SmartGames - Hansel & Gretel (Puzzle)

GAME RULES HANSEL & GRETEL- Choose a challenge. Place the puzzle pieces as shown in the challenge. The figurines of Hansel & Gretel should be orientated with their face towards the side of the game board with the exit. Easy challenges will only feature Hansel OR Gretel. Harder challenges will feature both characters.
- Help Hansel and/or Gretel escape from the Witch’s haunted garden. Watch out: the lollypop-trees may try to prevent your escape!
A) The Candy House is a fixed element and cannot be moved.

B) The puzzle pieces with Hansel /Gretel and the 2 rectangular puzzle pieces can slide (horizontally and vertically) as many steps as desired.

C) The lollypop square puzzle pieces can only slide 1 step, as the lollypops will drop in a hole on the game board and block further movement.

D) Sometimes lollypops will already be blocked during setup, when they are positioned on top of a hole in the game board. If so, these pieces will act as fixed obstacles (like the Witch’s Candy House).

E) Only the puzzle pieces with Hansel & Gretel can slide out through the opening of the game board. The other puzzle pieces will remain somewhere within the borders of the game board.- You have found the solution when you can slide Hansel and/or Gretel through the exit. For challenges that feature Hansel AND Gretel, both characters must escape. The order in which they do doesn't matter.
Challenges often have multiple solutions. One of the shortest solutions is shown at the end of the challenge booklet.

HINTS

If you get stuck and cannot move the characters to the exit (such as when you’re blocked by a lollypop) it's best to setup the game again from the start.