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Shortest possible solutions for all levels

By GCP42

These are the shortest possible solutions for all levels.

You can challenge these and try to find something that is shorter - well, you can find a solution that is as long as solution here, but shorter solutions are not possible.

How do I know? Well, apparently I am not too good at puzzles, playing this game I successfully only got maybe a half of the levels, some - merely by chance, wondering with animals around aimlessly, having no idea what I was doing. As much as I enjoyed the game, the puzzles were a little too difficult (which means that level design is very good, actually - for the game so simple and concise).

Desperate, I wrote a program, that essentially brute forced these puzzles - by trying all possible combinations of Up, Down, Left, Right.

Level 56 proved to be the most difficult - it required to analyse about 60000 positions and moves. Over 27 thousand animals drowned, and over 4 collisions occurred before the solution was found. I mean it still took maybe about a second or two for program to run through those positions and moves, so "difficult" is a relative term here.

With that, I present to you the result: the shortest possible solutions for all levels.

Have fun, and thank you devs for fun time playing and breaking the game.

More about writing that program and solving those puzzles in this video: https://youtu.be/WMZMj11lpCo

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Solutions

Level: 01. Solution: UURRRD
Level: 02. Solution: RDDRRUUR
Level: 03. Solution: RUDRLUUDRR
Level: 04. Solution: LRURULD
Level: 05. Solution: URRD
Level: 06. Solution: RDRRDL
Level: 07. Solution: URRRLDDDRRUUURD
Level: 08. Solution: DLUUR
Level: 09. Solution: UDRULU
Level: 10. Solution: DLRRUURD
Level: 11. Solution: DDRRRUULLLR
Level: 12. Solution: URULURRDLDRUL
Level: 13. Solution: DLDDDURUULLR
Level: 14. Solution: RLLDLDLRRRDLDRDD
Level: 15. Solution: URDURUURULULDLD
Level: 16. Solution: DRUUDL
Level: 17. Solution: UUUUDLDDURRRULUUDDRRRL
Level: 18. Solution: RDRUUDRRULR
Level: 19. Solution: RULLRULULDDL
Level: 20. Solution: UUDRRRLDULURRURDRRRL
Level: 21. Solution: ULLURRLDLLURRRU
Level: 22. Solution: URUULDLUDLDR
Level: 23. Solution: RRL
Level: 24. Solution: DRUR
Level: 25. Solution: DRRURD
Level: 26. Solution: DLRRUUDD
Level: 27. Solution: LDDLDRUUDLUUDRR
Level: 28. Solution: URRDLUUDDDRRRL
Level: 29. Solution: DRULDLURR
Level: 30. Solution: RUULDLRDL
Level: 31. Solution: URUDRLDU
Level: 32. Solution: RRULDDULUUURR
Level: 33. Solution: DURDLU
Level: 34. Solution: ULDRULDLURDUU
Level: 35. Solution: ULURDLDRUU
Level: 36. Solution: RDLURDRURUDLLL
Level: 37. Solution: LRDRLDLLRDRLU
Level: 38. Solution: RRULLUUDRRURUUDDLLLUDRRRU
Level: 39. Solution: RUDDLLULURULLDL
Level: 40. Solution: RLRUU
Level: 41. Solution: ULDLDL
Level: 42. Solution: LLUDUDLLDRRDL
Level: 43. Solution: UURRLLLRRDDDDRRRLRLL
Level: 44. Solution: UDRDRUUDRRULLUDRDDL
Level: 45. Solution: RDDUDULU
Level: 46. Solution: UUULRRLRRDDDUULLLLLULU
Level: 47. Solution: RULLUULRR
Level: 48. Solution: UDRLUDD
Level: 49. Solution: DURDLLUUDU
Level: 50. Solution: DLLRLRRDL
Level: 51. Solution: RDUDDDLUD
Level: 52. Solution: UURULLLUULLUULUULLD
Level: 53. Solution: ULDUULD
Level: 54. Solution: LRLURRLLD
Level: 55. Solution: RRDURUULLLRRDUL
Level: 56. Solution: RLRRRUUUDDLUUUDRULDDLRLRU

6 Comments

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GCP42 [author] 4 Aug, 2023 @ 3:28am

Looking back, this game was not as challenging as many other puzzle games.

- In the decision tree each node has maximum 3 branches (4 direction minus one you just made)
- Quite a few of them can be trimmed (when animals die).
- And with some caching logic you avoid positions that you already had.

That should be about it. 60.000 iterations - that’s nothing, compared to what some other puzzle games may require.

Having said that, still one hell of a difficulty for a human!

DeRockProject (jongyon7192p) 1 Aug, 2023 @ 12:38pm

Looking back 3 years later, I'm curious about people competing to make a program that solves a given random level of this game as fast as possible... I wonder what optimizations are possible

S.T.A.R.S Leon S. K. 31 Jul, 2023 @ 10:47pm

Thanks

♢Elvira♢ 18 Jun, 2021 @ 8:17am

Thanks for the guide!

DeRockProject (jongyon7192p) 27 Oct, 2019 @ 12:17am

I wonder how many of these solutions will be so unintended to surprise the devs themselves...

DeRockProject (jongyon7192p) 26 Oct, 2019 @ 11:56pm

oh my god...
OH MY GOD WE CAN SPEEDRUN THIS GAME <3

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