TTTPPP's Puzzles

[TTTPPP]

A list of the puzzles I've made:

Title	Level	Solution	Notes
The Doubling Chamber	pagoxet	cixybax	Fairly easy
Most Significant Bewilderment Level 1	himaxot	talyfyb	Hard*
Most Significant Bewilderment Level 2	gipygux	No solution yet	Possibly impossible*
Most Significant Bewilderment Level 3	zotakuv	No solution yet	Probably impossible*
Much Ado About Nothing (Original - MAAN5)	vivevop	No solution yet	Very hard/Impossible?
Much Ado About Nothing 17 (MAAN17)	bipugef	xaxibam	Fairly easy
Much Ado About Nothing 16 (MAAN16)	remaxus	dyxumub	Moderate
Much Ado About Nothing 9 (MAAN9)	sydagac	dopysov	Medium - Solution by Rene
Nudge Nudge	pibanyd	noribyn	Easy/Medium
Waiting for a fad to pass	nylabuv	votagov	Hard
Dozer Overtime	hihuteb	ceculok	Hard
Under and Over 1	rodakax	behevin	Fairly easy - Solution by jnz
Under and Over 2	zykybym	cobytep	Moderate - Solution by Sly
Under and Over 3	sumigut	dotugod	Medium
Rubik's-on	bagabug	kyrunad	Hard - Solution by jnz

*Note that for the three "Most Significant Bewilderment" puzzles you are not meant to be able to put pieces into the mechanism (eg. dropping an initial barrel down to get a 1 crate out).  I only remembered to prevent this in the third level.

Enjoy! 

[Rene]

For The Doubling Chamber (pagoxet): tunupyv

I like the art work!

[jf]

For the Doubling Chamber: dinysuk. Rene's tunupyv is impressive for its simplicity.

[TTTPPP]

I wish there was a slow motion button so I could see how Rene's solution works!  I'll just think of it as magic.

JF's is also far simpler than my solution, and I love the use of 1-1+1 = 1, 2-2+2 = 2, etc.

[TTTPPP]

New puzzle - Much Ado About Nothing vivevop.

I think this is quite an obvious idea for a puzzle, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's been a similar one before.  So far I've got a solution which works about 66% of the time padigyk, and can in theory solve Much Ado About Nothing 16 - the same thing with 16 ? crates (i.e. the main puzzle is Much Ado About Nothing 5).

Can anyone manage a partial solution better than this, or a solution for Much Ado About Nothing 15, 14, etc.

[TTTPPP]

New puzzle: Nudge Nudge pibanyd - Solution noribyn

I was trying to make a much harder puzzle, but came across this as a sub-puzzle of it!  I'm not even sure the harder puzzle was possible though!

[hatkirby]

Solution to Nudge Nudge by yours truly!

Nudge Back - zutyzek

[Rene]

For Nudge Nudge (pibanyd): docilin

I am still working on Most Significant Bewilderment Level 1. That one is possible but hard. I have done the math, and now need to do the implementation work.
Most Significant Bewilderment Level 3 is theoretically possible, but I do not think there is enough space to make the solution. Even the math was very hard to figure out.

For Much Ado About Nothing: there have been similar puzzles. For example,
- use 0, 1, 3, and 9 to match a random crate - dubynod)
- use three random crates between 0-5 to make a 0 - cannot find that one anymore
But I haven't seen this one before. I think it should be theoretically possible with 4 random crates to always make a 0, but I didn't come any further than you did at the moment. Use zeros directly, and subtract duplicates from each other

[TTTPPP]

It's not possible to solve Much Ado About Nothing 4, as you may be given the crates 1,2,4 and 8.  I've come up with improvements on my previous method, but haven't yet been able to implement them.  It would solve MAAN9.

[jnz]

For Nudge Nudge (pibanyd): binumir

For Much Ado About Nothing: there have been similar puzzles. For example,
- use 1, 3, 5, and 9 to match a random crate - dubynod)
- use three random crates between 0-5 to make a 0 - cannot find that one anymore

It was Mod 5 by lopsidation. 
Thread: http://kevan.org/rubicon/forums/index.php/topic,109.0.html
Mod 5 (fixed): xynorud
My solution: dyralum
Handi's solution: pumonos
jf's solution: zedagyx

[Rene]

And finally, my solution to Most Significant Bewilderment Level 1 (himaxot): varobol

Still looking at 2 and 3, but I am afraid they are probably not possible.

[TTTPPP]

New Puzzle:

Waiting for a fad to pass nylabuv (solution votagov).

[jnz]

For "Waiting for a fad to pass" (nylabuv): gogoxyr.  That was tricky.  I don't think I've seen a puzzle like that before.

[TTTPPP]

Good solution jnz!  I was hoping there'd be some different ways of solving it, but I could only find mine.  I'm guessing the longest running solution in the space given is by changing the +++++ in jnz's solution to +-+++.  Then it even solves "02C"!  The aim of the puzzle was really to see how long something could be made to run in the space, so if you move the 1 crate about to form a different solution I'd still be interested to see it!

[jnz]

The aim of the puzzle was really to see how long something could be made to run in the space

Ok, how about pocubeg?  Solves "8E8"