LazyWeb request

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

a) A Sudoku solving web service.
b) A Sudoku generating web service.
c) Hook them up to each other.

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4 Responses to LazyWeb request

  1. wingerz says:
    April 11, 2007 at 16:21

    Anything in particular you want to do with this? One of my close friends put together http://www.sudokuslam.com/ . It’s got a sophisticated solver and generator (but neither is exposed as a service, I think).

  2. Stelios Sfakianakis says:
    April 11, 2007 at 17:40

    A Lazy answer: There are plenty of web sites that generate and solve sudoku. A quick search revealed http://show.websudoku.com/? for the sudoku generation and http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/ for a solver. Both are using html forms for the sudoku matrix and it’s relatively easy with some html scraping, xpath, and so on to wrap these web pages as web services (either REST or SOAP :-D )

    Of course I am assuming that the licenses of the corresponding web pages permit such mashups, which I believe is not the case :-D

    Cheers
    Stelios

  3. CaptSolo says:
    April 19, 2007 at 19:51

    c) sounds like fun. As for a) – human computation is in these days. Just let people do the solving. :)

    One a more serious note – we need to get all the LazyWeb requests together so that people looking for things to do are presented with a choice of interesting things they may take on.

  4. Earle Martin says:
    June 9, 2008 at 04:11

    I am inevitably reminded of:

    “For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.” — Steven Wright

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