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Everything in order, with the blank upper left.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:58 pm

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kie_yeo · Guest

no numbers/letters under silver scratch off bit

**Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:29 am

Juxta · Unfettered Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675

Kie-Yeo - this is unusual, but not unheard of - I believe that someone else contacted CardsSPLATPerplexcity.com with a similar problem and they issued a replacement. You will of course need to give them the blank one back Wink

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**Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:05 pm

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sparhawk1974 · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Derby, UK

I know this has been solved but for anyone, who ike me wants to do this for themselves heres a link to a site that gives you one of these puzzles to play around with on-line. It doesnt give you the answer mind but its easier than making your own!!!

I have solved it but cant remeber what order i did things in!!! Embarassed

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:43 am

sparhawk1974 · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Derby, UK

Ooooops, missed the link! Here it is.

www.mathsnet.net/puzzles/sliders/

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:48 am

sparhawk1974 · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Derby, UK

Yeeeehhhhhyyyy! I finally solved this one, took ages though writing down every move etc!! Cool

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:18 pm

Skizz · Boot Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 37

For anyone who wants help working out this puzzle, I made a little WindowsXP application that you'll find really useful: here. Download, unzip and run the "slide.exe". It can save a history of moves in the format the PC web site accepts. No more having to make long lists of moves or forgetting how you got your solution!

Skizz

**Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:06 pm

Hobbess · Kl00 Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Glasgow

Like the new program skizz although no idea how I would ever have figured out the final solve.

Thanks to cronogenesis

Tried a solver program online, it did the solve in 188 moves!

**Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:44 pm

Magma · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 119

I used Taniguchi Yukio's sliding block puzzle solver and it got a solution in 44 moves too (After 5 days solid number-crunching), however it was a different 44 moves!

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yuki-tani/index_e.html

Could someone run this through as a solve on the Perplex City site and post here if it works or not?

**Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:21 pm

sherbet · Boot Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 20

elo, yes i am too nice...

i came on to check my answers, and saw ure post. i figured i have sooooooooo many fails, another wouldnt matter...guess what, i now have another!they should give points fer fails as well!!

so to clarify, nope, it didnt work! Laughing

**Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:03 pm

Magma · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 119

Asked card support about it, they said this:

**Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:22 pm

Lord Peter · Kilroy Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 1

**Posted:** Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:00 pm

rhaining · Kilroy Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

Looking for a hint, if anyone's still listening

**Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:32 am

Legion of doom · Greenhorn Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Germany

Why is there a solution, if it's insoluble, like I read in wikipedia? Shouldn't we win the $1000 prize Confused

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 2:18 am

Magma · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 119

They aren't asking you to swap two squares over, they actually state on the card it would be unfair to do so seeing how impossible it is. What they want you to do is change the arrangement to another allowable configuration in the shortest number of moves.

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 6:55 am

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