My favorite level to come out of the STB competition. Fun, messy, and a ton of options to move blocks around. Maybe not optimal yet but probably close.
Difficult to get everything sorted out in this level.
I think my general path is good, but I am sure I am missing all kinds of pipelines.
Let see what the final stepcount will turn out :)
Woooow, the current number of steps is the same as the year of this movie release.
If I was a beast I'd tell I got completely stumped.
But even so, I consider this a great level.
EDIT (about an hour later): I now saw a possibility to break through, but probably my 807 is far from optimal. I'll keep trying. :)
This is a great puzzle!
you must have to teleport through a block or something because I refuse to believe this is possible otherwise
edit-finally managed to get it after taking nearly 4 times the average solve time
Luckily I feel like I didn't have to fully explore every option. Each wall and block has been carefully placed to maximize the number of 2-offs, which isn't actually too hard if you know what you're doing, but what is impressive is how well the solution blends in with everything else.
24 attempts
15 years ago, I gave up on that level after having tried again and again to solve my 2 off in vain. Today, on first try, I was back to my 2 off and it was clear it can't be optimized.
So, I redid my route, slowly, searching for different possibilities. I then saw that there is one free-to-move block I had not used up to now. I checked what I can do with it and won two tries later!
WOW! That level was such fun! I really enjoyed first finding a way to reach both sides of main lock, what was like solving a puzzle, and from there, searching for cuts, and once 4 off, optimizing... Pure fun from beginning to the end!
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