Super Mario RPG Ball Solitaire Puzzle
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Ball Solitaire solution in Super Mario RPG

Have you considered just giving up?

What a nerve-wracking puzzle. While going through the Return to Bowser’s Keep phase of Super Mario RPG, you may ꦰcome across Dr. Topper’s Ball Solitaire. It’s a lot, and if you fail, you’re kicked back to t🦩he door selection. Here’s how to solve the Ball Solitaire challenge.

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That is if you want to. There are six doors you choose from in this part of the game, and you only need to do four. Have you 💎considered on🧔e of the battle ones? They aren’t too bad. No? Okay. I want you to know I only did this puzzle so I could tell you how to complete it. You’re welcome.

Ball Solitaire puts you on an eight-by-eight grid of cannon balls. One of them is taken away, and you have to eliminate the rest of them by leapfrogging one ball over another into𒁏 an empty space. Eventually, you just want to be left with only one. It’s like those puzzles they have on tables in old country restaurants or Crack Barrel. The ones that you probably cheated🅠 on when you were a kid.

Some tips first. You want to make sure to break the balls up. If you wind up with four in a single row, you might not have any way to complete the puzzle, so you kind of want to perforate the board. At the same time, you want to make sure the cannon balls are close enough together so that one doesn’t get stranded in the corner. That may sound counter-intuitive, but on an 4×4 grid, the balls are usually not far apart.

Just tell me how to solve it

All right, all 🍎right. Prepare your eyes for my amazing MS Paint skills:

Super Mario Ball Solitaire Solution
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Am🍷azing, right? When I was younger, before I decided to be a writer, I wanted to be an artist. I don’t know why I brought that up. It just came to my head for some reason.

Anyway, that’s how you solve the Ball Solitaire puzzle. I▨t’s possible that there are other ways to complete the puzzle. I’m not sure, and my brain hurts, so I don’t want to think about it anymore. This will get you through this puzℱzle, so mission accomplished.

Super Mario RPG is available now for Switch.


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