Sliding puzzle

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What Wikipedia says

A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle is a combination puzzle that challenges a player to slide (almost always flat) pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration.

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Image: Micha L. Rieser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.