Curing Instant Insanity II

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Description

Instant Insanity II is a 4 by 4 sliding tile puzzle designed by Philip Orbanes. The packaging indicates that there is a unique solution to the puzzle, up to rotations of the columns and permutations on the rows. However, a recent paper by Richmond and Young shows that there are in fact two solutions to the puzzle. This paper presents several attempts at “fixing” the puzzle to guarantee a unique solution. Of these, the only one that guaranteed a unique solution was removing a color to create a 3 by 3 puzzle.

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