Use the computer so solve 'Nutts' problems. Nutts-Solver automatically fills any user-defined playing area with a given combination of the (up to) 12 Nutts tiles. For each tile type, you can determine whether the computer should use none, one or many (unlimited number of) copies of the tile. Just click '0', '1' or 'M' for any of the twelve types displayed at the top. Given a shape and a set of tiles to fill it with, it is in general not known whether such a tiling problem has a solution. Nutts-Solver allows you to try any combination of tile types for any given shape, and there are many discoveries still waiting to be made! You can define the area to be filled yourself. Select 'T0' with the right mouse button to add a position to the board. Finally, click one of the two text bars to let the computer tile the given playing area automatically. The left button saying 'Fixed Colours' means that each tile type has its own, fixed colour. The right button saying 'Sequential Colours' means that the colour will change with each tile placed, the colours being from a series of 16 colours. This is especially useful when you use only very few types of tiles. Variants 1 to 19 solve the 19 problems given in the orginal Zillions game. Variant 20: Freeplay, create your own setup on an empty board. Variant 21: Freeplay, create your own setup from a full board. For more Nutts problems and others challenges and brain teasers see my book 'NUTTS And Other Crackers', available from http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz. |