah Charmian (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2014-04-17T19:29:58Z.
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