A Puzzle

I was recently at Silinteri (2nd hand store nearby) and a table was selling these new wooden puzzles (brain teasers) for only 1 Euro a piece and I couldn't resist.

After showing "somebody" them - who is a huge puzzle fanatic - they decided it was messed up.

This puzzle shown below (with the solution blurred out) is called, "The Flea".  The object of the puzzle is to exchange places of the two colors (wood and yellow) by only moving one piece at a time towards it's goal end, not going backwards and you are able to skip a piece if there is an opening available (think like Solitaire - not the card version).
The way it was originally set up - the empty space was not in the middle but off to the side - which greatly confused "somebody".

Well, we both looked at the solution and the instructions (which were in English), and it didn't say or indicate where the empty space should be located. So I looked it over after "somebody's" several attempts at solving the puzzle - and within 10 seconds, I began to solve the puzzle using the solution.

The reason for blogging about this particular puzzle is to inform you, in case you buy the same one, is to let you know that the empty space starts in the center.

Oh and the solution is written in 3 columns of 8 moves per column.  The "somebody" who was confused - was reading the solution from left to right, like in English.

I read the solution from top to bottom - left column to the right, column by column.  That made sense to me - like they were written out in bullet-point form!

And it worked.

That "somebody" wasn't overly impressed I figured out something before they did...points for the WIFE!! (ahem - I mean me...wouldn't want to ruin "somebody's reputation".) :P

The puzzle is created by (or at least distributed by): Oy Sloyd Ab - located in Helsinki.