Blindfold Slide Puzzle logo: a 4x4 grid with each block containing a number. ranging 1 - 15.
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Blindfold Slide Puzzle

Try this fun math game!

About two years, I created Blindfold Tile Puzzle, based on the game 2048.

2048 is played on a 4 by 4 grid, where you combine identical numbers to produce their sum.  Hence, in the above puzzle, with line three reading: 2, 2, 4, 32, you can combine 2 plus 2 to generate a 4, resulting in 4, 4, 32, open-space.  Then you can combine 4 plus 4 to generate an 8, resulting in 8, 32, open-space, open-space.  You win the game when you combine 1024 plus 1024, yielding 2048.   I’ve heard the game called “Candy Crush” for math geeks.

Once Blindfold Tile Puzzle was published, fans starting asking for the sliding tile puzzle known as 15, also called the Boss Puzzle, Game of Fifteen, and Mystic Square.   It’s played on a 4 by 4 grid of numbered square tiles, from 1 to 15, in random order with one tile missing.   The 16th space is empty.  The object of the puzzle is to place the tiles in order by making sliding moves that use the empty space.

Originally, I thought this game was too boring, but getting several requests each month changed my mind.  I built the game, and started testing it recently.  Here’s the Wikipedia history:

Some facts for math geeks:

You can download Blindfold Sliding Puzzle here.

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