Bug 237362

Summary:	KSudoku - Setting difficulity to hard sometimes gives an easy board to solve.
Product:	[Applications] ksudoku	Reporter:	Bjørn Kristiansen <kribjo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Johannes.Bergmeier
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	coates, iandw.au, kde-games-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	1.0 (KDE SC 4.8)

Description Bjørn Kristiansen 2010-05-12 11:26:59 UTC

Version:           0.5 (using 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-22-generic

Sometimes when I start KSudoku and set difficulity level to hard, it in fact gives you an easy board to solve. Quitting the KSudoku application and starting it again doing the same and it may be that you get a board at hard level.

Comment 1 Parker Coates 2010-05-12 16:57:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 217925 ***

Comment 2 Ian Wadham 2011-11-07 10:29:10 UTC

I have replaced the puzzle generator and solver in KSudoku with a completely new generator and solver based on published algorithms. It will be released in KDE SC 4.8, due out in late January 2012. The new algorithms provide a full range of difficulties, from Very Easy to Diabolical and beyond, which have been tested against ratings of puzzles published in newspapers and on the Internet. Enjoy!

See http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Feature_Plan#kdegames for further details of changes to KSudoku in KDE SC 4.8.