Tips for Row Slide Puzzle
Basic Steps
This game is quite similar to Rubik's Cube, but it is a lot easier. Basically we should finish the puzzle row by row.
For ease of illustration, we label the tiles as follows:

You shouldn't have any problems finishing the first row:

To move the 5 to its correct position, follow the procedure: move down, move left or right, move up:

Do the same to move the 6 to its correct position:

Now you cannot do the same for the 7, because you will disrupt the 5 and 6. All we need is to modify the procedure slightly:

Follow similar steps to finish all the rows until there is only one row left:

We should swap the tiles in the last row until we finish. Suppose we arrive at the following situation:

Now we swap 15 and 16 first. Use the following formula:



Use a similar trick to swap 13 and 14 and we are done.
For ease of illustration, we label the tiles as follows:

You shouldn't have any problems finishing the first row:

To move the 5 to its correct position, follow the procedure: move down, move left or right, move up:

Do the same to move the 6 to its correct position:

Now you cannot do the same for the 7, because you will disrupt the 5 and 6. All we need is to modify the procedure slightly:

Follow similar steps to finish all the rows until there is only one row left:

We should swap the tiles in the last row until we finish. Suppose we arrive at the following situation:

Now we swap 15 and 16 first. Use the following formula:



Use a similar trick to swap 13 and 14 and we are done.
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