Level MINUS 17

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Re: Level -17

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Alemarius Nexus wrote:Hey, I have completed this level, but I saw some people here saying they can solve this puzzle in 5 or less moves. Is that really true in the general case? I wrote myself a brute-force program that simply tries all possible sequences of moves (yeah, it's "cheating" but not cheating), and most of the time it required 7, sometimes 6 moves. Am I missing something about the mechanic? Is my program wrong?
I hated this level at the time. Recently I revisited it, after someone claimed "it's not that hard' here. I started with a puzzle that looked almost complete and took my time, and yeah, it's not that difficult ... and I did it in 5 moves.
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Re: Level -17

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I highly recommend grabbing a piece of paper and a pen and drawing five by five squares with numbers. Inside of each box write a number of clicks required to change the tile color to the right one.
Having in mind how do those tiles react on click and which color switches to which will make the riddle easy.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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I completed the puzzle and whenever I click to continue, it sends me to the beginning. I don't know what to do to continue. can i pm someone?
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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yaslover wrote: 23-04-2021 04:04 I completed the puzzle and whenever I click to continue, it sends me to the beginning. I don't know what to do to continue. can i pm someone?
Sure.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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i think i found a bug on this level idk..
i was able to solve the puzzle 9 times in a 20 sec and i got a reward too!
interesting level lol
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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Holmes-Student wrote: 12-06-2021 12:19 i think i found a bug on this level idk..
i was able to solve the puzzle 9 times in a 20 sec and i got a reward too!
interesting level lol
Now that's intriguing, please PM me what you did!
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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i solved it, but i have a question. can i PM someone? thx!
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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VanAchterwerk wrote: 05-08-2021 15:10 i solved it, but i have a question. can i PM someone? thx!
Sure
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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I don't know if anyone still reads any of this, but I wanted to say this is my favourite level. Ever. In the whole thing.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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ashengem81 wrote: 05-03-2023 21:37 I don't know if anyone still reads any of this, but I wanted to say this is my favourite level. Ever. In the whole thing.
There's still quite some activity here. Good that you loved this level, I hated it lol
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Re: Level -17

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LeagueHunter wrote: 29-06-2019 15:15 I highly recommend grabbing a piece of paper and a pen and drawing five by five squares with numbers. Inside of each box write a number of clicks required to change the tile color to the right one.
Having in mind how do those tiles react on click and which color switches to which will make the riddle easy.
This is the best advice. I wrote a small program in JavaScript that did exactly that, and ran it in the browser console for every puzzle. Solved all 9 in no time.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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Hi,

Is this level broken? I solved it multiple times but after it the puzzle disappears and I get a PHP error like this (redacted for spoiler reasons):

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Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: join(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type ?array, string given in <path-to-this-level>.php:97 Stack trace: #0 <path-to-this-level>.php(97): join(Array, ',') #1 {main} thrown in <path-to-this-level>.php on line 97
I tried this in level in multiple browsers (including clearing the cookies between attempts) but I think this is server-side.

Can someone please advise/check it? Thanks.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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whip wrote: 03-11-2023 01:08 Hi,

Is this level broken? I solved it multiple times but after it the puzzle disappears and I get a PHP error like this (redacted for spoiler reasons):

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Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: join(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type ?array, string given in <path-to-this-level>.php:97 Stack trace: #0 <path-to-this-level>.php(97): join(Array, ',') #1 {main} thrown in <path-to-this-level>.php on line 97
I tried this in level in multiple browsers (including clearing the cookies between attempts) but I think this is server-side.

Can someone please advise/check it? Thanks.
Thanks for the notice, we'll look into it.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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Should be fixed.
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Re: Level MINUS 17

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Jay2k1 wrote: 03-11-2023 22:41 Should be fixed.
Confirmed that it is fixed. Thanks for the quick response!
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