E: 30/07 Win 1 of 20 Rizla+ Tents

dooby

hamster wrote: »

Did it in 46

I couldn't work with the picture so I did a screen grab of the starting position, printed it out, turned the squares into letters A, B, C etc. and worked it out from there.

The starting position changes when you click RESTART GAME so a lot depends on how scrambled things are when you start.




Then it was time to get serious. :cool:

It's such a common type of puzzle there had to be software somewhere to solve it so first I tracked that down. Then after a few clicks of RESTART GAME it seems there are only 6 different starting positions. According to the software the smallest number of moves for solving the puzzle from those six start positions ranges from 32 to 42.

If you want to do it in 32 moves click RESTART GAME until the top left corner piece is in the right position then use the following sequence....

DRDRURULLD
LURDDLURRU
LDDRURULDL
LU

Where 'D' means slide a tile DOWN into the empty space, 'R' means slide to the right, 'L' to the left and 'U' slide a tile UP.


I don't smoke and don't want the tent, I just like puzzles :eek:

OMG!!!!!!!! :eek:

Thanks though. I am in awe of geeks like you. I don't mean that an insult I mean wow that's clever and lateral thinking and logic and determination all rolled into one. Amazing! If you work I hope your boss appreciates you.

monsieur_epargnant

Thanks so much hamster! I'd have never got that. It looked a complete disaster still until the last row of your clue. You clever clogs!! :j