Custom Sudoku Books with Ruby!! and LaTeX!!
summary
Creates 365 puzzles that increase in difficulty over the year by generating tens of thousands of candidates with Sudoku by Glenn Fowler, parsing solver ratings on a 0–9999 exponential scale, and filtering for only logic‑solvable, minimal puzzles that require specific strategies. Uses Ruby scripts to select puzzles, emit LaTeX using the sudoku LaTeX package by Paul Abraham, and produce a PDF with separated solution pages, printed spiral‑bound as a working book that actually matches claimed constraints and difficulty progression.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Personalized Sudoku books
- 3:00Sudoku by Glenn Fowler
- 5:56Planning book creation
- 6:38Ruby scripts for puzzles
- 7:41LaTeX files for Sudoku
- 8:44Solution pages design
- 9:27Finalizing book
- 9:48Closing remarks
