Is Sigmar's always solvable?

[shawazi5]

Is it theoretically winnable every game? Or is it randomized to where you will def lose sometimes? This thing is brutal! Harder than "actual" game in some ways

[Ouroboros]

It's not always solvable; I've had a situation where my Tin atom is blocked in by mercury on one side and a different metal on the other.

[Majorlag]

I haven't sat down and verified it, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it sometimes generates impossible to solve arrangements of the metals ladder.

[Aperture]

From the store page:
Solitaire Minigame - Alchemical engineering takes focus and concentration. Take a break with Sigmar’s Garden, an original alchemy-based solitaire game. Every game is winnable, but not every game will be won…

[MagicMagor]

Just today i had a game that ended with the gold sphere left on the board. Everything else was cleared, so i assume the board was one quick-silver short of being winneable. Which would mean not every board is winneable.

[columbine]

The gold sphere doesn't require a quicksilver to clear. Just click it. (That threw me the first time too.)

[Azure]

It's always solvable, but realistically you won't be getting much better than 70% or so. You might make a move in the first 10 seconds that makes it unwinnable far in the future, but it always starts out with a winnable layout.

"I've had a situation where my Tin atom is blocked in by mercury on one side and a different metal on the other" - use that mercury to match with lead then, and use a different mercury to clear the tin.

[felixader]

Okay, so uuh, i dont know how to say this so i just say it.

I love the puzzles even when needing hours to construct and fiddle out a solution.

But Sigmars Garden just stresses me out and i just don't enjoy it.

I was SO RELIEVED that you aren't required to finish them to proceed. :-P

[Slain087]

Originally posted by felixader:

Okay, so uuh, i dont know how to say this so i just say it.

I love the puzzles even when needing hours to construct and fiddle out a solution.

But Sigmars Garden just stresses me out and i just don't enjoy it.

I was SO RELIEVED that you aren't required to finish them to proceed. :-P

It happens. In some respects, you do have to put a lot more forethought into Sigmar's Garden than a lot of the regular puzzles. I know some people had the same problems with Shenzhen I/O and its solitare program.

[LostAngel1000]

I am not sure... and as for the SG2 with the new element... IDK how you even make those go away

[L1ghtX]

I once got a SG board with ZERO moves possible at the start.

Like, the only available pieces were unmatched vita/mors, a salt, a mercury, no lead or elements. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, mercury, single elements, no lead. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, lead, no mercury, single elements. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, lead, no mercury, salt, no elements?

Ah well, can't remember. Trust me though, some are unsolvable.

[shawazi5]

Seems one of the original comments folks missed, which I missed on the store. Apparently it's always solvable. Best I've done is five in a row though :)

Originally posted by Aperture:

From the store page:
Solitaire Minigame - Alchemical engineering takes focus and concentration. Take a break with Sigmar’s Garden, an original alchemy-based solitaire game. Every game is winnable, but not every game will be won…

[Pawlo]

Originally posted by barker:

I once got a SG board with ZERO moves possible at the start.

Like, the only available pieces were unmatched vita/mors, a salt, a mercury, no lead or elements. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, mercury, single elements, no lead. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, lead, no mercury, single elements. Or was it unmatched vita/mors, lead, no mercury, salt, no elements?

Ah well, can't remember. Trust me though, some are unsolvable.

Confirmed. I just had a game with an impossible set-up, though I failed to take a screen shot. :/

[hansvon]

It would be nice if there was a restart button. Restarting would not count as a victory.

[columbine]

In case anyone was still on the fence, here's a provably unsolvable deal of Sigmar's.

There is no way to open up the iron orb. It can't get exposed unless the copper is cleared (which can't happen until iron is removed) or the quicksilver gone (which can't happen unless matched to iron). The salt is irrelevant; even if that were gone, the problem would still exist.

[MangoMan]

I'm pretty sure it's always solvable. One way you can tell is that until there's a "fork", there will always be a move. Sometimes that early part can go for quite a while and there's always another move until eventually a fork happens. From there, it's up to your decision making as to whether or not it will remain solvable.