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I got nerd sniped... Recently someone (I believe it was @erikras.com ) wrote something about murdle.com. Besides the excellent logic puzzle, there is this mini game called moriarty console: murdle.com/console/

murdle.comMURDLE by G. T. KarberSolve a new murder mystery every day!

Andreas Roth

@xent.dev

26 Nov 2024

In this minigame, you have a 3by3 grid of cells. Each cell can be on, or off. By clicking on a cell, you toggle the cell and the direct neighbours (NOT DIAGONALLY). Your task is turn the whole grid "on" as quickly as possible on as many random start positions as possible.

Andreas Roth

@xent.dev

It became apparent quickly, that there are "easy" starting positions and "hard" ones. For the harder ones, I always ended up randomly clicking around until I found a familiar place, where I knew how to finish. And then I wondered what the optimal way was to solve each starting position

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Andreas Roth

@xent.dev

26 Nov 2024

So after a long day of work in front of my laptop, I decided to not spent time with my wife and open up my macbook again to build a solver... And now, 2 hours later, it's done: andrewgreenh.github.io/moriarty-con... Each grid displays a number (the steps to finish) on the next cell to click.

andrewgreenh.github.ioMurdle Moriarty Console Solver

Andreas Roth

@xent.dev

26 Nov 2024

github.com/andrewgreenh... Whole source code can be found here.

What really surprised me was that there are some starting positions,that need EIGHT clicks to get to the end position... Sadly, this kind of killed the game for me, because it feels like it's really unlikely that I will memorize these harder states, so I will always have to fall back to guessing...