Bearings

Made by @AtticWizard on Fifth Door

A brutally hard puzzle about compasses that disagree. Every order you give (N, E, S or W) goes to every compass on the chart at once, and each one sails toward that letter on its own card. Some cards are turned. Whirlpools spin them, magnetic anomalies swap their east and west, islands hold them back, and the open sea swallows them whole. Get every compass onto its mark at the same moment. 30 charts across six chapters, each one proven solvable by an exhaustive solver that also sets its par. The opening charts take 5 moves; the last one takes 102 perfect moves with four compasses.

Play Bearings in your web browser on Fifth Door. Nothing to download.

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