A simplistic rewrite of the game's original Java applet in desktop application form.
Starting from a 7x7 array of all red cells, make all the tiles blue! Alien Tiles is a vivid and fiendishly difficult puzzle recently created and developed by Dr. Cliff Pickover (and programmed by Cam Mckechnie).
- Starting from all red, your goal is to make every cell in the puzzle turn all green, blue, or purple in as few moves as possible. Are you certain your solution requires the least number of moves?
- Starting from all red, create a board that is all purple except for a single, central red tile.
- Inside the 7x7 array, create a Xenoplastic Diamond -- a rotated 4x4 square of one color inlaid within tiles all of another color. [http://alientiles.com/xenop1.jpg] If you can ever create this magnificent specimen, you will have a long life filled with joy.
- To achieve ultimate peace and transcendence, create the following Alien Tile "Sivaraman" patterns: