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Can you help the dust mites find their way to the bed? The arrows in the squares show the direction they need to go, and the numbers indicate how many squares they need to travel. The dust mites must start on one of the blue squares: but which one?
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Brainteaser hint
You can solve this by trying every starting spot, but it might be faster to work backwards and find all the arrows that lead back to the middle!
Brainteaser answer
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