Surely you jest. I spent hours working on a clumsy brute-force Sudoku algorithm for Problem 96, and it needed half an hour to grind through fifty boards. Board #47 was especially annoying and required 440,865 steps. 5 9 _ _ 8 _ _ _ 1 _ 3 _ _ _ _ _ 8 _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 8 _ _ _ 5 _ _ 6 _ _ 2 _ _ _ 4 1 _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 _ _ _ _ _ 3 _ 1 _ _ _ 2 _ _ 7 9 _ 2 _ 7 _ _ 4 _ _ Perhaps by "you" you mean a large, talented team of researchers and programmers backed by a corporation with a market cap heading toward a trillion USD. Perhaps our species can maintain some dignity by letting Google take the prize rather than Facebook. _ _ 1 _ _ 7 _ 9 _