March 28, 2009 2:00 am

Troyis Game

I came across this game called Troyis. Being a theoretician, whenever I come across a new game, the first question that comes to my mind is “What is its complexity ?”. Here is the decision version of Troyis :

• TROYIS : Given an instance of Troyis, can you paint all the white cells in <= k clicks ?

Here is a puzzle : Prove (or disprove) that TROYIS is NP-complete.