Puzzle Room Escape - 16

[Mistery]

Challenging puzzles are all set in the puzzle room for you! Try to escape from the puzzle room by solving challenging movement puzzles with your sharp mind. Good luck and have fun!

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Please use spoilers to give hints:
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Please do not post a video walkthrough for 7 days.

[Rexroth]

goes to play (but this is really suzieQ turf right..)
2/3 solved! just the diamond one to go...
Ok got to put the kids to bed...
Good luck!

[Yvonne]

I'm joining you.
Let's see what the puzzles are about this time.


Edit:
I've also solved 2/3. I always start at the left side so the only one left to do is the one on the right side and that is a dificult one.

Edit:
I give up.
Not seeing it anymore.

[BchBum]

stuck w #3... grrrr, is it possible to solve???

[Kira699]

Apparently puzzle 3 is impossible to solve. The high score table is blank so apparently no one has A. solved it or B. it's impossible to solve.

[tipper75]

Apparently puzzle 3 is impossible to solve. The high score table is blank so apparently no one has A. solved it or B. it's impossible to solve.

It is solvable, I've done it before, it is however very difficult. I will let you know when I get it.

[Rexroth]

How long should we hold our breath tipper?

[Mistery]

No matter how I try, I always end up in a similar situation where the last piece can't go to its place:

How long should we hold our breath tipper?

Just a few days more
Why, how long can you hold your breath? Already struggling after 12 hours?

[tipper75]

I am waiting for the week end when I can out some real time to it.

[Emjay]

Puzzle number 3 is, indeed, impossible to solve. Despite the confusing way it has been drawn, it is, in fact, an extremely simple varient of the classic "slide the blocks" puzzle. You can "unfold" the initial picture into:



This is just a 2x3 slider puzzle. Whether or not such a puzzle can be solved depends on its "parity" -- the number of adjacent pairs of blocks that have to be swapped to reach the solution. No matter how much you move things around, the one thing you can never do is change the parity of the layout between an odd number and even number. (This can be proved. Trust me!) If a puzzle needs 3 pairs of blocks to be swapped when I start, and I slide one of them to the next empty space, it will then need either 1, 3 or 5 pairs to be swapped. But never 2 or 4, or, more significantly, never 0. Only initial positions of even parity can be solved.

Starting with the above initial position, we can make 3 simple moves to reach this:



Now you can see that to achieve the correct solution, all we have to do is swap the yellow and blue (and then move the yellow one onto the yellow base). This means the puzzle's parity is currently 1...

...which is an odd number...

...which therefore has no solution.

Anybody holding their breath, please feel fee to exhale again!

[Anza Power]

^ Exactomondo, I have a stack of 7 plastic 15-block picture slider jigsaws right in front of me and twiddling around with them all the time helps you learn a bit about them, if two blocks are swapped and only two blocks and the slider is according to normal rules, then it's unsolvable, I did the same that you did and drew it in paint...

This is just like Suppuzzle 2, even though it had no solution Suppuzzle 1 had a cheating way of beating it, maybe there's an out-of-the-box solution to this one...

[GentsBabe]

So has anyone solved the 3rd door yet? I've been trying - apparently the puzzle has changed since it was originally posted, but still no go at it.

[Technoboots]

Nope, it's still impossible. There is no-one listed with a high score.