Zero Grid
Bring every number down to zero in Zero Grid.
Click on a square to reduce or increase its value, but be careful: it also affects its neighbors.
Plan each move, chain reactions, and empty out every grid with the fewest moves possible!
Challenge yourself across 25 handcrafted boards of increasing complexity.
Can you zero them all out?
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- Zero Grid 1.144 days ago
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It gets hard fast! Great game!
Cool game for training Your mind.
really good game, simple but cool
Cool idea! I like how easy it is to pick up!
However I think the ramp between 8-10 is too much (at least for me)
I think I would slowly introduce puzzle actions where it's not straight forwards like level 9. Then eventually get to level 10.
So you can add or subtract exactly five at a time no matter what, right? Level 13 has a total that doesn't divide by five, so it's unwinnable unless I missed a game mechanic.
Actually not - adjacent blank squares or squares already at +3/-3 can nullify this rule you identified (there may be, in some cases, less than 5 interactable squares if there are many blank squares or maxed out squares). But this isn't the case on level 13 :)
Anyway, level 13 can be beaten in 15ish moves (check screen, one click away from win). Try to play around with bringing max or min values on squares (+3, -3):
In general all levels have been generated starting from a blank grid and clicking back and forth, and then giving a generous amount of moves to the player to "reverse" such process.
There is also a secret trick, which costs an hefty amount of moves: bringing all the squares in a + up to 3 or -3, and then bringing them down/up to 0. Costly, but works! ;)
Ah - didn't know about the max value. The level wraps around all the blank squares, so I had thought it was impossible to do anything other than add or subtract 5 at a time.
(for any readers, there are more levels now, added at the start I think. The old level 13 is level 18)