Games have been an important tool for motivating undergraduate students majoring in
computer science and engineering. However, it is difficult to build an entire game for …

Nonograms, also known as Japanese puzzles, are a specific type of logic drawing puzzles.
The challenge is to fill a grid with black and white pixels in such a way that a given …

The Nonograms puzzle, also known as Paint by Numbers, is a Japanese logic puzzle. It has
been shown that the general problem of solving it is NP-hard. In this paper, we answer …

A Taguchi-based genetic algorithm (TBGA) is proposed to solve Japanese nonogram
puzzles. The TBGA exploits the power of global exploration inherent in the traditional …

A picture-logic puzzle is a game that takes the form of an N× M grid, with numbers situated
on the left of its rows and on the top of its columns, which give the clues for solving the …

This paper will explore research practices already being conducted in various institutions,
strengthening this paper's position that puzzle-based learning is a foundational …

Japanese puzzles, also known as Nonograms, are image reconstruction problems that can
be solved by logic reasoning. Nonograms can have widely varying difficulty levels. Although …

In this paper a hyper-heuristic algorithm is designed and developed for its application to the
Jawbreaker puzzle. Jawbreaker is an addictive game consisting in a matrix of colored balls …

An intelligent genetic algorithm (IGA) is proposed to solve Japanese nonograms and is used
as a method in a university course to learn evolutionary algorithms. The IGA combines the …

This paper presents two heuristics algorithms to solve Japanese puzzles, both black and
white puzzles and color puzzles. First, we present ad-hoc heuristics which use the …