3DS - Tomodachi Life - Slide Puzzle Backgrounds - The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet! Wiki Sprites Models Textures Sounds Login. VGFacts DidYouKnowGaming? Hello, Guest! (Login Register) Register today to join in with discussions on the forum, post. Tomodachi Islands (known as Tomodachi Collection: New Islands in Japan) is the 3rd installment of the Tomodachi series and a sequel to Tomodachi Life.It was released on the 3DS worldwide on May 1, 2020. It is similar to its predecessor but also includes new features. The game also has amiibo compatibility, and certain amiibos unlock special items.
Tomodachi Life has been pretty popular outside Japan, and especially in Europe, which is why Nintendo decided to re-release the game. Indeed, back in July, the company announced that Tomodachi Life would be translated in Dutch: this new version of the game is now available in store! But players who already own the game and want to play in Dutch do not have anything to worry about: an update is now available!
This new update brings Tomodachi Life to Ver. 2.0, with the following changes:
- Dutch translation added (you simply need to set your system language to Dutch in order to play the game in Dutch).
- Introduces additional enhancements to improve the user’s experience and enjoyment.
This update requires 355 blocks (roughly 44MB) of free space on your SD Card, and to download it, you have several options:
- you can select the game from the Home Menu (while being connected to the internet), in order to trigger the download;
- you can search for Tomodachi Life on the Nintendo eShop
- you can use the option on the Nintendo eShop Settings page
Also, Nintendo announced today that the special import items would be distributed for another year. Those SpotPass distributions were supposed to end next year, but now, they will keep going until the middle of 2017. Of course, Nintendo will simply resend the same items, so if you missed one in particular, you will be able to get it!
Source: Nintendo eShop
After seeing many people giving up while playing slide puzzles in im-a-puzzle.com, I decided to write this fool proof fully illustrated guide to solve any slide puzzle (3×3, 4×4, 5×5, …).
I came to the solution while developing the website im-a-puzzle.com and observing that the A* like algorithms take too long to solve puzzles. The nice thing about the solution is that it is so simple that even an human being can execute it 🙂
Divide and conquer
The beauty of the solution proposed here is that it is applicable to any puzzle size: 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, etc. The trick is to solve the corners first so that a 5×5 puzzle becomes a 4×4 and then a 3×3. This technique is also known as divide and conquer, where a complex problem is broke down into sub-problems, until these become simple enough to be solved directly.
The algorithm
The algorithm consist of following steps:
- Solve the top corner (step 1 below)
- Solve the left corner (step 2 below)
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 until the puzzle size is decreased to 3×3
- Solve the top corner only (step 1 below)
- Solve the remaining 3×2 puzzle (step 4 below)
To move a piece to any position the easiest way is to:
- Put the blank square at the target position
- Move your piece in the target direction by moving all the pieces one square forward
- Put the blank square ahead of your piece again by revolving the pieces around your target piece
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 until your piece reaches its target
You are going to find many animated examples of these steps in the guide below. As the algorithm consist of solving the corners one-by-one, once a corner is solved it is consider as “frozen” and you should no longer touch it. That means that when you are revolving the pieces around your target piece you should never breach the “frozen” area.
The steps
STEP 1 – Solve the upper corner
Position all the top pieces from left to right:
1.1 Move the 1st piece to the top left corner.
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1.2 Move the 2nd piece to the top corner just close to the 1st piece
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1.3 If required move the 3rd, 4th pieces and so on until there is only 2 missing (applicable for puzzles bigger than 4×4)
1.4 Make sure that the last piece of the row is not on the top row itself. If yes, move it out! (Anywhere far away from it)
1.5 Move the before last piece of the row to the top right corner (for a 3 columns puzzle, the 2nd piece, for a 4 columns puzzle the 3rd piece, etc.).
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1.6 Position the last piece of the row just below it (right corner, 2nd position from the top)
1.7 Move the before last piece to its correct place and the last piece just behind it
If you are solving a 3×3 puzzle jump to step 4
STEP 2 – Solve the left corner
Position all the left pieces from top to bottom. Please note that the first piece is already be on its correct position:
2.1 Move the 2nd piece of the column just below the 1st piece
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2.2 If required move the 3rd, 4th pieces and so on until there is only 2 missing (applicable for puzzles bigger than 4×4)
2.3 Make sure that the last piece of the column is not on the left column itself. If yes, move it out! (Anywhere far away from it)
2.4 Move the before last piece of the column to the bottom left corner (for a 3 columns puzzle, the 4th piece, for a 4 columns puzzle the 9th piece, etc.).
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2.5 Move the last piece of the column just to the right of it (bottom corner, 2nd position from the left).
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2.6 Move the before last piece to its correct place and the last piece just behind it.
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STEP 3 – Repeat steps 1 and 2
Consider the top and left corners as frozen (you are not allowed to touch these pieces anymore!). Go back to step 1 assuming that you are now solving a smaller puzzle. Examples:
- If you froze the top and left corners of a 4×4 puzzle, you will now have to solve a 3×3 puzzle.
- If you froze the top and left corners of a 5×5 puzzle, you will now have to solve a 4×4 puzzle.
- And so on…
If you are solving a 3×3 puzzle you will execute step 1 only and jump to step 4
STEP 4 – Solve the 3×2 puzzle
If you got here than there are only 5 pieces left to position (plus the blank piece). From here on, there is no all-in-one solution and you have to find the solution out yourself. But at the same time there are not many possible combinations.
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Tomodachi Life Slide Puzzle Printable
You will notice that there are only 4 basic movements possible: turning the first square clockwise or counterclockwise or turning the second square clockwise or counterclockwise. You will have to find your way and use them over and over until the 3×2 puzzle is solved. The worst case scenario happens when the numbers are displayed in the opposite order or when they are in the right order but in the wrong row.
Tomodachi Life Slide Puzzle Free
The good thing is that im-a-puzzle.com only generates solvable puzzles. You do not have to be afraid that your puzzle will not have a solution.
If you have any suggestions or comments to the current algorithm feel free to write them here below.
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Have fun!