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Fruit Slider – an optimal path finding match-2 sliding puzzle

Fruit Slider is a match-2 sliding puzzle game where players swap adjacent fruit tiles to create matching pairs, with the game automatically finding and highlighting the optimal path to solve each puzzle.

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Fruit Slider is a web-based match-2 sliding puzzle where players rearrange fruit tiles to align matching pairs. The project prominently highlights "optimal path finding," suggesting it uses algorithms (likely A* or BFS) to calculate the minimum number of moves needed to solve each puzzle. This relates to the broader computer science field of combinatorial search and puzzle-solving, similar to work on the 15-puzzle or Rubik's Cube. For an intellectually curious reader, the interest lies in how the game demonstrates algorithmic efficiency in pathfinding, not just the gameplay itself.

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