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Ripley's IQ Game (Posted on 2005-07-23)

+----+
|  1 |
+----+----+
|  2 |  3 |
+----+----+----+
|  4 |  5 |  6 |
+----+----+----+----+
|  7 |  8 |  9 | 10 |
+----+----+----+----+----+
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
+----+----+----+----+----+

The board is a fifteen cell right triangular arrangement as shown. All cells except #15 have a token. A move is a jump over a vertically, horizontally or diagonally adjacent token to an empty cell; the jumped token is removed.

The object of the game is to leave just one piece on the board. Provide a solution sequence as to how you solved the puzzle; eg 6-15, 8-10, etc.

I can get a solution set of 13 moves (in the middle game the order of sequence may differ from the solution which I have recorded.

To play this game, already constructed, go here
Note: they do not offer a solution!

See The Solution Submitted by brianjn

Rating: 4.0000 (5 votes)

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Three solutions

| Comment 3 of 17 |

Here are three different sequences that do it.

Game One:

6-15

8-10

2-9

1-6

7-2

10-3

14-5

12-14

15-13

3-8

13-4

2-7

11-4

Game Two:

6-15

13-6

11-13

4-11

14-12

1-4

3-10

11-6

10-3

3-8

4-13

12-14

15-13

Game Three:

6-15

11-6

3-10

13-6

10-3

4-11

3-8

11-13

1-4

14-12

4-13

12-14

15-13

Posted by Penny on 2005-07-23 12:48:30

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