Countdown solver
On this page, you may enter the letters and numbers off countdown, and the
www.incoherency.co.uk server will solve countdown for you! If you wish to run the
old version of this software on your computer, you can get it
here. The advantage of running it on
your computer is that you can get more than just 10 words, and you can get
words smaller than 5 characters. More importantly you get the code, and that's
the fun part.
The (better) solvers that are currently used on this page are available on my
cntdn GitHub project.
It is possible that there are words that are not in this dictionary, or words in
the dictionary that are not real or valid in countdown. None of these conditions
have been found or looked for. The word game solver will not find words of less
than 5 characters. The numbers game solver has been updated such that it now
solves in a shortest way possible (thanks to iteratively-deepened depth-first
search), and it can now solve all solvable games.
Beta: There is now an interactive
letters game solver. This is based on a PHP script communicating with
lettersd from cntdn.
I found a bug in the numbers game software while writing the PHP interface. Zeroes are invalid in countdown, but my software does not prevent you from entering one. The software made no effort to avoid dividing by zero. Whoops! Anyway, it's fixed now.
