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Countdown Game Puzzle Solver
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Documentation for !CountDown application version 3.00 21-Mar-1991,
for RISC OS 3.1+.
Issue: 3.00 04-Apr-1994, replaces: 0.10 13-Feb-1991
1.00 23-Feb-1991
1.00/R 21-Jun-1991
2.00 29-Jul-1991
2.00/R 31-Jul-1992
Author: David J Ruck
Copyright � DEEJ Technology PLC 1991-1994
Introduction
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!CountDown was written to take on and win against the long running Channel 4
TV program Countdown (shown at 4:30pm weekdays, most of the year). This was
necessary as the programmers brain just wasn't up to the job without
assistance from the Archimedes.
!CountDown will enable both numbers and letters games from the TV program to
be solved. When played alongside contestants on the show it should enable
the user to win the vast majority of games.
Using !Countdown
================
Double click on the !CountDown application to install its icon on the
iconbar. Clicking on its icon will bring up a Countdown Numbers and a
Countdown Letters window, the iconbar menu can be used to bring up the
windows individually.
Countdown Letters
-----------------
The idea of the Countdown letters game is to find the longest possible word
that can be made from a selection of nine vowels and consonants. The words
found must be in the Oxford Concise Dictionary and obey the scrabble rules -
no proper nouns, etc. It can also be used to solve the nine letter
conundrum.
A Countdown Letters window consists of boxes in which to type the chosen
vowels and consonants, buttons to control the search, boxes showing how it
is progressing, and a scrollable window for the words that are found.
Blue boxes Click the mouse over the left-most blue box and a
caret (thin red line where keyboard input will go)
will appear, a chosen vowel or consonant can then be
typed, the caret will automatically move to the next
box. Upper or lower case may be used. The up and
down cursor keys can be used to move between boxes,
pressing RETURN in the right-most box starts the
search.
Go Clicking Go starts the search if all the letters
have been entered. Any blank boxes will be
highlighted with a ? and the search will not start.
The program begins by seeing if the letters will
make any nine letter words, as these are the most
valuable, then the eights down to the fives. Words
less than five letters are not tried, because it is
almost impossible not to find a five letter word
from a random selection of vowels and consonants.
Whilst searching the Go button will change to Pause,
allowing the searched to be temporarily paused.
Whilst paused the button will show Continue,
pressing it will continue from where it was paused.
Clear This button will clear all the boxes and abandon a
search if in progress, it can be used to tidy up the
display before a new game.
Vowel & Consonant When not playing along with the show, these buttons
can be used to pick vowels and consonants at random.
The letter will be placed in the box the caret is
in, or the left most box if it is in another window.
The caret will then move to the next box. Go can be
pressed when all the letters are chosen.
Time Shows the time elapsed during the search, not
including any time during which the search was
stopped.
Checked This box shows the number of words compared so far.
The built in !Countdown dictionary contains 59161
words. The time taken to try all the words will
depend on the processing speed of your machine, the
screen mode in use, what other applications are
running, and what storage medium the !CountDown
application was run from.
Even an older ARM2 machine (in low bandwidth mode
such as 12) can usually try all words in under 10
seconds from a hard disc or RAM disc, or under 20
seconds from a floppy disc.
Nines, Eights, Sevens, These boxes give a count of the number of words
Sixes, Fives found with the corresponding number of letters.
The Word window Words which are found are placed in the sub window
surrounded by a green border. The window can be
scrolled up and down using the scroll bar.
During the search the words found will be added to
the window causing it to scroll if a lot are found.
After the search has completed it automatically
scrolls back to the top to reveal the best words
found, hopefully some with nine letters.
The Countdown Conundrum The program can usually solve the conundrum (nine
letter anagram at the end of the show). faster than
the contestants, the limiting factor being the time
taken to type in the letters from the TV screen.
The dictionary !CountDown has a 59161 word dictionary stored in a
very compact form on disc which is searched when Go
is pressed, the dictionary consists of;
14221 nine letter words
14928 eight letter words
13855 seven letter words
9987 six letter words
6170 five letter words
Countdown Numbers
-----------------
The idea of the numbers game is to reach a target number in 30 seconds,
using up to six randomly chosen numbers and a combination of addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division. The target number is in the range
101 to 999, and the other numbers are in the range 1-10 or are 25,50,75 or
100.
The Countdown numbers window consists of various boxes to enter the numbers,
show the calculation and results and buttons to start and stop the process
of looking for a solution.
Blue numbers Clicking on the blue boxes places a caret in the
box, and enables a number to be typed in. When
playing along with the TV show, the 6 numbers chosen
by the contestants from four rows of face down
cards, should be entered into these boxes.
If there is a number in a box already it can be
deleted using the DELETE or COPY keys. Pressing
RETURN will move the caret to the box to the right,
and from the right-most box up to the target window.
The up and down cursor keys can be used to move the
caret between boxes.
The target number The target number (which is randomly chosen by Cecil
the Countdown computer) should be entered into the
red box. Pressing RETURN from the last blue box will
automatically place the caret in the target box,
pressing RETURN from here will start the
calculation.
Go Clicking over this button will start the search for
a solution to the puzzle. If any of the boxes have
not been filled or are disallowed values, ??? will
be placed in the offending box(es).
The calculation to find a solution will continue
until the first solution is found, in which case it
stops, or until all the possible combinations which
the program can try are exhausted, in which case the
closest solution will be given.
During the calculation the Go button will change to
Pause, allowing the calculation to be temporarily
paused, the closest solution found so far is
displayed in the green box, it will automatically
pause when the exact solution is found. Whilst
paused the button will show Continue, pressing it
will continue from where it was paused.
Clear This button will clear all the boxes and abandon a
calculation if in progress, it can be used to tidy
up the display before a new game.
Small num & Large Num If the TV programme does not happen to be on,
numbers can be chosen at random using these buttons.
A large number (25, 75 or 100) or small number
(1-10) will be placed in the blue box containing the
caret, or the left most one if it is in another
window. Pressing either button when the caret is in
the target box, the target is chosen from the range
101 to 999. The calculation can be started using the
Go button.
Time This box shows the time taken during calculation,
not including any time for stoppages.
Combs This indicates the number of combinations tried to
find the solution. The program can try over
1,000,000 combinations of the six numbers and
arithmetic operators before giving up.
The time taken to try all combinations will depend
on the processing speed of your machine, the screen
mode in use and what other applications are running.
A lightly loaded ARM2 machine in Mode 12 can usually
try all combinations in just over 40 seconds, most
solutions are usually found in under 10 seconds.
Nearest While the calculation is in process this box shows
the nearest result found so far, or the target if a
solution has been found.
Solution The exact solution or the nearest that could be
found is shown in the large green box, with the
numbers and operators used shown as a sum.
The algorithm A simple brute force algorithm is used trying all
the combinations of numbers and operators, starting
with two numbers and working up to using all six.
Divisions are checked to see that only whole numbers
are produced.
Combinations of parentheses are not used for speed
reasons, which is why it is sometimes possible to
find a solution that this program can't - but only
rarely.
Other puzzle solvers
====================
Luckily I don't watch any other game shows, although there's always the
Krypton Factor assault course...!
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