Follow-up: Send Away #13

This exercise was originally posted at: http://maritimeorca0.blogspot.com/2016/11/send-away-13.html

The Task

Solve Send Away #13

You are given an empty cell in the middle and must determine which of the eight directions (including diagonals) will result in being sent away to the black cell.

Solutions

Send Away #13

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Notes

The reason I changed the format to a pursuit of the black cell is because I rendomly selected a picture as the basis of the puzzle, and the picture would not work with the normal rules. The original picture, a flower, can be found at: https://flic.kr/p/a34uy5

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