Modern Sliding Puzzles

Slide & Turn

IPP 16 Exchange / Luxemburg

designed by Herman Witteveen

Uhr / Clock

designed by Jean Claude Constantin

made by Jean Claude Constantin

The Crocs in the Billabong

IPP 27 Exchange / Australia

designed by Michael L. Powell

Dustin puzzle (US patent: US 1993211)

Description

50 moves

8 pieces

Difficulty: medium - difficult

Playing Time: > 1 hour

Solution

designed by F. G. Dustin

Dimension: 12 cm * 12 cm

no copyrights

Dustin puzzle (US patent: US 1993211)

designed by F. G. Dustin

Dimension: 12.5 cm * 13.5 cm

no copyrights

Viking's Journey

designed by Tim Snyder

Two Sliding Squares

IPP 26 Exchange / Boston

Slide the pieces to form a single square

designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk

made by Walter Hoppe, Laser Perfect

Two Sliding Squares

Slide the pieces to form a single square

designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk

made by BITS & PIECES

problem 1:

30 moves

Difficulty: easy (warm up)

Playing Time: < 5 minutes

Solution

problem 3:

24 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes (warm up)

problem 4:

160 moves

Difficulty: easy-medium

Playing Time: 30 minutes

problem 5:

form a T out of the pieces of the square in the middle of the frame

130 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: 30 minutes

problem 6:

34 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes (warm up)

problem 1:

30 moves Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes (warm up)

Solution

problem 3:

24 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes (warm up)

The picture illustrates the interlocking of the sliding pieces

when solving the problem.

The Sliding Cyrillic Letters Puzzle

56 (54) moves

designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk

Dimension: 11 cm * 11 cm

The Sliding Digits Puzzle

27 moves

Exchange pieces 8 and 7 as shown on the right.

designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk

Dimension: 11 cm * 11 cm

BE HAPPY

37 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

BY THE WAY

40 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

ENJOY LIFE

43 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

I LOVE dAD

39 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

SOLUTION

47 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

The End

51 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

LET iT GO Problem 1

11 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

LET iT GO Problem 2

49 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

GO FOR iT Problem 1

45 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

GO FOR iT Problem 2

30 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

i LOVE YOU Problem 1

25 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

i LOVE YOU Problem 2

40 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

i LOVE YOU Problem 3

25 moves

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Hexangular Jam

designed by Hirokazu Iwasawa (Iwahiro)

Pentangular Jam

designed by Hirokazu Iwasawa (Iwahiro)

Rightangular Jam

Yen in a Jam

designed by Hirokazu Iwasawa (Iwahiro)

My Tower of Hanoi

5 problems

8 + 1 pieces + central slider

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Dimension: 13 * 18 cm

problem 1:

115 moves

Solution

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 20 minutes

problem 2:

112 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 10 minutes

problem 3:

109 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 20 minutes

problem 4:

124 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 20 minutes

problem 5:

82 moves

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes

problem 1:

exchanging the numbers left to right

72 moves

Solution

problem 2:

44 moves

problem 3:

57 moves

problem 4:

36 moves

problem 5:

68 moves

problem 6:

46 moves

problem 7:

46 moves

problem 8:

57 moves

problem 9:

37 moves

problem 10:

59 moves

problem 1:

make all the butterflies fly outwards instead of inwards

36 moves

problem 2:

50 moves

problem 3:

40 moves

problem 4:

38 moves

Football Match

IPP 34 Exchange / London

designed by Diniar Namdarian

made by Dr. Hiren Shah

Moon and Star

7 pieces

3 problems

problem 1:

40 moves

Solution

inspired by Get My Goat Puzzle

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Dimension: 9 cm * 16 cm

Fence The Sheep Difficult Version

Get the sheep into the fenced area

10 pieces

168 moves

Solution

inspired by Fence The Cow Puzzle

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Dimension: 12 cm * 14.5 cm

problem 3:

81 moves

Difficulty: difficult

Playing Time: more than 4 hours

Solution

problem 4:

112 moves

Difficulty: difficult

Playing Time: more than 4 hours

Solution

126 moves

37 moves

125 moves

80 moves

92 moves

83 moves

problem 2:

more than 30 moves

Difficulty: difficult

Playing Time: more than 4 hours

Solution

problem 1:

more than 30 moves

Difficulty: difficult

Playing Time: more than 3 hours

Solution

Stacking Cups

IPP 34 Exchange / London

6 pieces

moves: interlocked moves

problem 1:

41 moves

Solution

problem 2:

48 moves

Solution

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Dimension: 21 cm * 10 cm

Just Six Pieces

41 moves

6 pieces

moves: interlocked moves

Solution

inspired by Minoru Abes Egg Puzzle

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Dimension: 11 * 14 cm

Sliding Magic Square

around 91 moves

12 pieces

inspired by Minoru Abes Slide 9 Puzzle

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Sliding Magic Square II

47 moves

12 pieces

Solution

inspired by Minoru Abes Slide 9 Puzzle

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Sliding Maze

78 moves

9 pieces + Slider

designed by Diniar Namdarian

Two Real Dice / Slide' N' Roll

80 moves

change the positions of the two dice by sliding the pieces

and by rolling the dice over any of their edges

on to the neighbour vacant cell.

IPP 20 Exchange

designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk / Serhiy Grabarchuk Jr.

made by Dirk Weber

Piece

capping stones

sliding pieces with and without openings

4 acrobats (Orange, Yellow, Red, Blue)

Yellow and orange pieces

Two acrobats are in this challenge: the orange and yellow

acrobat. One yellow and one orange piece are involved.

Goal: From the starting position (as shown to the right),

bring the yellow acrobat to the yellow sliding piece and

the orange acrobat to the orange sliding piece.

Remember: The yellow acrobat may not touch the

orange piece, the orange acrobat not the yellow piece.

After setting up the position as shown to the right,

swap the acrobats' positions, i.e.:

Goal: Bring the yellow acrobat to the top-left field

(where the orange acrobat sits at the beginning) and

bring the orange acrobat to the bottom-right field

(yellow's starting position).

Remember the distance rule: Acrobats may not

come too close to each other.

First, set up the puzzle as shown to the right. All

four acrobats will be involved this time, no

stationary pieces, but not many pieces with

openings either. When you set up the acrobats,

please notice that they all have a little head, little

feet and two hands. For this challenge it is

important that you set them up "heads-up", so that

all are standing upright.

Goal:

Bring the red acrobat (that's the one in the bottom

row at the beginning) to the bottom-left field. At the

end, all acrobats must be standing upright again,

i.e. their heads up, feet down under the board.