Knossos Games - Circumnavigational

Finally we come to a puzzle that didn’t suffer from umpteen revisions. This puzzle is the first one of the set of Circumnavigational puzzles that even I would consider difficult. By starting with pair of green hexagons and lone orange one on the right, you’re forced to move into the middle of the puzzle having last past a green hexagon. Thus you can’t immediately head for the finish, because either 1) the first hexagon you’d encounter is green, or 2) you’d first pass an orange hexagon but then encounter two greens in a row. Even after doing a complicated maneuver to the far left side of the puzzle and back to the middle, the last hexagon passed while going down the middle of the two rows of green and orange hexagons is orange. If you do a tight turn around the green hexagon, you’d bump into two orange hexagons in a row.

If you followed all of that, well, it’s a miracle. Anyway, this one turned out well, if I do say so myself. It’s deceptively simple in layout, yet produces a lot of dead ends and false hopes along the way.