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The Wheels on the Bus go... Thu 25 Nov 2010 17:28
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 205 moves (old: 221).
 
testing comments... Thu 25 Nov 2010 17:00
<Dave> '''""" They are working again! I play on three different machines and when it works it works on all three and when it fails it fails on all three. ??
 
Botkoban 2 Thu 25 Nov 2010 16:52
<Dave> (SPOILER) Hats off to anyone who solved this by hand. I have to confess that I gave up and solved it by computer having tested the program out on Botkoban 3 first. As an optimisation exercise I found it nowhere near as difficult as Revenge 5 which took about 3 hours of runtime rather than a few seconds.

In both cases I did use a hash table to record visited positions with minimum step count. You could get probably away without it here as there were just over 1000 entries when I re-ran it with a 71 move limit imposed. That would still require quite a lot of paper if working this out by hand! I may try it by hand using noname's tip but that's for another day when I have a lot of time on my hands...

 
testing comments... Thu 25 Nov 2010 16:37
<N7DOT 3> Moved to graveyard:
done.
<N7DOT 3> Just testin' seeing if it will work, timeto see is Dave's right about this "problem".
<N7DOT 3> 'testing comments...' uploaded by N7DOT 3:
I'm testing Dave's comment where he "cant use apostrophes or speech marks. So I'm testing to see if this is true for me. I also actually tried to make this a level so it isn't too bland.
 
sauver ses pions Thu 25 Nov 2010 02:51
<Jim> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 168 moves (old: 170).
 
Botkoban 3 Wed 24 Nov 2010 23:08
<Dave> (SPOILER) Solved by computer. With my programming skills it would probably have been quicker the long way! No idea if 29 is really optimal as the program terminated on the first solution found (identical to the speedrun by Adam). Toms original is different from move 3 but converges to the same ending, so I suspect there may be more.
 
poss ible 2 Wed 24 Nov 2010 18:20
<wowei> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 313 moves (old: 402).
 
The Wheels on the Bus go... Wed 24 Nov 2010 18:19
<wowei> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 221 moves (old: 307).
 
Pipe Bender Wed 24 Nov 2010 15:00
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 177 moves (old: 183).
 
Simpleball Wed 24 Nov 2010 06:42
<Tom 7> (admin) Automatically moved to minor leagues.
(Difficulty: 1.3 Style: 1.5)
 
petit dalek bis Wed 24 Nov 2010 06:42
<Tom 7> (admin) Automatically moved to minor leagues.
(Difficulty: 2.0 Style: 1.8)
 
biloute a zailes Wed 24 Nov 2010 06:42
<Tom 7> (admin) Automatically moved to minor leagues.
(Difficulty: 1.3 Style: 1.6)
 
Sac de bille Wed 24 Nov 2010 06:42
<Tom 7> (admin) Automatically moved to minor leagues.
(Difficulty: 1.6 Style: 1.6)
 
panneaux Wed 24 Nov 2010 06:42
<Tom 7> (admin) Automatically moved to minor leagues.
(Difficulty: 1.8 Style: 2.0)
 
pas toujours la Wed 24 Nov 2010 03:37
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 249 moves (old: 259).
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 259 moves (old: 260).
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 260 moves (old: 266).
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 266 moves (old: 291).
<biloute> 'pas toujours la' uploaded by biloute.
 
The Wheels on the Bus go... Tue 23 Nov 2010 21:05
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 307 moves (old: 341).
 
Cheers to escape !! Tue 23 Nov 2010 20:43
<Dave> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 447 moves (old: 460).
 
The Wheels on the Bus go... Tue 23 Nov 2010 19:32
<N7DOT 2> 'The Wheels on the Bus go...' uploaded by N7DOT 2:
The wall in the middle is spinning, At speed of one revolution in approx. 16 moves.

Here are two cipher texts enciphered by the same cipher (it's a substitution cipher I made up, and the alphabet is different in each one):

#1:HIIRSRMSTTHIEESHEIHISRDHIGTTHI

#2:AGGDUUGMTHMDOSEOMLUSOMUAMOMG

They should be really hard to crack, if not impossible (I don't even know how to crack or even decode it, all I know is how to use it. I'm not a cryptanalyst though, but I might be able to crack simple substitution ciphers).

Enjoy.
 
poss ible 2 Tue 23 Nov 2010 17:56
<Dave> 'poss ible 2' uploaded by Dave:
Still not very difficult, but why not?
 
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