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"Needle or a Haystack" by Max

added 31 Dec 1969 19:00
Solved28/28
Cooked7/28
Difficulty2.92
Style4.03
Rigidity4.53
Shortest Solution
NameUntitled
Length59 moves
ByMax
On30 Mar 2005 09:44

Comments (turn spoilers off)
10608 Needle or a Haystack gary (1600) Sat 12 Apr 2008 05:22 SPOILER
  Cook: Didn't use the blue light.
 
3992 Needle or a Haystack Feanor (531) Fri 19 Aug 2005 15:55  
  Ha Ha Ha Ha, good one Max!
 
881 Needle or a Haystack Max (61) Wed 30 Mar 2005 09:44 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 59 moves (old: 999999).
 
706 Needle or a Haystack Max (61) Wed 23 Mar 2005 19:47 SPOILER
  Okay, I'll just leave it be then, because that's a battle I won't win!
 
700 Needle or a Haystack Tom 7 (1) Wed 23 Mar 2005 13:51 SPOILER
  But it is a cute idea. (Ha!)
 
699 Needle or a Haystack Tom 7 (1) Wed 23 Mar 2005 13:51 SPOILER
  Yeah, the preview window used to not show as much of the level, so it wasn't as obvious that you could go around.

To whatever extent this level is successful, Escape is sort of a failure because it doesn't indicate well the size of the level, and so it may be a battle between you and me if you try to 'improve' this one. I certainly intend to make the yellow scroll arrows a bit more prominent.
 
697 Needle or a Haystack Max (61) Wed 23 Mar 2005 13:10 SPOILER
  Yeah, it's kind of lame since it isn't very wide, but at the time that was the widest you could make levels. Maybe I'll make a wider version for the sake of completeness...
 
696 Needle or a Haystack Doom (371) Wed 23 Mar 2005 11:14 SPOILER
  Wait... Now I get it! That is the intended solution. That's pretty clever, I guess :) I didn't even notice the idea at first.
 
657 Needle or a Haystack Doom (371) Tue 22 Mar 2005 14:53 SPOILER
  Cook: It's possible to move something from the upper side into the button on the lower side and exit easily.
 
46 Needle or a Haystack Max (61) Wed 21 Jul 2004 20:55  
  Sigh...
 
40 Needle or a Haystack Tom 7 (1) Wed 21 Jul 2004 17:38 SPOILER
  They yellow arrow gives it away anyway. ;) Anyway I intend to give even better graphical cues to scrollability, so that will probably make this one moot. Cute idea, though.
 
38 Needle or a Haystack Max (61) Fri 16 Jul 2004 15:16 SPOILER
  This one probably would have been a little cooler if I made it wide enough so that the preview didn't reveal the entire level... Oh well.