Shadow Ending 14

[TitanSmash]

How is one supposed to complete Shadow Ending 14? I've spent over 45 minutes on it trying to complete it with no luck. I can never seem to get below 4 black squares...

[MeisterJohnny]

Up.

I wrote a program that simulates that game and presses random squares.
The simulation runs for over 10 minutes now and tried multiple billion moves. Billions! But no luck, the smallest number of black squares my simulation got was 5.

I myself also got 4 black squares...

Brute force / luck alone doesn't seem to work, otherwise my simulation would have solved it after a few million moves...

A shame that I don't know how to make my simulation intelligent yet.

Edit: I guess there are 2^55 possibilies. That are 36.028.797.018.963.968 (36 quadrillion!)

[MeisterJohnny]

Well, somehow I solved it... I am not sure how I did it, but somehow I got lucky. Maybe I should play the lottery? 🤔

[TroubleMaker]

Originally posted by MeisterJohnny:

Up.

I wrote a program that simulates that game and presses random squares.
The simulation runs for over 10 minutes now and tried multiple billion moves. Billions! But no luck, the smallest number of black squares my simulation got was 5.

I myself also got 4 black squares...

Brute force / luck alone doesn't seem to work, otherwise my simulation would have solved it after a few million moves...

A shame that I don't know how to make my simulation intelligent yet.

Edit: I guess there are 2^55 possibilies. That are 36.028.797.018.963.968 (36 quadrillion!)

Do you maybe know what this mini-game is called, maybe some fancy algorithm already exists. I'm trying to get the ending myself and it's being a pain. I wouldn't mind coding an algorithm myself but if i do i'll probably just end up brute forcing it.... which as you showed, wouldn't really work. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

[MeisterJohnny]

Originally posted by TroubleMaker:

Originally posted by MeisterJohnny:

Up.

I wrote a program that simulates that game and presses random squares.
The simulation runs for over 10 minutes now and tried multiple billion moves. Billions! But no luck, the smallest number of black squares my simulation got was 5.

I myself also got 4 black squares...

Brute force / luck alone doesn't seem to work, otherwise my simulation would have solved it after a few million moves...

A shame that I don't know how to make my simulation intelligent yet.

Edit: I guess there are 2^55 possibilies. That are 36.028.797.018.963.968 (36 quadrillion!)

Do you maybe know what this mini-game is called, maybe some fancy algorithm already exists. I'm trying to get the ending myself and it's being a pain. I wouldn't mind coding an algorithm myself but if i do i'll probably just end up brute forcing it.... which as you showed, wouldn't really work. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

Sorry, I couldn't find the name of the game. I won't give up searching however...

My guess is, that the playing field is always random generated.

So my tip is to try again from the very beginning with another random generated playing field if you absolutely cannot reduce the numbers of the black squares anymore. Some might be nearly impossible so solve, and some others might be super easy.

So don't give up and good luck ^_^

P.S. the black squares don't have to be 0, so it is entirely possible :)

[TroubleMaker]

Originally posted by MeisterJohnny:

Originally posted by TroubleMaker:

Do you maybe know what this mini-game is called, maybe some fancy algorithm already exists. I'm trying to get the ending myself and it's being a pain. I wouldn't mind coding an algorithm myself but if i do i'll probably just end up brute forcing it.... which as you showed, wouldn't really work. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

Sorry, I couldn't find the name of the game. I won't give up searching however...

My guess is, that the playing field is always random generated.

So my tip is to try again from the very beginning with another random generated playing field if you absolutely cannot reduce the numbers of the black squares anymore. Some might be nearly impossible so solve, and some others might be super easy.

So don't give up and good luck ^_^

P.S. the black squares don't have to be 0, so it is entirely possible :)

Yeah at this point i feel like it would be easier to keep on randomly generating the level until i get a somewhat easy one. Thanks

[Rukoza]

Has anyone passed? Spent 2.5 hours already. It did not work out less than two squares.
Sorry, I use a translator because I don't know English well

[Heavenknight]

Here i am and still stuck with this recently. most of guide and information are useless. lmao. i notice right bottom corner 2 or 1 are impossible to be removed if you have one shadow there.