Braden Evans

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Hooks 11 solver

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An OCaml backtracking solver for Jane Street's Hooks 11 puzzle (September 2025): hooks, pentominoes and sum rules.

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OCaml
Multi-level backtracking search: label permutations, cell selection pruned on 2x2 blocks and connectivity, pentomino tiling, sum and clue checks