A bunch of people who are clearly too smart to bother reading the instructions have managed to move it to the bottom right which is indeed trivial. Has anyone actually solved the thing themselves? Can you give us a screenshot of the completed puzzle from http://www.puzzleworld.org/SlidingBlockPuzzles/quz zle.htm?
I've been messing around with it on and off for a couple of hours and damned if I can get there - so close and yet so far...
I was given a wooden puzzle very similar to this several years ago - it has the same layout and initial state as the puzzle that one reader calls 'Klotski' but I know it as 'Free The Prisoner'.
A couple of my students coded it up in Java a few years ago - you can find it at:
http://activation.braininavat.net/archives/000069. html
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A bunch of people who are clearly too smart to bother reading the instructions have managed to move it to the bottom right which is indeed trivial. Has anyone actually solved the thing themselves? Can you give us a screenshot of the completed puzzle from http://www.puzzleworld.org/SlidingBlockPuzzles/quz zle.htm?
I've been messing around with it on and off for a couple of hours and damned if I can get there - so close and yet so far ...
I was given a wooden puzzle very similar to this several years ago - it has the same layout and initial state as the puzzle that one reader calls 'Klotski' but I know it as 'Free The Prisoner'. A couple of my students coded it up in Java a few years ago - you can find it at: http://activation.braininavat.net/archives/000069. html