Is this by design? How to solve this puzzle?

[MANIA]

Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone

I am having trouble with the following puzzle:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396073815

My original plan:
1. Whipping the non-armored skeleton in the top row. (to make sure all the armored skeletons are next to the snakes)
2. Whipping the trap.

I thought that after doing the above, the trap would destroy the fire demon to trigger his special ability to destroy the snake in the second row and thus detonate his bomb, I was hoping that the other snakes in the top and bottom rows would also explode in a chain reaction, removing the armor protection from all the skeletons.

3. In the end, I wanted to use thunder to take care of the skeletons.

However, my plan failed because the snake in the second row didn't trigger my planned chain reaction to blow up the other two snakes. Is this by design? Or did I encounter a bug?

The problem is that I can't think of any other plan to solve this puzzle, please teach me how to solve it if you know.

Thank you in advance.

Screenshots:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396114946
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396118738
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396119829

[Salvatos]

The wiki has solutions for all or most of the puzzles at this address: https://irisandthegiant.fandom.com/wiki/Path_of_the_Mind#5-4

However, for this particular one, it notes that This is the hypothetical solution, however due to faulty programming: it's possible the snake bomb hit via the fire demon will move forward to 2-2 before it detonates, thus not hitting and triggering the other 2 bomb snakes as intended; thus making the puzzle impossible.

Given the wording, I’m not sure whether this happens every time.

[MANIA]

Originally posted by Salvatos:

The wiki has solutions for all or most of the puzzles at this address: https://irisandthegiant.fandom.com/wiki/Path_of_the_Mind#5-4

However, for this particular one, it notes that This is the hypothetical solution, however due to faulty programming: it's possible the snake bomb hit via the fire demon will move forward to 2-2 before it detonates, thus not hitting and triggering the other 2 bomb snakes as intended; thus making the puzzle impossible.

Given the wording, I’m not sure whether this happens every time.

Hello and many thanks for your response.

To be honest, I've stopped playing this video game, but I can remember encountering this puzzle at least three times in my runs and trying my solution at least 6 times, yet this bug always occurs, I'm not sure, maybe I was extremely unlucky. *sigh*

Have a good day/night.