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"Not Enough Block Shortage" by John Lewis (original by Henri K.)

added 24 Mar 2007 14:00
Solved8/9
Cooked0/9
Difficulty5.88
Style6.66
Rigidity6.44
Shortest Solution
NameSpeed Record
Length509 moves
ByDave
On18 Dec 2011 14:31

Comments (turn spoilers off)
15976 Not Enough Block Shortage Dave (2400) Sun 18 Dec 2011 14:31 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 509 moves (old: 517).
 
8008 Not Enough Block Shortage noname (559) Mon 04 Jun 2007 08:53 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 517 moves (old: 530).
 
7765 Not Enough Block Shortage John Lewis (411) Sat 24 Mar 2007 17:50 SPOILER
  Is that so?

In that case, if it's so boring, why were only four people able to solve the level and rate it when I originally uploaded it? (me, apparently you, Kirima, and one other person) If only two people besides the two of us were able to find it, I can only conclude that a cook like this takes skill and effort to locate. Besides, I wasn't even the one who originally discovered the cook - Eric did. Are you trying to say that his efforts in locating it and sharing it with everyone are utterly pointless? Is the cook so obvious that it marches up in a bright pink outfit to everyone playing the level and says, "I'm a cook! Find me and exploit me!"?

I can also conclude that if you completely loathe this level and give it such abysmal ratings, that you must be the one also giving disgraceful, low style ratings to the other recent levels I've uploaded, which I spent quite a considerable amount of time creating. May I ask why? May I ask what constitutes a level that you would give a style rating of "9" or "10" to? Have you ever even given such a rating to any level here at ALL? If you rate your own levels, what kinds of ratings do you give to them?

And must I ask why you gave this level a difficulty rating of 3? Sure, it may not be as involved in execution as the original, intended solution (I would difficulty-rate Kirima's level higher myself), but is the solution here *that* easy to locate? If it is, why didn't more people solve it when I originally uploaded it? Let's take the levels you've uploaded that share that same difficulty rating: there have been 9, 10, 10, 10, and 12 people who have solved them, respectively. Why do you think there were so many people who were able to beat those levels? Because they weren't very difficult. Because the solutions weren't as concealed and difficult to find.

Need I even go further?

:/
 
7764 Not Enough Block Shortage wowei (685) Sat 24 Mar 2007 17:36 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 530 moves (old: 534).
 
7763 Not Enough Block Shortage wowei (685) Sat 24 Mar 2007 16:55  
  sorry, JL, no style-points again.

i dont get it, why you wanna take a pretty fine level and make a boring cook the only solution.
 
7762 Not Enough Block Shortage John Lewis (411) Sat 24 Mar 2007 14:00  
  'Not Enough Block Shortage' uploaded by John Lewis:
Hopefully this should work. Not as clever as the original solution, but it's a great cook!