--- title: Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles description: A developer built a puzzle generator for the Cat Crimes board game after the commercial puzzle cards became too difficult for his 5-year-old. The program... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/generating-infinite-age-appropriate-cat-crimes-puzzles-azrla7zmg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles | daily.dev og:description: A developer built a puzzle generator for the Cat Crimes board game after the commercial puzzle cards became too difficult for his 5-year-old. The program... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/generating-infinite-age-appropriate-cat-crimes-puzzles-azrla7zmg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aZrlA7ZMG.png og:image:alt: Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles **[Robert Heaton](https://daily.dev/sources/robertheaton)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer built a puzzle generator for the Cat Crimes board game after the commercial puzzle cards became too difficult for his 5-year-old. The program generates random puzzles, validates them for a unique solution, and applies difficulty constraints (e.g., limiting exact-position clues) to keep them beginner-friendly. A ChatGPT integration mode is also included, where the tool validates AI-generated puzzles in an iterative debugging loop. A PDF of 20 pre-generated puzzles and the open-source code are available for download. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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