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Welcome to the Voltorb-Flip wiki! – Made by Francis Vo

Set up without Netbeans:
1) Download JRuby 1.4.0 Windows Executable+JRE from http://jruby.org/
2) Install Jruby (Sorry about this being jruby, Java is needed for the Interface)
3) Download my ruby file from http://github.com/firefrancis/Voltorb-Flip/downloads
4) Uncompress zip
5) Open Command-line by going to Start>Run… and typing in cmd
6) cd to where you uncompress my source to.
7) cd in the folder lib
8) Type in command “jruby voltorbflip.rb”

Note: Download Source will download the whole Netbeans project, but the voltorbflip.rb will be in there too.

How it works:
The program starts with the board of all 6s, fill in the sides and the bottom with sums and voltorbs as you see in the game.
If you know some of the boxes, replace the 6s with those, this will make it faster for my program to solve.
Once you are done, press solve, and wait.
The board will change colors, find any orange 5 and fill them all in with the numbers you get from the game.
If there are no 5s, then look for black 6s because these are the best guess to get 2 and 3. Note that there is a chance that there is a voltorb. Guess one of the 6s and fix again.
Repeat filling and fixing until you finished.

These are the color codes for solver
0 – voltorb
green – finished
orange 5 – safe place please fill them in
blue 6 – only 1 or 0 remain here
yellow 6 – Best place to guess but only 1 or 0, this will help the program to finish
black 6 – Best place to guess with chance of 2 or 3
red 6 – don’t guess here no idea what it is yet
Good luck
~ Francis Vo
email any questions to [email protected]
Report any issues at http://github.com/firefrancis/Voltorb-Flip/issues