I said I'd post this in the morning, but I'd only gotten one response by then, so I figured I'd wait. Here's the current leaderboard. Might as well keep the contest open until tomorrow morning (GMT)...say 9am. Send me your solutions then and I'll post them some time tomorrow.
BTW, there were some questions about how the solutions are scored. For that I defer to the Generic perl golf rules at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~thospel/golf/rules.html
Here are the current standings:
1. Georg Moritz - 150 2. Terje Kristensen - 156 3. Brad Greenlee - 158 4. Tobias Gödderz - 162
I've copied the challenge below in case you don't know what I'm talking about.
Once again, I encourage people to check out the "official" perl golf site at http://terje2.perlgolf.org/~pgas/score.pl?func=front
-b
This is the puzzle to solve: http://scottkim.com/newmedia/tangledtale.html
Input: none. Encode the data you need to solve the puzzle in your solution; and no, just printing out the answers without actually "solving" the puzzle programatically doesn't count. Actually, if I had the time/inclination, I suppose the right thing to do would be to come up with a few other valid puzzles that could be used as input. But I don't (volunteers?)
Output: all solutions to the puzzle, one per line (sorry, Tobias!), in the form:
1 8 5 11 ... 16
Where the numbers, read from left to right, represent the order in which to visit the squares in order to solve the puzzle.
I will say that there is more than one answer to the puzzle. Checking whether your answers are correct is as simple as following your sequence on the puzzle.
