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2024-09-18 21:16 dustin  
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four ΗΗΗΗ, four cages. so far, so good, but how to blast into the first cage? hmmmmmmm... :d :d

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2024-09-19 19:07 nesdori  
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four ΗΗΗΗ, four cages and apparently four bonus Α :D i have feeling that each 4 bonus soluti0n is different. it'll be interesting to see them and check if any of them can be upgraded to 5Α :) i didn't spend that much time pondering my solution and i'm still not sure if 5 bonus Α is possible or not.

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2024-09-19 19:17 dustin  
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interesting... ;)

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2024-09-19 19:20 dustin  
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oh, i wrote that before seeing  nesdori 's comment :d but "interesting" still holds, maybe added by "i'm curious too!" :d

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2024-09-19 21:13 heywood  
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i''ll start the ball rolling then. my demo is visible now.

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2024-09-19 21:38 nesdori  
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MINE FREE TOO. SLIGHT DIFFERENCES AS I ANTICIPATED. now that i saw  heywood 's and  darkstoorm 's solutions i realized that i overthought my solution and made it unnecessarily complex :)

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2024-09-20 11:04 dustin  
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ah yes, very interesting indeed! :d  
  
so the theoretical max is 7 extra ΑΑΑΑΑΑΑ, limited by the amount of ΒΒΒ which can be thrown through the ΛΛΛ. but it's inevitable to waste some of the ΒΒΒ , so the decisive question is if it's possible to waste less than three ΒΒΒ.

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2024-09-20 13:16 heywood  
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i think because the magic wall time is tuned so closely to the amount of time it takes to run between the four cages, then it's not possible to delay the dropping of the boulders for the bonus diamonds. so some get wasted as the diamonds from the butterfly briefly stops them from emerging from the wall. i'd love to be proved wrong though. :)

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2024-09-20 20:06 nesdori  
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 heywood , it's possible to delay it by one frame if the last | is snap dropped. my solution actually uses it :) another way to get some time to work with is to push the | which activates the magic wall along a slide of other |||. but because the slide wastes precious | it's not possible to get as many bonus Α as with the standard approach :)

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2024-09-20 21:14 heywood  
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every day i am learning.