PicturePuzzle Gold Shortcuts

When you activate the Picture Puzzle Gold Edition, some of the benefits you gain are Short-cuts.
In the standard Free Edition, it does not matter whether you click the right or the left mouse button, they both give you the same move. But in the Gold Edition, a right-click gives you a move-saving and time-saving short-cut.

In Slider, right-click on any piece in the same row or column as the empty space to move ALL the pieces over one space.

4 moves using left-clicks

In the above picture, the right-most piece has trees and balloons, and belongs near the upper-left corner of the finished image. To move it one spot closer, you need to slide 3 others one square left. The whole effort takes 4 moves.

1 move using right-click

But with the Gold Edition, right-click on that tile with the trees and the balloons, and it and every piece between it and the empty square all slide over by one. It takes just 1 move, a single click, and saves time. You will have better High Scores, with fewer overall moves and faster times.

In Spinner, the standard left-click rotates the piece one quarter turn in a clockwise direction. And in the Gold Edition, right-click to rotate the piece one quarter turn in the opposite direction.

a left-click spins the tile clockwise a quarter-turn

You would need to click the picture piece in the upper right corner of the image 3 times to spin it into the right orientation with left-clicks (clockwise turns, the direction of the arrow). But with Picture Puzzle Gold Edition, right-click this piece to spin it counter-clockwise. It then lines up correctly in just 1 move, saving 2 moves and a couple seconds.

There are currently no short-cuts for the Swapper game. Do you have a suggestion?

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