Sliding Block Puzzles
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Introduction
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The Sliding Block puzzle is based on the "14-15 Puzzle", invented
by Sam Lloyd in the last century when it was the popular equivalent
of today's Rubik Cube. This pack contains programs on cassette plus
instructions for six sliding-block puzzles: Alphabet, Numbers,
Sunscape, Logo, Pattern, Swans.

You can choose how many shuffling moves (between 2 and 511) are made
to each puzzle before you attempt to solve it, and the computer will
tell you how long you take, how many moves you make, and will solve it
for you if you get absolutely stuck.



Main Menu
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The menu offers a choice of six puzzles:

1. Alphabet
2. Numbers
3. Sunscape
4. Logo
5. Pattern
6. Swans

Select the number of the puzzle you want to see and then press
RETURN; the 'Searching' message will be displayed. Press the
PLAY button on your cassette recorder, and wait for the unshuffled
puzzle to be displayed. In the case of Alphabet and Numbers, the letters
and numbers are in order, and in the case of the pictures, the pieces
are all in position.



The Rules
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The Rules are the same for each program:

1. You are asked how many shuffling moves you would like. Type in a
number between 2 and 511, and press RETURN.

2. This is how you slide the blocks around:

Use the cursor-control keys to move the big square cursor
around over the blocks in the puzzle. Move it so that it sits on
top of a block which is adjacent to the empty space. When you
press RETURN, the square cursor slides the block into the empty
space.

You can slide one, two, three or four blocks at once by moving the
square cursor on to one of the blocks in a row with the empty space
at its end.

3. The number of moves made so far is displayed at the top of the
screen.

4. If you want to escape from the game, type S to stop. You will
then be given the option of watching the computer solve the puzzle
for you - respond with either Y or N as prompted:

Y. If you select Y, the puzzle is sorted fairly rapidly. To slow it down
so you can see what is going on, press the Space Bar. At the end of the
solution the computer will offer to rescramble the puzzle. You can put a
stop to the solution altogether, and carry on solving it yourself by
pressing S.

N. If you select N, you will be taken straight back to the menu.

5. Once you have solved any puzzle, the time taken to solve it is displayed
at the end.



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CHAIN"PUZZLE" (RETURN)