VB Helper: HowTo: Display solutions to the equilateral triangle puzzle in Visual Basic 6

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Title	Display solutions to the equilateral triangle puzzle in Visual Basic 6
Description	This example shows how to display solutions to the equilateral triangle puzzle in Visual Basic 6.
Keywords	algorithms, games, graphics, mathematics, example, example program, Windows Forms programming, Visual Basic 6, VB 6
Categories	Algorithms, Algorithms, Puzzles and Games

This example displays the solutions to the puzzle Puzzle: find the equilateral triangles in Visual Basic 6. This program uses the following code to define the puzzle's 25 solutions.

' Define the solutions.
AddSolution 1, 3, 4
AddSolution 1, 4, 2
AddSolution 2, 4, 5
AddSolution 3, 6, 7
AddSolution 3, 7, 4
AddSolution 4, 7, 8
AddSolution 4, 8, 5
AddSolution 5, 8, 9
AddSolution 6, 10, 7
AddSolution 7, 10, 11
AddSolution 7, 11, 8
AddSolution 8, 11, 12
AddSolution 8, 12, 9

AddSolution 1, 6, 8
AddSolution 2, 7, 9
AddSolution 4, 10, 12
AddSolution 11, 3, 5

AddSolution 6, 11, 4
AddSolution 3, 8, 2
AddSolution 7, 12, 5
AddSolution 9, 4, 11
AddSolution 5, 7, 1
AddSolution 8, 10, 3

AddSolution 1, 10, 9
AddSolution 2, 6, 12

You can find these solutions manually by looking at the puzzle's dots, although some of the solutions are fairly non-obvious, or you can write a program to find the solutions for you. The example Find solutions to the equilateral triangle puzzle in Visual Basic 6 program finds the solutions.