Contents
Contents for help on The Lost Trail.

Moving A Piece

Playing back a previous move

Playing back next move

Move Counter

Goal

Solution


Moving A Piece

To move a piece, place the cursor on the piece to be moved, press and hold the left mouse button while dragging the piece to its new location.


Playing back previous moves

To play back previous moves, move the cursor to the button with the left arrow on the bottom of the window, then press the left mouse button momentarily. If moves have been made before, the move counter will be decremented by one and the position of the pieces will be changed to the previous move. This procedure can be repeated until the beginning of the game is reached. The game can be moved forward in play by using the Playback Next Moves option.


Playing back the next move
Playing back next moves

After playing back previous moves, its sometimes desirable to move ahead to the moves you have moved backwards from. If no moves have been made since the last time the Playback Previous Moves option was selected, move the cursor to the button with the right arrow on the bottom of the window, then press the left mouse button momentarily. If there are moves ahead of the current location the move counter will be incremented by one and the position of the pieces will be changed to the next move. This procedure can be repeated until the last move of the game is reached.


Move Counter

Whenever  a move is made this counter is incremented by one. This allows the game player to see how many moves it took to get to the current position. This option is also useful for using the Solution, Play back previous moves and Play back next moves operations.


Goal

The goal of "The Lost Trail" is to move the 10 playing pieces in such a way as to get the large red square at the top and center of the puzzle, to the bottom and center of the puzzle. After this is accomplished a message will appear to acknowledge success. Once the goal is achieved ,reducing the number of moves to reach the goal can also be challenging.


Solution

If this program has been registered and the registered password and user id has been entered, a solution to puzzle will be loaded for viewing with Play back previous moves and  the Play back next moves options.