Questions tagged [sliding-puzzle]
Sliding puzzles are combination puzzles that involve moving flat pieces around to achieve a target configuration. Examples are 15-game or 2048.
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Sliding retrieval
Thanks, Uncle (the story)
My slightly mad uncle recently left for the space colonies, and passed his pallet goods business to me. The rectangular warehouse is full of pallets of goods except for the ...
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Minimum cost of solving the Eni-Puzzle
You're tasked with writing an algorithm to efficiently estimate cost of solving an Eni-Puzzle from a scrambled state as follows:
You're given m lists of containing n elements each(representing the ...
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Is it a good 2048 board?
This is my first question here, so any suggestions in the comments would be appreciated! Thanks ;)
Introduction
One very common strategy for the 2048 game is never ever swiping down. This positions ...
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Make a picture into a sliding puzzle
Summary
The goal of this challenge is to create an undone image-version of a 15-puzzle / sliding puzzle also called taquin in french.
Details:
Given an input composed of:
an image,
an integer ...
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2048-like array shift
Assume we want to shift an array like it is done in the 2048 game: if we have two equal consecutive elements in array, merge them into twice the value element.
Shift must return a new array, where ...
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How do I get more Klotski in my life?
I really love sliding tile puzzles, but recently, I haven't had time for them. Hence, I need a program to give me my fix of sliding-tile puzzles, specifically Klotski puzzles.
Your input will be in ...
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Code a Code Slidey Puzzle!
The most recognizable sliding puzzle is the fifteen puzzle. It has a 4 by 4 grid, 15 tiles, and one empty grid space. The tiles can only move into the empty space and must always be in line with the ...
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Program a 2048 AI using an existing Framework
EDIT : Recently, my question has been proposed as a duplicate of 2048 Bot Challenge. I would like to stress that this question is different from that question, and will require answers to be thought ...
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Solve the Rotation puzzle
On some old Nokia phones, there was a variation of the fifteen puzzle called Rotation. In this variation, instead of sliding one tile at a time, you rotated four tiles at a time in one direction.
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Play a perfect game of 2048
Your job is to simulate a mathematically perfect game of 2048. The idea is to find the theoretical upper limit of how far a 2048 game can go, and find how to get there.
To get an idea of what this ...
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2048 Bot Challenge
We have been cloning 2048, analyzing 2048, but why haven't we played it yet? Write a 555 byte javascript snippet to play 2048 automatically, the best score after an hour will count (see scoring below)....
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Solve a deterministic version of 2048 using the fewest bytes
Write a program that generates a winning sequence of moves to the deterministic variant of the game 2048. The sequence should be in the form of a string of numbers 0-3, with 0: up, 1: right, 2: down, ...
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Create a simple 2048 game clone
2048 is an incredibly fun and addictive game in which the goal is to create a tile with 2048 on it.
Here's a short description of the game:
Pressing an arrow key will slide all the blocks in the ...
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Check if the 15 puzzle is solvable
The fifteen puzzle is peculiar in that only half the possible states of arrangement are solvable. If you flip the 14 and 15 tiles, there is no way you can slide the blocks so that they are flipped ...
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Solve the 15 Puzzle (the tile-sliding puzzle)
The 15 Puzzle is a famous puzzle involving sliding 15 tiles around on a 4x4 grid. Starting from a random configuration, the goal is to arrange the tiles in the correct order. Here is an example of a ...
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Solve the 8 Puzzle
The 8 Puzzle is the smaller variant of the 15Puzzle (or the Sliding puzzle).
You have a 3x3 grid which is filled with numbers from 0-8 (0 denotes the blank tile) ...
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