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boulderdash 1 i/infinity
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dustin
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DUSTIN                            2026-01-24 18:22
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AAAAAAAND... THE SHOW GOES ON! HALFTIME IS OVER, NOW COMES THE SECOND HALF OF THE SUPER-HARD VERSIONS OF BD1 CAVES!  
  
FOR THIS ONE, I CHECKED ALL THE POSSIBLE SEEDS TO FIND THE MOST INTERESTING ONE!  
  
| RANDOM SEED: 99  
I CHECKED THE SEEDS IN THE FOLLOWING WAY:  
Α FIRST, I SORTED OUT ALL SEEDS WHERE I COULD (MORE OR LESS) EASILY GET 100+Α. THIS IS BECAUSE THE BD1 ENGINE HAS A 2-DIGIT RESTRICTION FOR Α REQUIREMENT, AND EASY BONUS ΑΑΑ ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE GOAL OF THIS SERIES!  
Α THAT LEFT ONLY ABOUT 10 PERCENT OF ALL POSSIBLE SEEDS TO CHECK. AMONG THESE, I TRIED TO GET THE AS MANY ΑΑΑ AS POSSIBLE, THEN FIND OUT WHICH ONE TOOK ME LONGEST.   
Α I ENDED UP WITH TWO MAIN CANDIDATES:  
- THIS ONE (SEED 99): ONE EXTRA Α IS POSSIBLE, POSSIBLY MORE (BUT I THINK NOT), BUT IT TOOK ME A LOT OF SESSIONS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET 99 OR 100Α.  
- THE OTHER MAIN CANDIDATE WAS SEED 17, WHERE I'M TOTALLY CERTAIN THAT EXACTLY 99Α IS THE MAX. HOWEVER, THE MINI PUZZLES Κ HAS TO SOLVE TO GET THE MAX AREN'T QUITE AS INTERESTING AS SEED 99 HERE.  
SO I ENDED UP WITH THIS VERSION, WITH ONE EXTRA Α BUT INTERESTING METHODS REQUIRED TO GET EVEN THE REQUIRED 99Α!  
  
| REQUIREMENT: 99/100Α  
AS MENTIONED ABOVE, I CAN'T EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY THAT MORE THAN 100Α ARE POSSIBLE, BUT I WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED IF IT ACTUALLY IS! :D  
ANYWAY, THE MOST TRICKY SPOTS CONTAIN TWO NEIGHBORED ΑΑ ANYWAY, SO THOSE HAVE TO BE SOLVED EVEN FOR THE REQUIRED 99Α.  
  
| TIME: 100  
AT FIRST, I HAD 120 AND I ALREADY FOUND THAT HARD ENOUGH, BUT THEN MY AMBITION DARKSTOORMED AND I WANTED TO BE MORE AND MORE EFFICIENT. SO 100 IS MY FINAL STATEMENT, AND IT'S POSSIBLE WITH AVERAGE PUSHING SPEED!  
  
GRADES  
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A-GRADE: GET 99Α (MINIMUM)  
S-GRADE: GET 100Α  
SS-GRADE: EITHER GET 101+Α (IMPOSSIBLE IMO) OR GET 100Α WITH 5 SECS REMAINING (SCORE 555)  
MAYBE darkstoorm WILL FIND THE SS-GRADE TO EASY THIS TIME, BUT 555 POINTS IS TOO NICE OF A LIMIT ;)  
  
REMARK: I RECOMMEND TO FREEZE THE TIME AT FIRST, BECAUSE "GETTING ENOUGH ΑΑΑ AT ALL" AND "BEING TIME EFFICIENT" ARE TWO INDEPENDANT AND DIFFICULT TASKS TO SOLVE HERE!

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DUSTIN                            2026-01-24 18:31
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EDIT ON MY FINAL REMARK BELOW: WELL, THE TWO TASKS AREN'T COMPLETELY INDEPENDANT. AT SOME POINT, I HAD TO CHANGE MY SOLUTION STRATEGY TO BE MORE TIME EFFICIENT!

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NESDORI                           2026-01-25 23:29
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dustin, WHAT'S THE GRADE FOR 755+ POINTS? ;)  
  
I PUT A LOT MORE EFFORT ON THIS CAVE THAN USUALLY. I KINDA FELT OBLIGED - OR RATHER, HONORED - TO DO SO AFTER REALIZING HOW MUCH WORK dustin PUT ON THIS CAVE. GOING THROUGH EVERY SEED AND THEN CHECKING THE POSSIBLE AMOUNTS OF ΑΑΑ FOR EVERY CAVE MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE A TASK. IT'S NOWHERE EASY TO DETERMINE THAT 100Α IS POSSIBLE HERE. IT'S A LOT EASIER WHEN YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT 100Α IS POSSIBLE. YOUR ENTHUSIASM WITH THIS AND ALL OTHER SERIES AND CAVES IS INCREDIBLE. MY HAT IS OFF.  
  
I SPENT SEVERAL HOURS ON THIS. THE ACTUAL PUZZLE TO GET 100Α WAS ALREADY CHALLENGING AND BUT IT WAS JUST A SMALL FRACTION, LESS THAN AN HOUR. I THEN SPENT TIME SPEED OPTIMIZING THINGS AND ESPECIALLY HANDLING OF THE FALLS WHEN THEY ARE ACTIVATED. I SPENT OVER HALF OF TIME JUST FOR THAT TRYING THINGS ON THE CAVE EDITOR. IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT OPTIMIZATION BECAUSE A LOT OF TIME IS POTENTIALLY WASTED THERE. THIS SEED IS ALSO QUITE NASTY TO DO THE FALLS EFFICIENTLY BUT I'M QUITE HAPPY WITH THE SOLUTION I EVENTUALLY FOUND. FUNNILY, I PRACTICED AND OPTIMIZED TIME USAGE IN EACH MINI PUZZLE AND CAVE SECTION SEPARATELY BEFORE I MADE MY FIRST FULL RUN SO I JUST HAD A ROUGH IDEA HOW MUCH THE TOTAL RUN WILL TAKE TIME. I WAS PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT I'LL SOLVE THIS IN UNDER 100 SECONDS BUT THE ACTUAL MARGIN WAS A BIT SURPRISE :)  
  
I GOT 100Α (WITH 26 SECONDS LEFT) AND I AGREE WITH dustin THAT THIS IS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ΑΑΑ POSSIBLE. IT'S ALMOST POSSIBLE TO STRUCTURALLY PROVE THAT AND THE ONLY PART ON THE STRUCTURE WHICH SPOILS THE FULL PROOF IS NOT REALLY A WEAKNESS.

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DUSTIN                            2026-01-26 13:44
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nesdori:  
  
FOR 755 POINTS, YOU GET THE "N" GRADE. THIS CAN STAND EITHER FOR "nesdori ONLY", "NEXT LEVEL SKILL" OR "NO WAY THIS IS POSSIBLE!" ;D  
  
WELL, ACTUALLY I'M NOT SUPER-SUPER-SURPRISED ABOUT YOUR RESULT (ONLY SUPER-SURPRISED)! I HAD THE CAVE READY FOR RELEASE SINCE LAST YEAR, AND I WANTED TO TIME-OPTIMIZE MY SOLUTION FURTHER, BUT THEN I FOUND I LACKED MOTIVATION. I GUESS YOU MIGHT HAVE SAVED MOST OF YOUR TIME IN THE TOP-LEFT SECTION, COMPARED TO MY TESTS.  
  
ALSO, THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS! MY AMBITION TO FIND THE BEST RANDOM SEED FOR THE INFINITY SERIES OUTPOWERED THE FACT THAT IT WAS KINDA MONOTONOUS AT TIMES, BUT THEN AGAIN, WHENEVER I FOUND A FITTING SEED, IT WAS FUN TO EXPLORE IT AND SEE HOW MANY ΑΑΑ I COULD GET. SOMETIMES I GOT ALL THE STRUCTURALLY POSSIBLE ΑΑΑ RATHER QUICKLY (AND SORTED THAT SEED OUT), BUT SOMETIMES I FOUND NEW POSSIBILITIES STILL DURING MY 3RD AND 4TH SESSION, AND THAT MADE IT INTERESTING! :D OVERALL, NOW I'M QUITE PLEASED THAT I INVESTED THE TIME. IT FEELS TRULY OPTIMIZED NOW, WHICH IS SORT OF THE POINT BEHIND THIS SERIES :)  
  
BTW, I'M SURE YOU NOTICED, BUT THIS SEED IS RATHER L1-ISH (THE LEFT SIDE OF I/1  HAS MOVED TO THE RIGHT SIDE HERE)! ALSO THE SEEDS ARE VERY CLOSE (100/99) :D  
  
THE OTHER SEED WHICH WAS MY SECOND CANDIDATE - SEED 17 - WILL PROBABLY COME AS A BONUS AFTER THE SERIES FINISHES. THERE IT'S STRUCTURALLY CERTAIN THAT 99Α ARE THE MAX. THESE ARE ALSO NOT TRIVIAL TO GET, BUT EASIER THAN HERE IMO. I GUESS IT WILL TAKE YOU LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR IF YOU NEEDED LESS THAN AN HOUR FOR THIS ONE :D  
  
IN OTHER CAVES LIKE K AND L, I ALSO CHOSE THE MOST INTERESTING SEED OUT OF ALL FROM 0-255. HOWEVER, HERE I DID THE TESTING WORK ALREADY A DECADE AGO, FOR MY GDASH GAME "BD EXPERT LEVELS". THST WAS ALSO QUITE FUN, ESPECIALLY FOR CAVE K, WHERE EVERY SEED FEELS TRULY LIKE A NEW CAVE TO PLAY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHICH ΑΑΑ WILL BE EASY THIS TIME AND WHICH ONES WILL TEASE Κ'S BRAIN :D

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DUSTIN                            2026-01-26 13:47
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ANOTHER MEANING FOR THE "N" GRADE COULD BE "NERDIER THAN ME" - THAT'S A COMPLIMENT! MAYBE THAT'S MY FAV :D