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Meak

AUTorEPAIR

Sequel of Capture the Flag, you have to find where to place B at the right time to unlock the two sides of the loop.

AUTorEPAIR
Meak, Sep 30, 2021
Denis Nazin and Labyrenight like this.
    • Meak
      READ THIS BEFORE PLAYING THIS LEVEL.

      Due to some inaccuracies in the position, if you let this game play itself long enough (like, 10 minutes), bots might eventually offset enough and get you the final star without even playing. This is not where you will enjoy it the most. Please solve it yourself :)

      You might want to play the prequel Capture the Flag https://mekoramaforum.com/media/capture-the-flag.24356/#comment-150474
      to get a sense of where the difficulty is (and it's not that complicated).

      Now some hints unless you want to discover everything yourself:

      Yes, if L escapes, the topmost R zapper will get the star. That's all the point. Every 12 moves it tries to escape, but there is a guard every time. Where does this guard come from? How to move the guard away, just once?

      Try having B cut any of the two loops and enjoy the auto-repair mechanism that will prevent L from escaping.

      I placed sand where you might want to move B to reach various destinations

      Yes you'll need to sacrifice B, but on which of the two sands?

      There are a lot of mechanisms to remove unwanted zapper bots, depending on where B falls when zapped. Hence, not everything is relevant for everyone.

      Sacrificing B is not enough. You'll have to offset the lowest-level R bot wisely so that the zapper you deviate can cut the second loop.

      If x and y are the two entries of the gate (x the big loop and y the small loop), the output of the gate is (x or y) - that's the central piece of fun - the new big loop is x, and the small loop is (x and y) or not x.
    • Rating:
      5/5,
      Labyrenight
      I just need to put B under the "stair" and L will go from above, so the top zapper can go to win block.
    • cimarronline
      @Labyrenight Yes, there's more than one shortcut with that move.
      If B's eye is put under that double step combination (used in many places in this level), Z won't turn but will walk back across it, interrupting the bots' path.
    • Meak
      Oh sh**t I did not know about this shortcut.
    • cimarronline
      @Meak You could probably stop it pretty easily...
      By making the blocks under those stair locations unwalkable by B.
      Meak likes this.
    • MekaSage
      @Meak - are you by chance an electrical engineer? Your levels are giving me flashbacks to my college days.
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  • Category:
    Logic/Puzzle
    Uploaded By:
    Meak
    Date:
    Sep 30, 2021
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    660
    Comment Count:
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