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LovaP48
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Simply and totally stumped here.
I see absolutely no way how to make any "process" last long enough for me to go through the entire passage. (In fact, I think I barely make it halfway toward the doors before it closes on me, so I'm not even close.)

I assume that the room might be asking of me a similar trick to what
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did, but I don't see how that kind of behaviour helps here.

Help, please?
08-06-2025 at 07:57 PM
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You're on the right track.

What I did was take advantage of stunning to stun one sticky soulless with another, though I didn't have to stun the sworded soulless. For my solution, I had some turns left over and only needed a total of
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As for the positions of the soulless, the
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Attached is a picture of the setup.
08-06-2025 at 08:41 PM
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My solution needs fewer mirrors, and as such I found it a lot easier to think about than any sort of more elaborate machine.

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08-06-2025 at 09:47 PM
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Thank you to both! :thumbsup
I solved it using Clock's approach, because I was already in the middle of making it when Fogel responded.
But both approaches are very clever and so is the room as a whole!
08-06-2025 at 10:20 PM
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