Ball-Sort-Puzzle-Solver is a c++ based project to find and analyse solutions for the game known as "Ball Sort Puzzle". You may test the game play at Google Play Store.
Import the .sln file into your visual studio. 3 projects will be imported to your environment:
- Ball-Sort-Puzzle-Solver: This is the back-end of the project. It is responsible for the tubes and the balls and the actions on them
- Ball-Sort-Puzzle-Solver-Tester: This is the project where gtest take the lead to test the project and ensure the right functionality.
- Ball-Sort-GUI: This is the project where the GUI is implemented using the QT libraries.
Install Visual Studio and import the solution file. Add google test to your environment to start testing the project. And add QT VS tool to your environment to start viewing solutions.
After finishing the prerequisites you run Ball-Sort-Puzzle-Solver-Tester project
After finishing the prerequisites you run Ball-Sort-GUI. You may need to change the test file use in the GUI in the main.cpp.
Multiple solution has been tested over so many test cases. test cases has been broken into two types:
- Easy test cases: Those are the levels [1-10] in the game.
- Hard test cases: Those are the levels [50-60] in the game and also some other chosen hard levels.
Four different solutions has been implemented:
- Algorithm 1 : this is the recursive solution. We search the whole tree using recursion (DFS) to reach to the goal solution.
- Algorithm 2: this is the iterative solution. We search the whole tree but using queues.
- Algorithm 3: this is another version of the iterative solution where we use threading to take less time.
- Algorithm 4: another version of the iterative solution where we use heuristic calculations to take the most promising state to the next iteration.
And here is the timing of each algorithm on each split of the test cases:
| Algorithm | average timing on the easy test cases | average timing on the hard test cases |
|---|---|---|
| Algorithm 1 | 9923 ms | 28703 ms |
| Algorithm 2 | 6132 ms | 51720 ms |
| Algorithm 3 | 7205 ms | 15844 ms |
| Algorithm 4 | 84 ms | 113 ms |
This is the GIF showing how the program runs with a 300 ms interval between each two moves.
Also you may check this website based on this algorithm or the repo it depends on.
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