Colour Matching - Sliding Puzzle - Two Levels of Difficulty

This is a game that is primarily intended for children … but it can also be quite a challenge for adults! There are 4 different colors - 16 tiles in total - which are divided into the 4 columns. At the start, every color must be in each column.

The goal of the game is to sort the tiles into the columns by color by cleverly moving them back and forth. 

To give younger children a greater chance of success, the inserts in the left and right corner can be removed. More space facilitates the sliding possibilities. 

Dimensions:

• game board: approx. 25 x 16 x 0,7 cm

Tiles:

• 16 pieces (Ø 25 x 8 mm)

Age recommendation: from 5 to 100 years.

Supplies:

You will need:

• 3D printer (!)
• 4 or 5 different filament colors

Print settings:

• printer brands:  Bambu Lab/Prusa
• printer: X1 Carbon/ Mk3s
• supports: no
• resolution: 0,2
• infill: 20%
• filament brand: bambu; ICE; Sunlu
• filament color: Bambu PLA Basic Black and White; Romantic Red, Young Yellow, Bold Blue; Green
• filament material: PLA

Remark: As all parts are designed to fit very precisely, it may happen that you have to rework one or the other part a bit with sandpaper and/or cutter due to different dimensional accuracy of the printers and the different behavior of the filaments.

Print Parts

As you can see, I made a multi-color print for the game board. This is not necessary and also depends on the capabilities of your printer and the knowledge of how the multicolor printing is done in your slicer..

You have to print the following parts:

• matching colors puzzle_game board.stl (1x)
• matching colors puzzle_tile.stl (16x - 4 different colors)
• matching colors puzzle_insert.stl (2x)  

Play

Before starting the game, the player or the parents should decide whether to play with or without the inserts. It depends on the age! My 5-year-old granddaughter plays without the inserts and my 8-year-old grandson plays with them.

To start the game, the tiles must be distributed across the columns in such a way that every color appears.

Kids or adults, have fun!