Object: Visit as many destinations of the given sequence as possible. (4 random and 40 fixed setups) Click the board for a random setup. Click an empty position to place your Man. Click the target position to move your Man. Your travel destinations are numbered. You can only visit a destination which carries a number bigger than the number of the previous destination. You can walk as far as you like over empty positions. You can go into any of eight directions and turn at any time. You cannot step on your own previous path or over a destination. However, you can cross your own path at ANY straight section! Not more than two roads can cross at one point. Your goal is to visit as many destinations as possible. The number of destinations you have visited as well as the length of the longest known tour (measured in the number of visited destinations) are shown at the top border. The longest known tours have been found by hand, so you might be able to improve on them. 40 fixed setups: Variant 1 to 10: 16 destinations on 10x10 board. Variant 11 to 20: 25 destinations on 10x10 board. Variant 21 to 30: 25 destinations on 13x15 board. Variant 31 to 40: 36 destinations on 13x15 board. There are also four randomized variants: - 16 destinations on 10x10 board. - 25 destinations on 10x10 board. - 25 destinations on 13x15 board. - 36 destinations on 13x15 board. Experts may also try to find the best solutions for the cases where a path can only cross itself at right angles! For which variants does the result differ from the standard best solution? What if no crossings are allowed at all? Note that there are several alternative piece sets which you might find easier to look at. Related Zillions games: African Tour, Twisted Tour. Technical information: In African Tour and Twisted Tour I had to compare 'numbers' and decide which is smaller or larger than the other. For small numnbers this can be easily sone with simple 'if then else'. For large numbers as in this game Asian Tour I came up with a much better technique, namely using 'binary piece attributes'. E.g., the image nr17 of the number 17 carries the piece attributes b16? true and b1? true. This allows to determine larger/smaller with just a few ifs, even for very large numbers (see macro Check-larger). Background graphics: from the ClickArt collection by Broderbund. |