Joe's Puzzle Page - Java 2 Edition

The applet demonstrates the Puzzle Bean. The Puzzle Bean provides:

• A customizable sliding block puzzle.
• Support for images, including animated gif images.
• An automated rule-based solver.
• A reversible move queue.

Download:

Joe's Puzzle Bean for Java 2 - jpuzzle.jar
Puzzle Bean API Documentation - Puzzle.html
Demo applet source - JPuzzleApp.java
Puzzle Bean source - jpuzzlesrc.jar (licensed)
Puzzle Bean source license - license.txt

Image and Sound Credits:

The ferocious tiger is an uncopyrighted creation of Adobe.
The blinking eyeball is from GifsNow.com.
The winning yahoo! is from JavaSoft's TicTacToe demo applet.

About the Solver:

The puzzle solver was developed by Joseph Bowbeer with the help of Philip Krause, J. O'Brien, and M. Tuceiryan at the University of Illinois. The solver is based on a rule set for the 5-puzzle developed by Donald Michie at the University of Edinburgh.