Moota-Kun

Designed and made by Minour Abe, circa 1985.
(cardboard box 4+58" x 4+5/8" x 3/4", wood tray, 8 wood pieces, and yellow keeper)

Starting with the pieces positioned as on the left below, slide them to correctly make the cow:



A somewhat tricky solution to start with is made more difficult because it is cumbersome at first to keep track of where pieces need to go when they are portions of a drawing rather than plain colors. The follow page shows a solution of 39 moves rectilinear moves (equivalent to 45 straight-line moves).

Moota-Kun Solution, 39 Rectilinear Moves