I get a sense of the puzzle's components, but I don't follow what actually constitutes solving the puzzle. Can you be a little more specific?
On 11/10/2010 1:55 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all, While this is not strictly programming, I wonder if anyone can point me to a place where I can find out about a general solution to a puzzle. The puzzle is simply eight tiles, each of which can be slid up, down, left, or right. They are numbered 1-8 and are on a grid with 9 squares, so one square is empty to let the pieces slide. There has to be a mathematical way of figuring out (A) how many moves would be required to solve this and (B) what those moves are. Again, this is not programming, but I suspect that I will eventually run into something like it on http://www.projecteuler.net...
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