README.md

water-sort-puzzle-solver

Water sort puzzle is a game that player should sort the same colors into bottles and this project provides an optimal solution for given problem using DFS algorithm.

Usage

1. First you need to clone project.

git clone https://github.com/cemasma/water-sort-puzzle-solver.git

2. Build the project.

go build .

3. And it is ready to run.

water-sort-puzzle-solver --file filename

How it works?

Solver parses the input json file and after that starts to simulate game mechanics and retries variants by implementation of DFS algorithm until find a solution. You can find example json mapping at below.

{
  "bottles": [
    [
      "GRAY",
      "ORANGE",
      "COFFEE",
      "DARK_GREEN"
    ],
    [
      "ORANGE",
      "RED",
      "YELLOW",
      "DARK_BLUE"
    ],
    [
      "DARK_BLUE",
      "PURPLE",
      "DARK_GREEN",
      "GRAY"
    ],
    [
      "LIGHT_GREEN",
      "PINK",
      "BLUE",
      "YELLOW"
    ],
    [
      "DARK_GREEN",
      "PURPLE",
      "GREEN",
      "GREEN"
    ],
    [
      "DARK_BLUE",
      "COFFEE",
      "GRAY",
      "GRAY"
    ],
    [
      "LIGHT_GREEN",
      "PURPLE",
      "DARK_GREEN",
      "BLUE"
    ],
    [
      "YELLOW",
      "LIGHT_GREEN",
      "PURPLE",
      "RED"
    ],
    [
      "RED",
      "PINK",
      "LIGHT_GREEN",
      "PINK"
    ],
    [
      "COFFEE",
      "BLUE",
      "PINK",
      "COFFEE"
    ],
    [
      "RED",
      "DARK_BLUE",
      "GREEN",
      "BLUE"
    ],
    [
      "ORANGE",
      "ORANGE",
      "GREEN",
      "YELLOW"
    ],
    [
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY"
    ],
    [
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY",
      "EMPTY"
    ]
  ]
}

And also there is no limit for bottle count, bottle depth or color count.