While creating the Numbers Game, I envisioned creating a solver for the puzzle to support gameplay. One advantage of creating a solver was to avoid choosing a target that didn’t have a perfect solution.

It became clear that it was faster to compute the total by randomly selecting numbers and operators rather than picking a target randomly and trying to solve the problem.

I continued to create the Numbers Round Solver despite not requiring a solver for the actual game. It proved to be an interesting project, and a handy little app. Try It Now.