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2022-01-01 23:26 nesdori  
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my new year score contribution; double the score and reverse the digits :)

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2022-01-02 10:06 dustin  
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 nesdori , haha :d i must've reduced the amoeba timer for testings and then forgort to set it high for the final version :d

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2022-01-02 16:42 Arno  
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so...  nesdori 's solution is not intended?

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2022-01-02 17:25 dustin  
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 Arno , no it wasn't ;) your run is the one and only intended one!

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2022-01-02 18:01 DarkStoorM  
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I swear I tried this solution and it didn't work :D :D maybe I didn't try hard enough!

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2022-01-03 15:18 dustin  
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so here comes the explanation! :d  
  
 Arno 's run is intended. there are two cso tricks involved:  
\ when ^ moves through the tunnel with the amoebas, it looks like he traps the amoebas for one frame and they should convert into \\. however, the top amoeba is scanned before ^ and the bottom amoeba after ^, which means that the bottom amoeba is trapped only in the frame when ^ moves between them, and the top amoeba is only trapped in the frame when ^ moves away. so there's no frame where b o t h amoebas are trapped, so they don't convert when ^ just passes them!  
\ later, when the two amoebas do convert, ^ must snap the top \ first. in the frame where the amoebas convert, the top amoeba converts before ^ is scanned, so ^ can take the \. however, if ^ tries to collect the bottom \ first it takes one frame longer because the bottom amoeba converts only after ^ is scanned. this one frame would kill ^ because of the voodoo construction at the right.  
  
 nesdori 's and  darkstoorm 's solutions are based on an oversight: for some reason i set the amoeba timer to 15 and then forgot about it. with amoeba timer 30, these solutions would be almost impossible :d

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2022-01-03 15:48 DarkStoorM  
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OH.... so that's why it didn't work, I actually tried to snap bottom first. An oversight from my side, I forgot about the details of CSO in this case :D

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2022-01-04 18:39 dustin  
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hehe :D