Until now, Same Game has been the only puzzle in this collection

[sgt/puzzles] / puzzles.but

diff --git a/puzzles.but b/puzzles.but
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--- a/puzzles.but
+++ b/puzzles.but
@@ -47,12 +47,11 @@ ends - PocketPC, Mac OS pre-10, or whatever it might be - then all
 the games in this framework will immediately become available on
 another platform as well.
 
-The actual games in this collection were mostly not my invention; I
-saw them elsewhere, and rewrote them in a form that was more
-convenient for me. I do not claim credit, in general, for inventing
-the rules of any of these puzzles; all I claim is authorship of the
-code (or at least those parts of the code that weren't contributed
-by other people!).
+The actual games in this collection were mostly not my invention; they
+are re-implementations of existing game concepts within my portable
+puzzle framework. I do not claim credit, in general, for inventing the
+rules of any of these puzzles. (I don't even claim authorship of all
+the code; some of the puzzles have been submitted by other authors.)
 
 This collection is distributed under the \i{MIT licence} (see
 \k{licence}). This means that you can do pretty much anything you like
@@ -960,11 +959,6 @@ Removing a region causes the rest of the grid to shuffle up:
 blocks that are suspended will fall down (first), and then empty
 columns are filled from the right. 
 
-The game generator does not try to guarantee soluble grids;
-it will, however, ensure that there are at least 2 squares of each 
-colour on the grid at the start (and will forbid custom grids for which
-that would be impossible).
-
 Same Game was contributed to this collection by James Harvey.
 
 \H{samegame-controls} \i{Same Game controls}
@@ -1010,6 +1004,23 @@ any points at all. With the alternative \q{(n-1)^2} system, regions of
 two squares score a point each, and larger regions score relatively
 more points.
 
+\dt \e{Ensure solubility}
+
+\dd If this option is ticked (the default state), generated grids
+will be guaranteed to have at least one solution.
+
+\lcont{
+
+If you turn it off, the game generator will not try to guarantee
+soluble grids; it will, however, still ensure that there are at
+least 2 squares of each colour on the grid at the start (since a
+grid with exactly one square of a given colour is \e{definitely}
+insoluble). Grids generated with this option disabled may contain
+more large areas of contiguous colour, leading to opportunities for
+higher scores; they can also take less time to generate.
+
+}
+
 
 \C{flip} \i{Flip}
 
@@ -1197,7 +1208,8 @@ time (but always one that is known to have a solution).
 
 \cfg{winhelp-topic}{games.dominosa}
 
-A normal set of dominoes has been arranged irregularly into a
+A normal set of dominoes - that is, one instance of every (unordered)
+pair of numbers from 0 to 6 - has been arranged irregularly into a
 rectangle; then the number in each square has been written down and
 the dominoes themselves removed. Your task is to reconstruct the
 pattern by arranging the set of dominoes to match the provided array