Carrying is Hard: Exploring the Gap between Hardness for NP and PSPACE for the Hanano and Jelly no Puzzles
arXiv:2601.08057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Hanano Puzzle is a one-player game with irreversible gravity, where the goal is to make colored blocks make contact with flowers of the corresponding color. The game Jelly no Puzzle shares similar mechanics. In general, determining if a given level of each of the two games is solvable is PSPACE-complete. There are also known restrictions under which determining if a level of Jelly no Puzzle is solvable is NP-complete. We find that […]