Slide Par

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About this game

Slide Par is a sliding tile puzzle that tells you something the genre never does: the exact fewest moves the board in front of you can be finished in.

That number is not an estimate. Before a board is ever handed to you, the game solves it and finds the true minimum. If it cannot finish solving a board, that board is thrown away and replaced. So when it says par 23, 23 is real, and finishing in 23 means nothing was wasted.

WHAT YOU GET
- 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 boards, numbered so you can come back to one
- The exact minimum shown on 3x3 and 4x4
- Your best result kept per board, so a second attempt has a target
- Tap a tile far from the gap and the whole row or column slides at once
- Every move saved, per board size, so leaving mid-puzzle costs nothing

HONEST ABOUT HOW IT WORKS
A truly random 15-puzzle can need up to 80 moves, which is far beyond what a phone can prove. So boards are built within the range where the minimum can be verified. They are easier than a fully random shuffle, and the game says so on a screen you can open any time by tapping par. On 5x5 no minimum is shown at all, because none can be computed on a phone, and the game does not guess.

Every board is solvable. Which arrangements can be finished is decided by a rule about the tiles rather than by trial, so an impossible board is never built in the first place.

Everything runs on your phone. No account, no sign-up, no server, and it works with no signal at all. Nothing to unlock and no purchases of any kind.

What’s new

First release.

Slide Par shows the exact fewest moves each board can be finished in, worked out before the board is handed to you. Play 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5, tap a distant tile to slide a whole row, and pick up where you left off on every size.