8 Puzzle

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The 8 Puzzle is a tile based game, invented in 1874, where each tile can be moved horizontally or vertically subject to a constraint that the adjacent tile must be an empty tile. This sliding number puzzle game requires you to use your brains. This game is also known by the names - Sliding Puzzle Game, Tile Based Number Puzzle, Sliding Puzzle etc

Any valid 8-Puzzle can be completed within 31 moves.

WHY SHOULD I DOWNLOAD THIS PARTICULAR 8 PUZZLE APP?

We only give you valid configurations to play with, when you Shuffle. Note that half of the combinations are unsolvable and unlike some other apps we don't give you unsolvable puzzles.

There is a Solution for every generated puzzle, which gives

you the minimum number of moves required to solve the problem. You cannot do better than that!

There is Puzzle Solver included. If you wan to know the solution for a particular puzzle, drag and drop to create the puzzle in the 8 Puzzle solver. It gives you the solution in minimum number of moves.

We use A-Star (A*) to find the path with the shortest no of moves to the goal. Hence, the solution displayed will the best solution with the minimum no of moves