X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/puzzles/blobdiff_plain/de3b0e332712c81307a7800808b6d13d2c5cec93..886119cd7674c29166e0a884896423f87cfe22a9:/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}