Ricochet Robots
Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 12:21:00
Ricochet Robots is an online puzzle game built with SVG & Javascipt based on The Ricochet Robots Challenge which is in turn based on the German board game Rasende Roboter from Hans im Glück. The Ricochet Robots Challenge is very good, but I wanted a cleaner interface, keyboard controls & more than one puzzle a day!
The object of the game is to move a robot to a target square (indicated in the centre of the board) using as few moves as possible. Each robot can move up, down, left or right but once it starts moving in a given direction it can't stop until it hits a barrier or another robot.
Mouse Controls:
Click on a robot to select it
Click on the selected robot's column or row to move the robot in that direction
Keyboard Controls:
Press enter to cycle through the four robots
Use arrow keys to move the selected robot
U - Undo last move
R - Reset board
N - New puzzle
Share & share alike
It is annoying how obvious other people's better solutions always seem. You can swap links & solutions for individual puzzles very easily.
Click 'Link to this puzzle' & copy the URL in the prompt box. The numbers in the URL are the coordinates of the robots, then the targets then a final number to show which colour is the active robot/target.
Click on the link next to 'Best solution so far:' to copy the route of your best solution to the puzzle.
I may look into generating random board layouts at some point.
The object of the game is to move a robot to a target square (indicated in the centre of the board) using as few moves as possible. Each robot can move up, down, left or right but once it starts moving in a given direction it can't stop until it hits a barrier or another robot.
Mouse Controls:
Click on a robot to select it
Click on the selected robot's column or row to move the robot in that direction
Keyboard Controls:
Press enter to cycle through the four robots
Use arrow keys to move the selected robot
U - Undo last move
R - Reset board
N - New puzzle
Share & share alike
It is annoying how obvious other people's better solutions always seem. You can swap links & solutions for individual puzzles very easily.
Click 'Link to this puzzle' & copy the URL in the prompt box. The numbers in the URL are the coordinates of the robots, then the targets then a final number to show which colour is the active robot/target.
Click on the link next to 'Best solution so far:' to copy the route of your best solution to the puzzle.
I may look into generating random board layouts at some point.
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