Simple Amazons Endgames and Their Connection to Hamilton Circuits in Cubic Subgrid Graphs
CG '00 Revised Papers from the Second International Conference on Computers and Games
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We show that the popular pencil puzzle NURIKABE is intractable from the computational complexity point of view, that is, it is NP-complete, even when the involved numbers are 1 and 2 only. To this end, we show how to simulate Boolean gates by the puzzle under consideration. Moreover, we also study some NURIKABE variants, which remain NP-complete, too.