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Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (+1)

I think I have an idea but I'm not sure how to follow through on it.

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12-10-2022 at 04:57 AM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (+3)

Your idea about the stable position is correct.
(At least I think I know what you mean, I do not have CaravelNet and cannot see the room image.)

The bad news is that, at least for me, the specifics were a bit of trial and error, with execution feeling quite magical.
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12-10-2022 at 06:54 AM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (+1)

Solved it. And looking at the highscores I still managed to overcomplicate it. Anyways, thank you and on to the next level!

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12-10-2022 at 07:18 AM

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Great job then!

Out of curiousity, what was the ballpark of the the high scores here?
My demo says 162 and I kind of just scrambled together something that worked

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12-10-2022 at 07:24 AM

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12-10-2022 at 07:36 AM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (0)

I had 2 solutions that I hoped would work but didn't.
First one is in the picture.
Second one was:

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Am I even close?

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12-16-2022 at 03:56 AM

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The one in the attached photo is doable I think. Just going to take a lot of fiddling. You have the right starting idea at the very least.

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12-16-2022 at 04:18 AM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (0)

Okay cool, at least I'm not completely off.

What I'm trying to figure out:

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12-16-2022 at 04:41 AM

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This is one of our last rooms, and it's got us stumped.

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12-20-2022 at 04:16 AM

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Camwoodstock wrote:
This is one of our last rooms, and it's got us stumped.

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×We get the idea of squeezing the roach queen between two gel babies so they get stuck on each other, but where should the gel babies be when we step on the plate at (16,17)? And should we be putting the evil eye at either (16,14) or (19,17)? Should we be making any use of the trapdoors to influence the gel babies any?

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12-20-2022 at 06:29 AM

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LovaP48 wrote:

Camwoodstock wrote:
This is one of our last rooms, and it's got us stumped.

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×We get the idea of squeezing the roach queen between two gel babies so they get stuck on each other, but where should the gel babies be when we step on the plate at (16,17)? And should we be putting the evil eye at either (16,14) or (19,17)? Should we be making any use of the trapdoors to influence the gel babies any?

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×When Beethro steps on the plate to release the queen, my gel babies were at (21,9) and (25,11).

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×I don't see how that eye placement would be helpful at all. I made use of the eye by putting it at
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×the tile (20,7) and releasing it at the right time.

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×I definitely made use of trapdoors.
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×I dropped the entire "northern wall" of them and most of the "eastern wall" too. As well as some others to move the eye around of course.

We're still a little stuck.

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12-20-2022 at 08:53 PM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (0)

This looks finish-able.
Unfortunately, as per my initial message in the thread, the execution feels quite magical.

Here is how my solution panned out, gradually revealing more and more of the position:

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12-20-2022 at 09:05 PM

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LovaP48 wrote:
This looks finish-able.
Unfortunately, as per my initial message in the thread, the execution feels quite magical.

Here is how my solution panned out, gradually revealing more and more of the position:

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×Eye wakes up when I step at (26,13).
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×At that point, I am facing NE.
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×The gel baby is at (30,14).
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×Then I rush.

We tried to line up everything, but it's still just off...

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12-21-2022 at 02:08 AM

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Re: Treacle Stew : Level Three : 4 East (+1)

This was my final setup (big spoiler

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The nice thing about it:

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Sequence:

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12-21-2022 at 04:28 AM

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