Very fun. The center reminded me of another puzzle I'd played before. The left side tripped me up at first because I overthought it, but once I figured it out I cut 6 moves and found the optimal solution.
Nice level, had fun solving it. I remove one star because a big part of the path is given with not much freedom around, so that the challenge is more or less only with the start zone.
(13 years ago) Cute ! 3 tries.
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EDIT 2022, Sept., 27th: Re-beaten. Loved it. As meowlong put it: center seemed cursed, at 1st. :))