Mora Jai Box Simulator

Mora Jai Box

A Mora Jai Box is a lock box that involves solving a 3x3 grid of colored tiles. Each color has a unique behavior (see rules). They are originally found in the puzzle/adventure game Blue Prince, but are interesting to analyze on their own.

Warning: leave Spoiler Mode turned off if you’re still playing Blue Prince - it will reveal information relevant to endgame and post-endgame puzzles.

Simulator

 
    

Rules

  • To Solve: Press all 4 outer buttons after the corner tiles’ colors match the target color
  • To Reset: Press any outer button that does NOT match the target color
  • Tile Behavior:
    • Grey does nothing
    • White causes adjacent white tiles (and itself) to turn grey. Adjacent grey tiles turn white
    • Violet swaps with the tile below it
    • Yellow swaps with the tile above it
    • Green swaps positions with the tile opposite it
    • Black shifts its row to the right
    • Red causes every black tile to turn red, and every white tile to turn black
    • Pink rotates all the tiles surrounding it clockwise
    • If a majority of adjacent tiles are the same color, orange changes to match that color
    • Blue mimics the behavior of whichever tile is in the center (with some quirks)

Challenge Puzzles

Based on computer analysis, I included several challenge puzzles that are not found in Blue Prince. They are designed to require the longest possible solutions for their given color. Longest Solution - Grey is the most difficult, requiring a minimum of 67 moves to solve. Some redundant / very similar puzzles are left out.