Part 5 – Unclearable Patterns

This time I’ll be introducing unclearable patterns.

“What? Why would I need to know something like that?”

You’re thinking about it the wrong way; if you know what unclearable patterns look like, you can take precautions to avoid making them yourself.

Furthermore, if you know the unclearable patterns, you can learn to pay less attention to those parts of the field.

Well then, let me introduce two patterns that appear to be clearable at first glance, but are actually unclearable (Figure 1).

How about that? Can’t clear them, can you?

The best countermeasure is to clear panels in a way such that you won’t create these patterns.

However, the second unclearable pattern type with the panels lined up diagonally is exceptionally difficult to recover from.

In this kind of situation where you have so few possible moves, you might as well try going for a NO MORE MOVE.

Well then, in the next article I’ll introduce a method to clear panels more efficiently.

Using this technique, you’ll be able to make your active chains even longer, so please look forward to it. Thanks for reading!