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2025-03-06 10:18 dustin  
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for the jubilee, i tried to put as many consecutive bd1 caves into one normal-sized cave as possible :d  
  
i also have a version with a l l bd1 caves, but that one is more chaotic. that's probably going to be episode 101 ;)  
  
the cave may be harder than it looks!  
difficulty: 5/10

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2025-03-07 23:52 DarkStoorM  
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 nesdori  always finds a waY :D :D

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2025-03-08 00:15 nesdori  
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 darkstoorm , my solution is actually a compromise; my original idea had one Α more. +1Α would be possible if the amoeba will be slow for a longer time :)

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2025-03-08 00:22 DarkStoorM  
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 nesdori : I had to sacrifice two for three, but with more time I would just get +1 equal to your score :D

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2025-03-08 11:58 dustin  
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hehe, i was wondering if such bonus discussions would come ;)

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2025-03-08 13:01 heywood  
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demo time? i'm keen to see the 17k score solutions!

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2025-03-08 14:45 nesdori  
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now that i saw  darkstoorm 's solution i realized that one more Α and 18300+ score is indeed possible :)

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2025-03-08 15:56 heywood  
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wow, hats off!

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2025-03-09 02:26 DarkStoorM  
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Ahhh,  nesdori  I think I see it, it's on the triple ΒΒΒ below ^, right? You snap the dirt on the bottom Β and push it out from the left? Probably requires insane luck to push all Β first before Θ suffocates :D

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2025-03-09 10:42 nesdori  
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 darkstoorm , i was talking about exploding a hole on the upper left room corner so that Κ can access amoeba without first pushing all the ΒΒΒ. with the explosion it's possible to push 3 ΒΒΒ instead of 2 from the upper left room and it's just a race against the total time and not the amoeba conversion time. i think that with good planning the time shouldn't be a problem.

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2025-03-09 11:01 nesdori  
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 darkstoorm , my original plan was to use one of upper | on the upper left room to explode one | and then it would have been possible to push 4 ΒΒΒΒ instead of 2. but the problem with that is you have to visit the amoeba before pushing all the ΒΒΒ. then you need 2 lucky pushes per Β to get over the gap and i estimated that usually two ΒΒ remains on the left side of the gap so the probability to do that is 1/256. maybe with  some luck and good execution sometimes just one Β and 1/16. but when i saw your solution i realized that it's possible to do a hole using a lower Β to explode it and get three ΒΒΒ to be pushed.

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2025-03-10 03:02 nesdori  
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ok, i finally got one more Α (123Α total) using the "butterfly hole" technique with no lucky pushes which we discussed with  darkstoorm  on the remix cave commentary. it turned out that the amoeba conversion was still the biggest obstacle; i failed many times because the amoeba was growing too quickly. there's actually plenty of total time left. in fact there's so much time that i wonder if  dustin  hid one more Α somewhere.. :)

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2025-03-11 22:06 DarkStoorM  
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Hehe, who would have thought that a simple cave would lead to a bonus Α hunt :D  
Remind's me of  dustin 's Diamond Hunting series, but with a little bit more puzzling :D  
Nicely done  nesdori , it was fun watching and figuring this out!  
  
Who knows, maybe the next one will also have more "hidden" bonus ΑΑΑ! :O

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2025-03-19 11:07 dustin  
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quite impressive results! and it gives me a new idea for a cso/ puzzletopia cave :d