Nothing planned up to now for larger puzzles. Is this something you would like to see?

Originally posted by jgallant:

Nothing planned up to now for larger puzzles. Is this something you would like to see?

yeah definetly but i dont know if the other people would like that too :D most of them won't see this discussion either :P

To be honest, the main issue/restriction with going bigger, is the time required for the solver/checker to verify the validity of a puzzle.

When the puzzle reaches 25x25, depending on the number of clues in each row and column, the validator can take over a minute. And it gets exponentially worse from there to the point where it isn't really viable.

I'm not sure how I would be able to optimize it, but it is potentially a possibility.

Originally posted by jgallant:

To be honest, the main issue/restriction with going bigger, is the time required for the solver/checker to verify the validity of a puzzle.

When the puzzle reaches 25x25, depending on the number of clues in each row and column, the validator can take over a minute. And it gets exponentially worse from there to the point where it isn't really viable.

I'm not sure how I would be able to optimize it, but it is potentially a possibility.

I think the main issue with the 25x25 validation in particular (although it applies to smaller grids as well) is that, if you're not following a picture you've already made, depending how much validates, you can be left with very little of your original attempt to work from. It might be helpful (more prolific design submitters than I would be able to offer more weight to that, or not!) if the invalid entries were highlighted in a different colour?