Ant Puzzle
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Object: Make the ant walk the longest possible distance. More than 600 moves are possible!
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Contributed by: Karl Scherer (September 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Details
When the ant has walked a round of 30 steps, all red tiles (apart from the starting tile) revert to their original status and become available again. This will be repeated, but each round will be one step longer than the previous one. Hence, it becomes harder and harder to prepare a path for the ant.
To give you some head start, the ant only starts moving with the third click. Note that you never click the ant itself (except when the ant is still at its home base; you can rotate the home base with the ant in it by clicking it). Rather, you click tiles that lie on the ant's path, and you design the path by rotating the pieces of the path.
Controls
There are two control buttons at the top: • click "reset" to revert to the starting position • click "back" to undo the last step
History
This game was published previously as the Zillions game "Ant" by the same author. The author has managed to score more than 600. Try to beat your own record.
Permanent Citation
"Ant Puzzle"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AntPuzzle/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: September 26 2014