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From: Colm Piercy <ils@indigo.ie>
Subject: Sliding Tiles Games ?
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Hi all .... just a quick question ..

I suddenly find myself in need of a technique
for solving those sliding tiles puzzles ... you
know - the ones with the picture on them which
gets jumbled around and then you spend hours
trying to solve them  ;->

We're going to use this as part of a demo here.
The program will need to take the jumbled tiles
and moving one at a time, recreate the complete
image, in the minimum number of moves.

Any suggestions ?

Colm.


PS:  'cheating' by replaying in reverse the moves 
used to create the jumble would not go down well  :-)
