Setting Sun Puzzle
The secret to solving The Setting Sun puzzle involves thinking about:
how big is the red sun piece?
how can the big red sun piece go past the horizontal piece?
what does the big red sun piece need to "slide" on?
what does the big red sun piece need to "go down" on?
what pieces need to be go up and ready to go behind the big red sun piece once the big red sun piece goes down?
This is the starting position.
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I like to start by moving the horizontal piece to the right.
I shuffle the small yellow pieces around to make a sandwich of the horizontal piece.
This is the first milestone position. A sandwich is made (with the horizontal piece and the four single pieces) in the bottom left corner.
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I shuffle the bottom two yellow pieces to the bottom right corner.
The vertical piece drops down and the the big red sun piece is ready to slide to the right.
This is the second milestone position. The big red sun piece slides to the right on top of three vertical pieces.
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The 2nd vertical piece goes up.
The horizontal piece is about to get out of the way.
The four vertical pieces are arranged in an array on the left.
Getting ready to send two yellow pieces all the way to the top (to go behind the big red sun piece that will come down later on).
This is the third milestone position. A sandwich is made (with the horizontal piece and the four single pieces) in the bottom right corner.
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The top two yellow pieces are deployed to go up.
The top two yellow pieces will now get shuffled upwards.
The big red sun piece is ready to "go down" on the horizontal piece (think of the horizontal piece as a landing pad for the big red sun piece).
This is the fourth milestone position. Two single pieces are sent up to move behind the big red piece that just slid down onto the horizontal piece (and what remains of the sandwich).
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The two yellow pieces go behind the big red sun piece.
Getting ready to line up all the vertical pieces in the top behind the big red sun piece.
The big red sun piece is about to move horizontally to the center.
The two yellow pieces have done their job and now need to go down. The 4th vertical piece is ready to go up all the way to join its other 3 siblings.
The 4th vertical piece is now ready to go up all the way to the top so the a horizontal piece sandwich can be made in the diagonally opposite bottom corner.
This is the fifth milestone position. All four vertical pieces are up. The big red sun piece is now ready to go all the way down. The sandwich is made again (with the horizontal piece and the four single pieces) in the bottom right corner.
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The horizontal piece is out of the way.
The big red sun piece is almost out...
The big red sun piece can now set.
