pinkcat This is a level 20 version on the mobile, so you can see why that wouldn't take too long.
Edit: Oh actually this one isn't too bad either, usually one of the 3 they ask you is particularly hard. Solved under a minute.
@PC it can sometimes be useful to try to find out the general direction you have to go, or as it happens in higher levels, the minimal number of times you have to rotate around a certain area to get all of the pets in their houses rather than look at it as individual item groups and get tunnel-visioned. And only after you decipher the general path begin finding out how to achieve it exactly. You can try weighing the costs-benefits in picking up an item immediately or delaying it for later by keeping track of a counter of movement.
So in Paul's case, if I try to pick up that lean dog immediately I have to get it and get back for me to proceed in what would be the general optimal direction I'd have to go. That costs 2, whereas if I delay it till later (as the max capacity of pets is 4 and in that level there were only 5, being able to pick all the pets up isn't an issue), I just have to move away from the turtle to lean dog house which costs only 1) Same thing with the turtle, if I pick it up and place it in the house immediately that costs 2, if I place it later after the cat house, it costs 1. Albeit, you'd have to figure out that you have to delay the turtle before you can realize you should delay the lean dog as well, so there's a play on inhibition as the lean dog question is queried first.
Paul's right, like what I meant before "this level turned out to be easy," I wasn't actually expecting it to be so: the first path I considered ended up being the correct one.
turtle(3/15)(1/4)
yellow dog(4/15)(2/4)
porcupine(5/15)(3/4)
yellow dog house(6/15)(2/4)
blue dog(7/15)(3/4)
cat(10/15)(4/4)
porcupine house(11/15)(3/4)
blue dog house(13/15)(2/4)
turtle house (14/15)(1/4)
cat house(15/15)(0/4)
Excellent! That top left square route will get 15 moves going either clockwise or anticlockwise. Foolish Mortal's solution was to go clockwise, yours goes anticlockwise.
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