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The Troubles of Interior Design–A Complexity Analysis of the Game Heyawake

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Heyawake is one of many recently popular Japanese pencil puzzles. We investigate the computational complexity of the problem of deciding whether a given puzzle instance has a solution or not. We show that Boolean gates can be emulated via Heyawake puzzles, and that it is possible to reduce the Boolean Satisfiability problem to Heyawake. It follows that the problem in question is \(\textsf{NP}\)-complete.

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  • Spiral Galaxy
  • Wire Grid
  • Interior Design
  • 3CNF Formula
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  1. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstrasse 3, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany

    Markus Holzer & Oliver Ruepp

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  1. Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 65, 50134, Firenze, Italy

    Pierluigi Crescenzi

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Giuseppe Prencipe

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Geppino Pucci

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Holzer, M., Ruepp, O. (2007). The Troubles of Interior Design–A Complexity Analysis of the Game Heyawake. In: Crescenzi, P., Prencipe, G., Pucci, G. (eds) Fun with Algorithms. FUN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72914-3_18

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