Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35148884-20190627015838/@comment-35901641-20190628130640

Orithain wrote: Alzhammer, yes, that blasted planet does still sit there after a bomb/stripe explosion. Now I'm very careful to not move them back over the shelf if I manage to shift them to the side. Even if that's the only move, I'll use an eyeglass rather than moving them over the shelf.

Thanks Ori, and you can't believe how happy I am to read your comment! Here is why:

I used to think I'd be okay moving the planets into a "shelf column" while they were still up high in the puzzle (even if there were other moves available) because I'd have time to move them back out. Well I definitely thought wrong because often they'd drop too fast and then get stuck. This caused me to start playing with the goal of avoiding those "shelf columns" completely. This has worked okay for me as long as I didn't get into the situation where the only move left required it. If it was my only move left, then over into the column it went--along with my quickly sinking heart because unless I was lucky enough to be able to slide it over (not likely), no tool was going to get the planet off that shelf.

This is where your help comes in. I NEVER, ever, I mean never! thought about using an eyeglass to AVOID having to put it into the "shelf" column when that was the only move left! I have wasted plenty of eyeglasses trying to figure out how to get it off the shelf once it is already there (we know that doesn't work) but not even one of them trying to keep it off of the shelf in the first place!

I am so excited to learn about this and now I can't wait until I get that type of puzzle so that I can try it out. Yay! Learning this has really made my day😄👍