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Dragon Fogel
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This room doesn't make any sense to me at all.

There are four plates that need to be held down for the briar to release the roach.

There are five babies available for holding down plates.

I cannot find any way of arranging the babies that doesn't lose at least two of them by the time I lead any onto pressure plates.

What do I need to do here?
10-30-2017 at 07:46 PM
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icon Re: Take Five : Stuck in the Muck : 3 South, 1 East (+1)  
Oh man. I'll admit that I had to cheat and watch Chaco's LP of this when recording demos for the hold. This one was super fiddly. Here are some hints.

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10-30-2017 at 08:36 PM
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icon Re: Take Five : Stuck in the Muck : 3 South, 1 East (0)  
This room can be conceptualized mostly as a sequence of moves from just 4 options: NW, NE, SW, SE. The intended solution's first three moves are:
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After that, it's fairly straightforward. The only other important trick is
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There is a slightly fiddlier solution that cuts off the first of those three moves.

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10-31-2017 at 03:47 AM
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