Solution 1308504

Submitted on 22 Oct 2017 by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

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Daniel Turizo on 22 Oct 2017

This problem was so difficult for me to solve, would you mind explaining what search algorithm did you implement? Thanks.

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 23 Oct 2017

It is a best-first search using a heuristic based on the sum of manhattan distances to target for each of the 26 tiles; solution 1310071 is slightly commented in case that helps

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 23 Oct 2017

@daniel and by the way congrats on finishing all cody5-hard problems, that is quite an accomplishment! (I had it easier, having created a couple of problems in that same group, so mine does not count :)

Daniel Turizo on 23 Oct 2017

I tried a similiar search but it did not end on time, and I don't know why.
PD: You're being too modest! I've been pulling all nighters all the week to finish them all, I'm sure it didn't take you all that time to solve them all.
PD2: I've made a problem (44390) in honour to all the suffering and latter satisfaction these 5th anniversay problems brought to me, you should check it out :)

Michael on 27 Nov 2017

I have tried something similar to this "best-first search" algorithm (if I understand the term correctly), but as I get closer to the final solution, I keep running into situations where all of the available moves move a tile out of its correct position, so my heuristic judges all of them equally, and the algorithm just starts making pseudo-random moves. Are you looking at all possibilities of some small number of moves, and picking one set of moves to move on from?

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