School Days

Clever puzzle.

I won without using R and I didn't need 3 of the balls. Was that the intended way? Thanks

Thanks bb

gmacpro, can you share how you did it?

@gmacpro

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Both R's are needed as well as all balls. Curious how you done it.

Didn't look carefully enough and was going round in circles getting nowhere for a while. Very nice puzzle. Pillarbot got wedged in first time but i was able to free him. Worked smoothly second time.

@gmacpro

Spoiler: R-less win

did you use a TOA onto the three grass blocks leading to the corner pillar. There is also a naughty TOA win direct to winblock.

@ridgerunner whats TOA?

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One can use the slider to throw B to the stairs. But it is not easily executed. I tried to minimize the potential bypass but hopefully none other than this.

Only realised it when @gmacpro said there's a shortcut.

Thanks for trying out!

@Cody .. TOA -tripping on air- is a move that enables B to fall off a line of blocks. Mekorama players discourage its use as its hard to design out of a level.

Spoiler: Slider

i had tried the slider throw with the nudged ball in place about 10 times without success.

@ridgerunner

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Yea it wasn't easy to execute. I managed to do it out of suspicion it was doable and sheer luck.

As long as the ball dropped in front of pillarbot + executing the slider trick it can already reach winblock

@ridgerunner - I did.

@Cody - As @ridgerunner has brought up, I used ToA on the grass area basically directly below (but closer to the win) where B starts. ToA or trip on Air is where B taps the end block of three and just before B gets to the last block, tap the last block again. B may fall or do a ToA. Obvious this isn't the intended solution since you were not aware of ToA. Reading your comment about "out of suspicion it was doable and sheer luck" means I'll skip the intended way if sheer luck is required.

@gmacpro That was about a shortcut I think. There's a clean solution to this level.

@gmacpro Still not clear about the TOA method.

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But "sheer luck" was when I was testing out how you tried to solve without the R and 3 balls. The slider is able to toss B to the stairs.

Anyway here's the intended solution

Spoiler: Intended solution

1) B has to push the ball which will fall onto the "head".
2) Roll down the stairs using the ball that was infront of B during the start. Before doing this, you need to find the Draggable which is hidden behind Pillar-R and push it to prevent the ball from rolling away from the water.
3) B has to step on the ball that landed on the water, in turn pushes the other ball away (this is to prevent Pillar-R from moving away in the end)
4) Use the draggable and slide up to push the other ball and return down.
5) Walk above the ball that was done on Step 1). This triggers R to move to the next spot
6) Wait for R to land on the next "wait"
7) Push B to the Metal that is slightly covered from the map, and zoom in to find the draggable. Drag it to the top slowly, which will trigger R to move and hit the ball. This ball then lands on the water so that Pillar-R will walk out.
8) Wait for Pillar-R to arrive infront of B and let B fall on the ground.
9) Push the other ball on the water and guide Pillar-R on to the stairs. Pillar-R will stop as intended if done properly on step 3
10) Point B to winblock

@Cody Here's a video of the ToA Trick...

Spoiler: Clip

@Don G Rowe thanks. Haven't came across a card that uses TOA. Very sneaky trick