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"Hard IQ Carrier" by LIL Gil and John Polhemus

added 12 Feb 2005 19:23
Solved13/14
Cooked0/14
Difficulty4.42
Style2.50
Rigidity3.71
Shortest Solution
NameSpeed Record
Length4675 moves
Bynoname
On04 Jun 2007 09:19

Comments (turn spoilers off)
8017 Hard IQ Carrier noname (559) Mon 04 Jun 2007 09:19 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 4675 moves (old: 4837).
 
7163 Hard IQ Carrier Eric119 (921) Sat 28 Oct 2006 14:20 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 4837 moves (old: 4897).
Make the obvious improvement of not using the last block.
 
6539 Hard IQ Carrier Eric119 (921) Sat 01 Jul 2006 13:48 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 4897 moves (old: 4929).
Copied John Lewis's run from Harder IQ Carrier.
 
3545 Hard IQ Carrier John Lewis (411) Wed 13 Jul 2005 20:20 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 4929 moves (old: 5301).
 
2391 Hard IQ Carrier bpotetz (144) Sat 07 May 2005 02:21 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 5301 moves (old: 5447).
 
1092 Hard IQ Carrier Tom 7 (1) Wed 30 Mar 2005 14:46 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 5447 moves (old: 999999).
Testing long solutions
 
301 Hard IQ Carrier Tom 7 (1) Tue 15 Feb 2005 14:27  
  As near as I can tell, this level was made as a sort of fan tribute to a handheld radio shack sokoban game called IQ Carrier. Since John Polhemus submitted it to another free Sokoban program, I'm assuming that he's okay with it being in the Escape collection.

I'm perfectly happy to have Sokoban-style levels in Escape (Joshua Bone's levels are really great, for instance), but of course I can't permit copyrighted levels from other games to be used. Unless it's really obviously a copy, I'll leave them until someone complains. Anyway, it's better if the levels are original compositions, don't you think?
 
298 Hard IQ Carrier bpotetz (144) Tue 15 Feb 2005 14:04  
  I agree, Max. This level was a snooze. Don't attempt this level unless you've got something else going on to amuse yourself. Maybe books on tape.

Anyway, I was also wondering - what the hell is "IQ Carrier" supposed to mean, anyway? A quick google search reveals that IQ Carrier is a collection of Sokoban levels that were removed from the macintosh shareware distribution because "they are evidently still sold commercially in Japan". Better start working on your defense, Tom. Interestingly, the original level this was based on seems to more closely resemble Tom's version, where each block is needed. (See:
www.sourcecode.se/sokoban/levtext.php?file=TitleScreens.slc
)

Unfortunately, I still have no idea what "IQ carrier" means. Maybe you have to be Japanese.
 
295 Hard IQ Carrier Max (61) Tue 15 Feb 2005 00:09  
  Man, what an obnoxious level!! A better title would be "Patience Carrier," since all it really took was the determination to push blocks around for over 5000 (!!!!) moves.
 
291 Hard IQ Carrier Tom 7 (1) Mon 14 Feb 2005 18:41  
  5543 moves!

There are some good parts, but too many errands for my tastes. Too cruel!
 
287 Hard IQ Carrier Tom 7 (1) Sun 13 Feb 2005 19:50  
  Now I am worried. ;)