Sliding puzzle

Sliding puzzles or sliding block puzzles ask the player to slide tokens (usually flat shapes) along certain given routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain given end-configuration.
Usually the tokens differ by colour and/or carry an image, number or letter.

We will call sliding puzzles only those puzzles that are essentially two-dimensional in nature, even if this sliding is facilitated by mechanically interlinked pieces (like partially encaged marbles) or three-dimensional tokens.

Examples of sliding puzzles

• Daughter in the box
• Digirot
• First
• First I
• First II
• First Do It Yourself
• First Exchange
• Fifteen puzzle
• Itchi
• Itchi II
• Rose
• Twist

See also : shuffling puzzles