Urgghh!

[jamason56]

<Read sarcastically and with humour> I just bought this game from Steam and I must tell you I am very frustrated. I've done alright (I suppose if getting just a star for completing the puzzle counts). Time? Moves? No way... I'm up to the fire-spinner level and over 600 moves! I'm only one tile away! I can make any 3 'fire-spitters' light up at any time... but to get the fourth? No way! What happens when I get up to a thousand moves? The scoreboard only has room for three digits! In the old day of plastic thingys (whatever these kind of slide puzzles are called) it was a simple matter to tear the thing apart and move the remaining space to where ever it needed to be. Same thing with a Rubik Cube... simply tear it apart or rearrange the stickers to 'solve' the puzzle. What am I supposed to do with Cogs? I want dearly to be able to reach into my monitor and do the same thing. As I said in the Subject line... 'Urgghh'! John

UPDATE: I was able to solve the Spinner with 370 moves and 10 minutes.

[Brendan]

Hey John, sounds like you're enjoying the game.    No really, glad you've stuck with it long enough to get as far as you already have.  To be perfectly honest when Rob first introduced me to the game I wasn't much better than you describe (though after working on it for a year I can now knock out a triple gold on End Credits without breaking a sweat, /brag ).

If you hadn't seen, Lotharstar posted some good solving strategies in this very forum earlier this month.  I've got a few others that people could probably benefit from as well, if I get a chance maybe I'll write some up tomorrow, maybe turn them into a page on the official site.  We've tossed around the idea of getting some kind of hints in the game itself as well.

--Brendan