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The Journeymaker 23 Oct, 2023 @ 5:30pm

Thoughts on the Demo

This is a cute game with a fun premise.

However, I wish the symbols were explained in the bee tutorial panels, and you didn’t have to find out what they meant by clicking the “Hint” button.

Also, sometimes, the bee panel would spring up without any text on it, and clicking would not make it go away, making me unable to lick on the “Hint” button unless I used the zoom function.

I also got stuck on Level 12, I’m not sure what I missed.

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oldladygreybun has Lonely Path

24 Oct, 2023 @ 5:59am

For level 12 - the clue is to keep your 1 on top of the pile and move 2's down beside it so that you can use the 'move the whole stack' thing (which depends on adjacency). It will - necessarily - mean that you're shifting the stack back and forth between the left hand column and right hand column - thereby enabling clear paths up the paths to enable turning over new tiles for every move.

My solution only got 4 out of 6 stars, so there must be a way to do this even a little bit more efficiently - I'm guessing at the first couple of moves - but I'm happy enough with what I managed. And at least gets you past 'stuck' :-)

Last edited by oldladygreybun; 24 Oct, 2023 @ 6:00am

The Journeymaker 25 Oct, 2023 @ 2:25am

Originally posted by oldladygreybun:
For level 12 - the clue is to keep your 1 on top of the pile and move 2's down beside it so that you can use the 'move the whole stack' thing (which depends on adjacency). It will - necessarily - mean that you're shifting the stack back and forth between the left hand column and right hand column - thereby enabling clear paths up the paths to enable turning over new tiles for every move.

My solution only got 4 out of 6 stars, so there must be a way to do this even a little bit more efficiently - I'm guessing at the first couple of moves - but I'm happy enough with what I managed. And at least gets you past 'stuck' :-)

Thanks for the help!
I still got stuck though, so I had to look up the solution in the following video. Apparently the trick is to move a stack of 2-1-2 onto the other “2” tiles. But I’m confused. Doesn’t that violate the rules of the stack? How can I move a “2” tile with down arrows onto another “2” with down arrows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNelGfvdN5c

oldladygreybun has Lonely Path

26 Oct, 2023 @ 5:47pm

My solution is actually 2 stars more efficient than the video there ;-)

And - no, you're not moving a 2-1-2 stack onto another 2-DOWN. As you say, that would mean violating the game rules. The stack you're moving has got the 1-UP on top the whole time. So that you are in effect repeating over and over a move of putting a 1-UP stack on top of a 2-DOWN single tile. As your stack grows higher it is (from top down) 1-2-2-2-2-2....

I don't have video capability but my step-by step is as follows:

- Move the 1-UP tile on top of the 2-DOWN tile - makes a 1-2 stack (counting from the top downwards in the stack)
- This frees up a clear bit of path in the left column, so you can flip over the tile lying there (LH, 2nd from bottom) - which is another 2-DOWN tile.
- Move that 2-DOWN down to beside the 1-2 stack. R.click on the 1-2 stack to move the whole stack on top of the single 2-DOWN tile. (stack is now 1-2-2)
-This frees up a bit of clear path in the right column, so turn over the next tile there (RH, 2nd from bottom). This is also a 2-DOWN tile.
- Move it from the R column to L column, into the free space just above the 1-2-2 stack. - - R.click the stack and move it on top of the single 2-DOWN tile (The stack is now 1-2-2-2).
- There is still a clear path in the R. column, so turn over the next tile there (RH, 2nd from top). This is also a 2-DOWN.
- Move it into the L.column, into the clear space just below the 1-2-2-2 stack.
- R.click on the stack and move it on top of the single 2-DOWN tile. (The stack is now 1-2-2-2-2).
- There is now a clear path in the R.column all the way up to the last tile there. So turn it over and move it into the free space in the L.column.

= A full clear path from bottom to top. (And 5 out of 6 possible stars for the solution.)

The level can be solved in different ways, for example criss-crossing the stack back and forth between L. and R. column. But the main point is the same - keep the 1-UP on top of the stack and use R.click to move the whole 1-UP topped stack onto 2-DOWN tiles, one by one.

Hope this makes sense to you :-)

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