Sliding Blocks Puzzle

This assignment includes several resources.

• The assignment specification (Word doc)
• The SlidingBlocks project, which will be available in your personal or team SVN repository after you tell me about your teams. This project includes:
  • a lib folder with .class files for checking solutions as described in the specification
  • an easy folder with several simpler puzzles and their solutions
  • a hard folder with several challenging puzzles and their solutions
  • a medium folder with some intermediate puzzles and their solutions

  The easy and hard sample folders include files named README.txt that describe the samples. See the runtests scripts in all three folders for more info.

• A transcript demonstrating how to check out and run your code on addiator.

Our puzzles come from several sources:

• Winning Ways, E.R. Berlekamp et al., Academic Press, 1982
• Sliding Piece Puzzles, by Edward Hordern, Oxford University Press, 1986
• http://www.johnrausch.com/SlidingBlockPuzzles/
• http://www.slidingblock.tk/
• http://www.cs.tut.fi/~zam/home/lists/slidingmenu.html
• http://www.brainyday.com/jared/flash/sliders.html

The original version of this assignment came from the (very cool) catalog of nifty assignments at Stanford.