The NoriNori Solver is a Java 11 application capable of solving NoriNori puzzles stored in JSON files through the help of backtracking. JavaFX is used to create the following GUI:
This project uses Gradle for dependency and build management. With its help it is quite easy to get the NoriNorI Solver running on your machine:
> gradlew.bat run // Windows
> ./gradlew run // MacOS and Linux
After starting the application using gradlew, you can drag and drop a JSON file onto the application. After loading the file a simple click on "Solve" lets the solver solve the board and updates the result in the GUI. After finishing calcuation you can store the result as a .png-file using the screenshot button at the bottom-right.
The following keyboard shortcuts can also be used to speed up the usage of this application:
F1- Show the attributions-windowF2- Open a JSON file using a file chooserF5- Perform a solver stepF6- Solve the whole NoriNori puzzleF7- Clear the current boardF8- Close the application
As mentioned at the beginning, all NoriNori boards are saved in JSON files. Such a JSON file is in the following format, where the arrays represent the board and the numbers the region identifiers (to have a way to express the borders / regions).
The following JSON file shows the source code for the NoriNori puzzle shown in the GUI screenshot at the top:
// Content of examples/6x6.json
[
[0,0,0,1,1,1],
[0,2,2,3,3,3],
[2,2,4,4,5,5],
[6,4,4,4,5,5],
[6,6,6,6,5,5],
[7,7,6,6,6,6]
]