Contributors:

Barbara De Roes           bderoes@hotmail.com
Reginald User                reguser@rochester.rr.com
Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld   meier@math.msu.edu
Ryan Muehlhauser          rmlp1@earthlink.net

Below is a list of the best scores (least moves) solutions known for the levels in the DEFIANT1 puzzle set. There may very well be shorter solutions to some of these levels, but these are the shortest solutions for which I have verification. The actual solutions are available as DEFIANT1.MV in HD1BEST.ZIP

LEVEL ORIGINAL BEST
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 1 172 160
 2 228 191
 3 136 135
 4 289 168
 5 323 300
 6 352 170
 7 128 114
 8 246 202
 9 196 137
 10 424 268
 11 193 156
 12 246 223
 13 279 168
 14 403 271
 15 304 284
 16 140 59
 17 266 205
 18 90 85
 19 359 359
 20 223 194
 21 233 173
 22 577 374
 23 257 221
 24 704 371
 25 633 375
 26 370 292
 27 315 255
 28 502 272
 29 793 380
 30 310 269
 31 119 100
 32 286 258
 33 103 99
 34 145 89
 35 253 194
 36 137 124
 37 942 755
 38 223 207
 39 155 137
 40 352 258
 41 398 247
 42 303 273
 43 333 275
 44 551 441
 45 159 139
 46 194 141
 47 226 142
 48 362 287
 49 450 344
 50 164 145
 51 253 236
 52 201 169
 53 224 212
 54 195 170
 55 297 263
 56 214 194
 57 185 173
 58 246 198
 59 89 88
 60 320 228
 61 152 125
 62 99 97
 63 378 175
 64 414 257
 65 306 239
 66 132 106
 67 127 89
 68 171 71
 69 173 149
 70 145 117
 71 419 289
 72 333 257
 73 1149 514
 74 316 191
 75 351 346
 76 172 61
 77 77 65
 78 151 123
 79 410 120
 80 732 572
 81 181 162
 82 249 233
 83 108 96
 84 149 134
 85 199 173
 86 170 118
 87 449 246
 88 319 113
 89 487 377
 90 126 111
 91 100 87
 92 68 66
 93 55 51
 94 162 117
 95 78 73
 96 237 227
 97 67 59
 98 94 84
 99 158 129
100 364 283
101 145 136
102 620 595
103 191 187
104 136 126
105 103 92
106 205 185

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