Move the Block : Slide Puzzle - Block sliding challenge

Move the Block: Slide Puzzle is a straightforward and engaging sliding block puzzle game! Your objective is to maneuver the red block out of a 6x6 grid filled with wooden blocks by clearing a path for it. Each stage must be solved without any assistance in order to earn 3 stars and a super crown!

**HOW TO PLAY**

- Guide the red block to the exit.

- Horizontal blocks can shift sideways.

- Vertical blocks can move up and down.

- Clear the pathway to reach the solution!

**SPECIAL FEATURES**

- A wide array of puzzles to tackle!

- Utilize hints provided to discern the solution.

- Benefit from the Reset and Undo options for a fresh attempt.

- Enjoy seamless and captivating animations.

- Immerse yourself in the tranquil sound effects.

**EMAIL**

- Contact us via email at contactus@bitmango.com

**NOTES**

- Move the Block: Slide Puzzle includes various types of ads like banner, interstitial, video, and house ads.

- Our games are free to play, with the option to purchase in-app items such as AD FREE and hints.

- Enjoy gameplay across multiple devices and screen sizes, including smartphones and tablets!

Experience the ultimate slide puzzle game! Shift the wooden blocks and clear a path to claim victory at the exit!

Essential Techniques

Conveyer Belts

Given a tile we want to move, a place we want to move it to, and the location of the empty square, imagine a tile path that travels through all three tile locations and closes on itself in a loop. Think of this as a conveyer belt that we can slide tiles along to eventually bring our tile to its destination.

This path can take any meandering route, and sometimes we want that in order to avoid displacing certain tiles or to include certain tiles on the belt.

Carousels

The smallest instance of a conveyer belt is what I call a carousel: a 2x2 group of tiles that includes the empty space. These are occasionally useful in isolation, but they are very powerful when two carousels share a two-tile edge. Think of a group of 3x2 tiles as two 2x2 carousels that share an edge. By rotating one and then the other we can shift pieces on and off carousels to reorder them.

In the example below, we first arrange the green tile above the blue tile on the left side. Then we rearrange them to have blue above green. This is the essential trick to swapping adjacent two tiles that are out of order: we need to make them both part of a 3x2 (or 2x3) double carousel and then the swapping becomes easy.

That's it! Those are the two essential techniques for solving a sliding tile puzzle! I'll mention board size and then run through solving a board with those techniques below.

Larger Boards

The smallest size of sliding tile puzzle is 3x3 tiles. 4x4 are perhaps the most common, and then we can find 5x5, 6x6, and larger.

Larger boards are no harder than the modest 3x3; they just take longer. To solve a 4x4 puzzle, once we get the top row plus one of the side rows solved then we are left with a 3x3 puzzle.

For a 5x5 we could solve the top two rows and two of the edge rows to be left with a 3x3, and so on.

To solve a 3x3 puzzle (or subset) we start by solving one of the edges and then we're left with a 2x3 (or 3x2) double carousel.