The frogs can move into a space either by sliding to the next lilly pad or by jumping over the one frog next to them. You can play the game on the app below:
Full Screen and tablet version
We found the minimum number of moves necessary. We used desmos.com to make a graph of this.
We looked at the points for 1, 2 and 3 frogs of each colour, and then estimated where the one for 4 frogs would be.
Samyak spotten a pattern in the numbers:
I managed 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.9 took 99 moves
ReplyDeleteWell done - and I can see that's the minimum number of moves!
ReplyDeleteMy mum saw in Wikipedia that the minimum number of moves for 4 was19 not 24.
ReplyDeleteOoh, could you post a link to that for me?
Delete8 frogs takes 80 moves.
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