JC Golden Nugget - principles © 1989-2003 Jarosław Cichocki, Poland,

E-mail: jarcicho AT interia.pl

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"JC Golden Nugget" is an attractive logical game:

* which rules are simple (removing blocks on the board)

* which is not limited by cultural or language barriers

* in which nobody knows the best solve

* in which you can't prove that your result is the best (even  using  the world fastest computers)

* which is perfect to organize the world competition

* which everybody can play having  the  same  chance  to  win  big  prize (for example: 250,000 $)

* which makes the player be sure about  the honesty of the competition and about winning possibilities

              PRINCIPLES OF LOGICAL GAME "JC Golden Nugget”

      The game has been designed for one person. The playing board is a square comprising  49 – fields (7 x 7). There are 49 blocks  standing numbered 1 through to  49. Every  block has two faces: face  A and face  B. On the B face all the blocks are underlined. Only one side of the block  is visible at any given  time. On every side there are 24 white and 25 coloured blocks ( 5 yellow, 5 blue, 5 pink,   5 red and 5 green).

On Figure 1 the initial setting of  the system of blocks (numerical and colour) on the initial board (face A of all the blocks  is visible). It is system of blocks from which the game  „JC Golden Nugget” begins .

Colourful view   B side of all the  blocks is shown in Figure 2.

Arrangement of numbers and their corresponding colours on the A and B faces are given in Figure 3.

Figure 1                            Figure 2

Figure 3

NUMBER OF       COLOUR ON         COLOUR ON

BLOCK           A FACE            B FACE

  1             YELLOW            WHITE

  2             WHITE             WHITE

  3             BLUE              WHITE

  4             WHITE             YELLOW

  5             PINK              WHITE

  6             WHITE             WHITE

  7             RED               YELLOW

  8             WHITE             YELLOW

  9             PINK              PINK

 10             WHITE             WHITE

 11             RED               WHITE

 12             WHITE             BLUE

 13             GREEN             WHITE

 14             WHITE             BLUE

 15             BLUE              PINK

 16             WHITE             GREEN

 17             YELLOW            WHITE

 18             WHITE             WHITE

 19             BLUE              RED

 20             WHITE             WHITE

 21             GREEN             YELLOW

 22             WHITE             WHITE

 23             GREEN             WHITE

 24             WHITE             YELLOW

 25             GREEN             WHITE

 26             WHITE             GREEN

 27             YELLOW            WHITE

 28             WHITE             WHITE

 29             YELLOW            PINK

 30             WHITE             WHITE

 31             RED               GREEN

 32             WHITE             WHITE

 33             PINK              GREEN

 34             WHITE             PINK

 35             YELLOW            BLUE

 36             WHITE             GREEN

 37             RED               RED

 38             WHITE             RED

 39             PINK              RED

 40             WHITE             WHITE

 41             BLUE              WHITE

 42             WHITE             PINK

 43             GREEN             BLUE

 44             WHITE             WHITE

 45             RED               WHITE

 46             WHITE             RED

 47             PINK              WHITE

 48             WHITE             WHITE

 49             BLUE              BLUE

What is required of the player is to bring to such arrangement of coloured  blocks so as to create  vertical or horizontal strip composed of one colour in such a way that non of it touch the edge of the board. The Order of colour of these  strips is optional. An example of how end arrangement of such colour systems on the  board has been presented in Figure  4 and  5.

Figure 4                            Figure 5

Objectives are attained by making a number of moves. A move  is made by changing the position of  series of blocks by one step (field) in the vertical or horizontal row. Position of the forces of shifting blocks are marked from 1 through to 7 and from A through to U. Every move is divided into three stages:

1. White blocks  which are the furthest from the position of force in this row should  be removed from the  board.

2. Series of  blocks in this row  should be shifted in accordance with the  applied force by one place  (Attention! Block  may not be moved beyond the board).

3. The white block which had earlier be removed from the board should be placed in an empty  field which will have risen in the place of positioning of force.

It is not permissible  to make a move in which non of the coloured block move. It is not permissible to make more than 99 moves in order to solve one  board.

Numerical and coloured changes on the board which take place on making three exemplary moves having the following positioning of force; P, 5, L have been shown in Figures: 6, 7, 8, 9.

Figure 6                            Figure 7

Figure 8                            Figure 9

Shorten record of moves made is : P, 5, L. full record is: P7, 54, L6. Full record facilitate the withdrawing  of moves already made. Second component in the record of every move informs of the position of the white block  which has been removed from the board counting from the position of the force.

After solving the first  board (all the coloured  blocks  are positioned at the centre of the board and form either vertical or horizontal coloured strips) all blocks should be turned so that the B faces of the blocks are visible. Every block  must remain in this same position. This will be the initial arrangement of the blocks  for the second board. After solving the second board all the blocks  should be turned in such a way so that the A faces of blocks  are visible. Every block must remain in this same position. This will be the initial arrangement of the blocks for the third board. The initial arrangement of the blocks for the consecutive board will thus be created in analogous way. The odd boards will have A faces of the blocks visible while the even boards B faces.

When  solving  every board every executed move should be noted down. After solving every board the situation in the board should be noted (write down what position every numbered blocks have in the board).

Minimum number of  successive board which should be solved is  20. Maximum which should not be exceeded is 200.

The factors determining the best solution in the „JC Golden Nugget” game are listed below in order of their importance:

1. The least arithmetic mean number of moves from all the successive solved boards. If  equal then:

2. The highest number of solved boards. If  equal then:

3. The fewest number of moves in the last board. If  equal then:

4. The fewest number of moves in the second but last board etc.

ATTENTION!

Initial arrangement on the first  board has risen from  arranging of series of blocks  in the arising  succession  of (yellow, white , blue, white, pink, white, red, white, green, white) according to the scheme on presented in Figure 10.

Figure 10

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