qwook / einsteinsriddlesolver

Solves Einsten's Riddle

Einstein's Riddle Solver

Solves Einsten's Riddle

Useage

You must have python installed.
Run this command in the terminal to start the riddle solver:
python einstein.py
The script will then print the output to the terminal.

Methodology:

An attribute can be House #1's Color or House #2's Drink.
An attribute value can be Drinks Tea or Keeps Dogs.

I first assume that every house contains every single possible
attribute value.

When a house is conclusive with an attribute, or there is only 1
possible attribute for that house, then that attribute is marked
as determined.

The possibilities of the house evolve over time,
as the rules and process of elimination are iteratively applied
to each house.
The process of elimination sees if a house has an attribute that
none of the other houses have, then marks the attribute as
determined.

This loops until each house has a possibility of only
1 attribute, and thus determined.

Post Mortem:

This would have been better if I made the attributes an array
instead of defining them as instance variables.

That way the code would be much shorter
and I can just iterate through the array,
rather than repeating the same lines of code over and over.

Perhaps I'll remake this script to use attributes array,
but that will be another day.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.