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Alien Tiles Official Web Page
"The Universe's Most Challenging and Fun Puzzle Game"
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Make all the tiles blue! Alien Tiles is a vivid and fiendishly difficult puzzle recently developed by Dr. Cliff Pickover and Cam Mckechnie. Some have called it "Rubik's cube for the new millennium." The rules are simple, but the patterns soon become very complex. We look forward to hearing from artists, puzzle fans, and mathematicians regarding any interesting solutions, observations, and patterns. |
Click on any tile in the array and all tiles in the same row and column advance by one color in a cycle from red to green to blue to purple and finally back to red. Try it. You can always start over again by selecting the "Start" button.
First Goal: 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?
Second Goal: Starting from all red, create a board that is all purple except for a single, central red tile.
Third Goal: Inside the 7x7 array, create a Xenoplastic Diamond -- a rotated 4x4 square of one color inlaid within tiles all of another color. Click here for an example. If you can ever create this magnificent specimen, you will have a long life filled with joy.
Fourth Goal: To achieve ultimate peace and transcendence, create the following Alien Tile "Sivaraman" patterns: Bazuluk Shenkursk Vologda Novomoskovsk Orel Shar'ya Vyshniy Charon
You can use a mouse to copy all your moves. As an example, you can try playing back a sequence of 587 moves for the 7x7 board. You can try this by using a mouse to copy this odd solution into the "Replay" field.
Click here for the Classic 4x4 board. (In some situations, this is actually more difficult than the 7x7 board.)
Click here for an amazing 14x14 board.
Click here for a grand Internet contest with valuable prizes as a reward.
Click here for other challenges, unanswered questions, and challenges from vistors to AlienTiles.com.
Send AlienTiles.com feedback, questions, and discoveries.
There are still many mysteries and questions surrounding the Alien Tiles. Visit our web sites for puzzles, artwork, books, mind expanders, and more information about us:
-- Dr. Cliff Pickover, contact information
-- Visit Cliff Pickover's web site (www.pickover.com)
-- Discussion Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CliffordPickover)
-- Cam Mckechnie, chaoslab@actrix.gen.nz
-- Visit Cam Mckechnie's web site
Tell five friends about this web site. After you do, you have permission to click here for a different, wonderful alien image every hour. Thanks.
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New book: Downloading your mind to a computer -- to experience your afterlife and God in a chip! 
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