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.
