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"Around the Block" by Joshua Bone

added 06 Feb 2005 19:25
Solved20/20
Cooked0/20
Difficulty5.80
Style5.55
Rigidity6.70
Shortest Solution
NameSpeedrun
Length970 moves
ByJohn Lewis
On14 Mar 2007 13:32

Comments (turn spoilers off)
9734 Around the Block Kacper (1639) Fri 28 Dec 2007 09:47 SPOILER
  The first part is what caused me the problem and the second part also because I didn't see the spot for a block at the top.So after you get the first part there will be no problem passing the rest.
 
7715 Around the Block John Lewis (411) Wed 14 Mar 2007 13:32 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 970 moves (old: 1004).
Hoping this is it...
 
2679 Around the Block John Lewis (411) Tue 24 May 2005 20:28 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 1004 moves (old: 1098).
I want the speed record to be under 1000!!
 
2646 Around the Block John Lewis (411) Sat 21 May 2005 22:45 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 1098 moves (old: 1142).
 
2373 Around the Block bpotetz (144) Sat 07 May 2005 02:08 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 1142 moves (old: 1192).
 
2092 Around the Block Joshua Bone (257) Fri 22 Apr 2005 16:25  
  Quite right. I've tried to do mods of some of my other Chip's Challenge levels, but the game concepts are just too incompatible. Glad someone noticed!
 
2087 Around the Block John Lewis (411) Fri 22 Apr 2005 12:05  
  A bit of trivia: Joshua Bone designed a Chip's Challenge level called "Construction Zone" that became the basis for this. The block puzzles are exactly the same.
 
818 Around the Block Joshua Bone (257) Tue 29 Mar 2005 22:38 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 1192 moves (old: 999999).
 
280 Around the Block Tom 7 (1) Wed 09 Feb 2005 00:03  
  The only other one I can think of is pressing ctrl-0 from the level load screen, which will search your player file (potetz.esp) for solutions for any unsolved levels in that directory. This is good if you made a minor tweak to a level and don't want to re-solve it.
 
278 Around the Block bpotetz (144) Tue 08 Feb 2005 21:12  
  Damn! Any other cool undocumented features you want to share with us, Tom?
 
277 Around the Block Tom 7 (1) Tue 08 Feb 2005 20:42  
  Try 's' and 'r'.
 
276 Around the Block bpotetz (144) Tue 08 Feb 2005 20:36  
  I don't get it. What are you winking about?
 
274 Around the Block Tom 7 (1) Tue 08 Feb 2005 20:26  
  Who says there isn't a save state feature already? ;)
 
273 Around the Block bpotetz (144) Tue 08 Feb 2005 20:25  
  Thanks for putting the harder sub-puzzles first! Top-left was definately the best. Maybe if we keep submitting these epic levels it will force Tom to implement an undo stack or save-state feature. That was 1142 for me (it can get tighter, though).
 
260 Around the Block Max (61) Tue 08 Feb 2005 10:19  
  Yeah, mine was 1404...
 
258 Around the Block Tom 7 (1) Tue 08 Feb 2005 01:15  
  PS. 1486 moves! Only Industrial Action and Reflections took me more. (And I think my solution was fairly tight to this one...)
 
257 Around the Block Tom 7 (1) Tue 08 Feb 2005 01:11  
  Man, sokoban is hard. Especially that top left one!! Nice level.