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examples/notebook/contrib/killer_sudoku.ipynb

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killer_sudoku

<table align="left"> <td> <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/notebook/contrib/killer_sudoku.ipynb">Run in Google Colab</a> </td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/contrib/killer_sudoku.py">View source on GitHub</a> </td> </table>

First, you must install ortools package in this colab.

python
%pip install ortools

Killer Sudoku in Google CP Solver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Sudoku ''' Killer sudoku (also killer su doku, sumdoku, sum doku, addoku, or samunamupure) is a puzzle that combines elements of sudoku and kakuro. Despite the name, the simpler killer sudokus can be easier to solve than regular sudokus, depending on the solver's skill at mental arithmetic; the hardest ones, however, can take hours to crack.

...

The objective is to fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 9 in a way that the following conditions are met:

* Each row, column, and nonet contains each number exactly once.
* The sum of all numbers in a cage must match the small number printed
  in its corner.
* No number appears more than once in a cage. (This is the standard rule
  for killer sudokus, and implies that no cage can include more
  than 9 cells.)

In 'Killer X', an additional rule is that each of the long diagonals contains each number once. '''

Here we solve the problem from the Wikipedia page, also shown here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killersudoku_color.svg

The output is: 2 1 5 6 4 7 3 9 8 3 6 8 9 5 2 1 7 4 7 9 4 3 8 1 6 5 2 5 8 6 2 7 4 9 3 1 1 4 2 5 9 3 8 6 7 9 7 3 8 1 6 4 2 5 8 2 1 7 3 9 5 4 6 6 5 9 4 2 8 7 1 3 4 3 7 1 6 5 2 8 9

Compare with the following models:

This model was created by Hakan Kjellerstrand ([email protected]) Also see my other Google CP Solver models: http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/

python
import sys
from ortools.constraint_solver import pywrapcp

#
# Ensure that the sum of the segments
# in cc == res
#


def calc(cc, x, res):

  solver = list(x.values())[0].solver()

  # sum the numbers
  cage = [x[i[0] - 1, i[1] - 1] for i in cc]
  solver.Add(solver.Sum(cage) == res)
  solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(cage))


def main():

  # Create the solver.
  solver = pywrapcp.Solver("Killer Sudoku")

  #
  # data
  #

  # size of matrix
  n = 9

  # For a better view of the problem, see
  #  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killersudoku_color.svg

  # hints
  #    [sum, [segments]]
  # Note: 1-based
  problem = [[3, [[1, 1], [1, 2]]], [15, [[1, 3], [1, 4], [1, 5]]],
             [22, [[1, 6], [2, 5], [2, 6], [3, 5]]], [4, [[1, 7], [2, 7]]],
             [16, [[1, 8], [2, 8]]], [15, [[1, 9], [2, 9], [3, 9], [4, 9]]],
             [25, [[2, 1], [2, 2], [3, 1], [3, 2]]], [17, [[2, 3], [2, 4]]],
             [9, [[3, 3], [3, 4], [4, 4]]], [8, [[3, 6], [4, 6], [5, 6]]],
             [20, [[3, 7], [3, 8], [4, 7]]], [6, [[4, 1], [5, 1]]],
             [14, [[4, 2], [4, 3]]], [17, [[4, 5], [5, 5], [6, 5]]],
             [17, [[4, 8], [5, 7], [5, 8]]], [13, [[5, 2], [5, 3], [6, 2]]],
             [20, [[5, 4], [6, 4], [7, 4]]], [12, [[5, 9], [6, 9]]],
             [27, [[6, 1], [7, 1], [8, 1], [9, 1]]],
             [6, [[6, 3], [7, 2], [7, 3]]], [20, [[6, 6], [7, 6], [7, 7]]],
             [6, [[6, 7], [6, 8]]], [10, [[7, 5], [8, 4], [8, 5], [9, 4]]],
             [14, [[7, 8], [7, 9], [8, 8], [8, 9]]], [8, [[8, 2], [9, 2]]],
             [16, [[8, 3], [9, 3]]], [15, [[8, 6], [8, 7]]],
             [13, [[9, 5], [9, 6], [9, 7]]], [17, [[9, 8], [9, 9]]]]

  #
  # variables
  #

  # the set
  x = {}
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(n):
      x[i, j] = solver.IntVar(1, n, "x[%i,%i]" % (i, j))

  x_flat = [x[i, j] for i in range(n) for j in range(n)]

  #
  # constraints
  #

  # all rows and columns must be unique
  for i in range(n):
    row = [x[i, j] for j in range(n)]
    solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(row))

    col = [x[j, i] for j in range(n)]
    solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(col))

  # cells
  for i in range(2):
    for j in range(2):
      cell = [
          x[r, c]
          for r in range(i * 3, i * 3 + 3)
          for c in range(j * 3, j * 3 + 3)
      ]
      solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(cell))

  # calculate the segments
  for (res, segment) in problem:
    calc(segment, x, res)

  #
  # search and solution
  #
  db = solver.Phase(x_flat, solver.INT_VAR_DEFAULT, solver.INT_VALUE_DEFAULT)

  solver.NewSearch(db)

  num_solutions = 0
  while solver.NextSolution():
    for i in range(n):
      for j in range(n):
        print(x[i, j].Value(), end=" ")
      print()

    print()
    num_solutions += 1

  solver.EndSearch()

  print()
  print("num_solutions:", num_solutions)
  print("failures:", solver.Failures())
  print("branches:", solver.Branches())
  print("WallTime:", solver.WallTime())


main()