1st Impressions

This puzzle game is incredibly beautiful, but frustrates me to no end. As you can see in the screen shot, I am 36 moves into the puzzle and literally not a bit closer to solving it. While I enjoy relaxing puzzle games, and while the music and falling petals were incredibly beautiful and soothing, I found this game to be so challenging that I wondered if a solution was even possible. But, according to Google, a 81-move solution does exist. Doesn’t mean I’m almost half-way there though! LOL

Game rules are simple. Move the tiles around so that you can get the largest piece, marked in red, out the “exit” on the bottom. Simple in concept. But this one is a real MENSA test. Think of it as one of those parking lot games where you have to get the car out, but with not enough space to move much. If you like a super challenging puzzle, then this one’s for you. I seriously doubt you will find a more mentally stimulating and challenging puzzle for $0.99.

My suggestions for the game are simple.  It appears that there are other configurations of this type game.  Having more than one level to solve would be nice.  It may be doubly frustrating, but still would be nice.  The second though would be to add some solution to this puzzle.  Either a link to an online solution or, better yet, some animated version of the pieces being moved until a solution is reached.  Finally, I’d love to be able to move a piece across two places without having to move it one place at a time.  Even if it counted as two moves, it would still be more intuitive, I believe.  These suggestions aside though, this is a great little mind-bender.  And trust me, I’ve seen the solution.  It *is* possible to crack this.  So go spend a buck on it and try it out for yourself.  It’s a great way to keep yourself humble.