Allow more general cross-shaped boards in Pegs

I found a plausible looking Web page claiming that various different
sizes of cross are soluble, and some of them are quite widespread.  I've
enabled the ones that are symmetric enough that the existing game
generator can lay them out.
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Ben Harris
2023-02-12 01:24:58 +00:00
parent 97b03cc67a
commit c139aba078
2 changed files with 33 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -1446,8 +1446,9 @@ These parameters are available from the \q{Custom...} option on the
\dd Controls whether you are given a board of a standard shape or a
randomly generated shape. The two standard shapes currently
supported are \q{Cross} and \q{Octagon} (also commonly known as the
English and European traditional board layouts respectively).
supported are \q{Cross} (in various sizes) and \q{Octagon}.
The 7\by\.7 Cross is the traditional English board layout.
The Octagon is the traditional French one.
Selecting \q{Random} will give you a different board shape every
time (but always one that is known to have a solution).