Crack The Code - Generator is a basic macOS commandline utility to generate puzzles for Gridlock: Crack The Code.
If you're interested in the algorithm, check out PuzzleSolver.swift and Generator.swift
./CrackTheCode-Generator [difficulty] [amount]
Where difficulty is either easy, medium, hard, or wizard, and where amount is a positive number.
easypuzzles are played with possible values 1, 2, and 3. This significantly reduces the amount of unique combinations to 26 (because 333 would be considered too easily solvable, see Equation.swift).- The current algorithm is rather naive; after generating a random sequence, it only tries one set of random equations. This can make the script slow when generating a lot of puzzles for higher difficulties. Still, generating about 700/800 puzzles (as done for Gridlock: Crack The Code) doesn't take unreasonably long.