Have your childern played the awesome board game Camelot Jr.? Have you been frustrated with the limited number of puzzles that it comes with? This is a simple way to generate a whole new set of Camelot Jr puzzles and solutions - complete with images. If you run it with all the available configurations 4772 puzzles and solutions will be generated. If you are looking for a curated book of an additional 62 puzzles here is a link to a pdf with some of the better puzzles.
Please note that the game Camelot Jr and all of the images, rules and branding associated with it are copyrighted by Smart - Belgium / Raf Peteers. © 2005 - 2007 Concept, game design & artwork: Smart - Belgium/ Raf Peeters
Basic usage is as follows:
- Create a new Puzzle with the puzzle pieces that you want and the available solving pieces
- Grab the valid solutions
- Render the board out to a nice image
puzzle = Puzzle.new( [OrangePiece.new], [PurplePiece.new, BluePiece.new, BluePiece.new] )
puzzle.valid_solutions.each do |valid_solution|
rendered_starting_position = RenderedBoard.new( valid_solution.board, [PurplePiece.new, BluePiece.new, BluePiece.new] )
rendered_solution_position = RenderedBoard.new( valid_solution.solution )
rendered_starting_position.rendered_file( "puzzle.png" )
rendered_solution_position.rendered_file( "solution.png" )
end
Good examples of the usage can be seen in bin/scenario_*.rb.
Puzzle
Solution
Good test coverage can be found in the specs under the tests directory
bundle exec rake test