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HAPPY NEW YEAR- 2008 AD	Fri 10 Apr 2009 12:12
<ahole> (SPOILER) Cook: Nice!
block cipher	Thu 09 Apr 2009 13:52
<radiant> Let's try thinking about this level in terms of "What does it take to construct it?" Changing the initial text makes a significant difference in the number of times each bit is flipped over the course of the cipher, and this certainly isn't a symmetric cipher, so a chosen key and ending text don't give a very easy path to finding the initial text needed. Brute-forcing the text just gets you into a search space twice as big as trying to brute force the key. We might have luck trying to look at the function from the perspective of "What are the valid predecessors of 0x0000000000000000?" and, while it may not be feasible to expand the search tree out to the full 1008 (effectively 1007) depth, we might at least be able to eliminate a few of the bits as dead ends.
Letter Series: w	Thu 09 Apr 2009 05:02
<gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 27 moves (old: 29). \
Camouflage	Thu 09 Apr 2009 04:56
<gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 138 moves (old: 148). qqqq
Camouflage	Thu 09 Apr 2009 04:55
<gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 138 moves (old: 140). q <gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 140 moves (old: 142). ` <gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 142 moves (old: 151). p
Camouflage	Thu 09 Apr 2009 04:48
<gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 148 moves (old: 149). qwerty
Newark Liberty Airport (EWR)	Thu 09 Apr 2009 04:01
<gary> I have solved it!
Optimization (462)	Tue 07 Apr 2009 16:59
<Suzy> I need a hint for this level. It's driving me crazy!
Expanding Star	Sat 04 Apr 2009 04:18
<gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 357 moves (old: 363). a
Jedi	Fri 03 Apr 2009 22:37
<gary> Exactly it is. <radiant> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 369 moves (old: 385). pieguy's revenge 3: Easy Mode?
Hiding Places	Fri 03 Apr 2009 15:08
<Bekah> (SPOILER) It's intended to be that way ;) <gary> (SPOILER) Cook: Didn't use all the gray blocks, or didn't use all the red steel blocks. <gary> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 3239 moves (old: 3995). blah
Memoryless Hole	Thu 02 Apr 2009 21:59
<radiant> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 231 moves (old: 256). Oh, of course it also works here.
Memoryless Hole (v1.2)	Thu 02 Apr 2009 21:47
<radiant> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 237 moves (old: 256). same as 1.1
Memoryless Hole (v1.1)	Thu 02 Apr 2009 21:47
<radiant> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 231 moves (old: 234). I just wonder what the "intended" way was for all these obsolete versions...
I Pity the Fool	Wed 01 Apr 2009 17:31
<radiant> There seems to be a small bug here: is there a reason the first 61 remotes in line take a very long time to flip their targets, while everything after that goes off almost instantly? <wowei> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 271 moves (old: 293). really a sad thing with those fools. Happy first of April.
Chromatic Crisis (v3)	Mon 30 Mar 2009 03:31
<radiant> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 873 moves (old: 1142). Version 4 shuts down this cook too, if anyone cares.
Chromatic Crisis (v4)	Sat 28 Mar 2009 11:52
<gary> ...and finally this level will not get cooked.
Chromatic Crisis (v3)	Fri 27 Mar 2009 17:50
<mm> Ooops, thanks, I was just going to write you that I'm sorry to have cooked it again... ;-)
Chromatic Crisis	Fri 27 Mar 2009 10:40
<noname> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 340 moves (old: 2163). Cooked.
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