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You get to be the star of your very own magic show. Can you perform all the tricks?

Thanks to testers:
Briareos, Doom, Michthro, and Rabscuttle.

Jason
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First Download!

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Chaco
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Cool, another Larry Murk hold. I will immediately download it and bash my head against the wall repeatedly.

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Chaco wrote:
Cool, another Larry Murk hold. I will immediately download it and bash my head against the wall repeatedly.

Same here. Make sure to dummy vote!

Keep posting,

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Is it supposed to be anyone edit?

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Ezlo wrote:
Is it supposed to be anyone edit?

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Bahahahaha!

Anyway, I've beaten about... two rooms so far.

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I've got about three rooms... which is probably more than I've ever done in a Larry hold...

-- Tim

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Ezlo wrote:
Is it supposed to be anyone edit?

Yeah, good point. I'm not much for updating holds and if anyone cares to look at the hold in the editor before completing it, then have at it. I think it's more fun to complete the hold without seeing it in the editor, but in this case it'll be up to the player's discretion.

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Well, I have beaten one of Larry's holds. Guess which one.

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Chaco wrote:
Well, I have beaten one of Larry's holds. Guess which one.

Easy or Hard?

@Larry:

Geeez, I didn't even get to test more than a level thanks to my birthday - but hey, a few number one scores make for a nice present...

np: The Go Find - Modern Times (Miami)

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Am just about to download it, but if it's a larrymurk hold, it's got to be good!

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Okay, so I'm stuck in the very last room, but I guess that's enough to rate it:

8 brains, and 9/10...

Nice brain teasers - although I've really developed a hatred of clowns thanks to the last level...

np: SCSI-9 - Endlich (The Line Of Nine)

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Tricky hold, I couldn't do any rooms, but it was still great, which I think is a hard trick to get. Congrats Larry!

I gave it 9/10 and 9 brains. And I've +1'd the hold karma.

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
Tricky hold, I couldn't do any rooms[...]

That's what the Hints & Solutions board is there for...

*hint hint, solute solute*

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Nudge nudge, nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean say no more. For the Monty Python fans.

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
Nudge nudge, nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean say no more. For the Monty Python fans.

ITYM "Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean say no more."

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Briareos wrote:

Pilchard VIII wrote:
Nudge nudge, nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean say no more. For the Monty Python fans.

ITYM "Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean know what I mean say no more."

Is your...is your wife a goer? Eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge! Know what I mean? Say no more!

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Still, PHWOAR! Eh? PHWOAR!

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Why are you quoting 'Nudge, Nudge' in a thread about a larrymurk hold? If any MP quotes were to be used, it should be from the Gumby Brain Specialist sketch:

T.F. Gumby - "My brain hurts!!"

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Tscott wrote:
Why are you quoting 'Nudge, Nudge' in a thread about a larrymurk hold? If any MP quotes were to be used, it should be from the Gumby Brain Specialist sketch:

T.F. Gumby - "My brain hurts!!"

"Nuuurse!"

np: SCSI-9 - Albali (The Line Of Nine)

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Amazingly enough, I've managed to solve more rooms in this hold than any other of Larrymurk's 'difficult' holds. The puzzles I've hit so far are really clever, quite a lot of fun.

I've managed to complete all of Spark Tricks, and two out of three on the other two accessible levels. I still can't figure out the uncuttable tar or the infinite tarbabies puzzles, and there is at least one secret room that I haven't figured out yet either.

But wow...lots of fun!
I'm going to hold off on rating this until I'm done, but so far my impression is that it will be roughly 8 brains and a 10 rating.



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Briareos wrote:

Tscott wrote:
Why are you quoting 'Nudge, Nudge' in a thread about a larrymurk hold? If any MP quotes were to be used, it should be from the Gumby Brain Specialist sketch:

T.F. Gumby - "My brain hurts!!"

"Nuuurse!"

"Hello?"
"We forgot the anestetics!" - More Gumbys
I dunno I just felt like adding more Monty Python lines


Anyway great hold, but too hard for me.
I really did, however, yern Bethro to put a rabbit out of hat

Oh well

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Man! That was satisfactory. I would easily rank the third clown room as one of the very best in existance.

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A fine hold. I like the way you include even more difficult versions of the same puzzles to torment the completists out there Escape Tricks: 2W in particular had me stumped.

[Edit: Secret room hint request moved]

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Finally . . . after way too long I finished the hold. (Excellent . . . ) I am, however, not able to find all the secret rooms on the "Escape Tricks" level.

The one I've found and conquered isCan someone point me in the right direction?

(Literally, this time.)

Thanks -

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The secret rooms in Escape Tricks should be:

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key-smiter wrote:
Can someone point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Geeez, Larry - what a way of stealing my luster...

Oh yeah, if you liked Magic Show, go see "The Prestige" in a cinema near you...

np: Radiohead - 15 Step (Live at Bayside Embarcadero, San Diego CA (27.06.2006))

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Boy, talk about not paying attention . . . I cruised into those rooms, looking for remaining secrets, noticed they still had monsters in them, and kept blundering through the hold . . .

Textbook case of not paying attention.

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key-smiter wrote:
Textbook case of not paying attention.

Sounds more like a "textbook delver mistake". I can't do the deep cavernous voice so well, though.

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I finally conquered and mastered this hold. It took me a long time, and let's be honest, not a few trips to the hints board.

That final room was...well, evil and brilliant, and utterly not how I expected it to be solved. I couldn't figure it out until I watched Larry's demo.

But this is a brilliant and difficult hold. I give it a 10 for fun, and 8 brains of difficulty.

Josh

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