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Hour of Code Solution Guide

Use the following guide to help discover solutions to each Hour of Code puzzle. Remember there is

usually more than one solution, so make sure to be creative! In some puzzles you will see turtles

awaiting rescue. Collecting these sea turtles often requires a more complex solution, see if you’re up

to the challenge!

Help your students learn how to attach the blocks and hit the “Run” button. They’ll pass when they

reach a block next to the chest by cardinal direction. This includes the block below, to the left, or

above the chest.

Now that you retrieved a boat from the chest, head out to the last spot on the dock to take the boat

for a ride. Use the move forward blocks again but add a right turn to go out on the dock.

Use your boat to head across the ocean. You need to catch a cod and feed it to the dolphin in the

puzzle 4. Use 7 move forward blocks to reach the blocks.

Did you know if you feed cod to a salmon, it will lead you to a shipwreck? Also, using “repeat until

goal” blocks is helpful, so you don’t need to drag over the same block repeatedly. Use the loop

provided to reach the dolphin with just a few blocks of code!

In this puzzle, we’ve given you some starter “move forward” blocks. You’ll need to add a “turn right”

block to your code to get your player to the treasure chest.

Your player needs to navigate through the icebergs ahead to reach the underwater ruins. Catch a

salmon along your way to solve this puzzle. Using combinations of loops, you can move and turn left

and rate to get to the salmon. Try a more complex solution to save the sea turtle on your journey.

You have headed underwater to search the ruins for prismarine treasure. Also, this is the first puzzle

using conditionals. To create an efficient solution, we must use “if path” blocks which allow the player

to check for open paths to the left, right, or straight ahead. In this case, the player can check for paths

to the right to navigate through the ruins and reach the chest. For a greater challenge, use another “if

path” block to rescue the sea turtle along your way.

Let’s use some more conditionals to get through the volcanic island toward the tropical fish and the

coral reef. Again, you can use conditionals here to solve the puzzle. Use the “if path” blocks which

allow the player to check for open paths to the left, right, or straight ahead. For a greater challenge,

use another “if path” block to rescue the sea turtle along your way.

Your player has reached the coral reef and headed back underwater! Not only can you use

conditionals to check for open paths, you can also use them to complete certain moves only when

standing on a certain block type. See the blue and red coral blocks? Try turning left and right only

when standing on these blocks to make your way through the reef. The heart of the sea is waiting for

you in the treasure chest.

There is a squid hiding in this ocean monument. To catch the squid, you will need to use the “if

standing on” conditional again to get around this puzzle. See the sea lanterns? Use them to create

turns as needed to solve the puzzle.

In this final puzzle, you will need to activate the conduit surrounded by black concrete. To do this,

you’ll need to place prismarine on each block surrounding the black concrete, the dark prismarine and

the sea lanterns. Use the loop “repeat until conduit completed” and the conditional “if standing on”

together to solve this puzzle and reach puzzle twelve, open play.

This is an open play level! Use the code you have learned throughout Minecraft: Voyage Aquatic and

place blocks and spawn ocean mobs. This is a 20 by 20 level for even more space to build as you like.