Who witnesses The Witness? Finding witnesses in The Witness is hard and sometimes impossible

We analyze the computational complexity of the many types of pencil-and-paper-style puzzles featured in the 2016 puzzle video game The Witness. In all puzzles, the goal is to draw a simple path in a rectangular grid graph from a start vertex to a destination vertex. The different puzzle types place...

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Main Authors: Abel, Zachary R, Bosboom, Jeffrey William, Coulombe, Michael Joseph, Demaine, Erik D., Hamilton, Linus, Hesterberg, Adam, Kopinsky, Justin, Lynch, Jayson R., Rudoy, Mikhail, Thielen, Clemens
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128826