#SPACECHEM IT TAKES THREE FREE#

#SPACECHEM IT TAKES THREE FREE#

Feel free to show it in-thread for us to admire, but for the purposes of the competition, we are not relying on a feature that's hard to reproduce. If your solution requires specific bonders to be in specific spots, then it's disqualified. The short version: I should be able to copy your puzzle and get it to work. This is make-or-break, really.Īnd some rules for entrants. If you're the first one to use any nonstandard reactor features (anything more than bonders), then include a brief explanation of the mechanic in your puzzle description. You can create a reactor with fusion, fission, and tunnel, but again. (However, those solutions are optimal based on the symbols the game allows you to use at that point in the game, so if you think the world 1 puzzles are enhanced by the availability of sensors and flip-flops, then go for it.) SolutionNet has optimal solutions published for all the story missions. Single-reactor puzzles are preferred, too, not least because multireactor puzzles are much more difficult to screenshot. Even the very first puzzle in Spacechem offers some interesting optimization problems, and a low barrier to entry ensures that players of all skill levels can participate. Ideally, your puzzle should not be hard to solve. Some guidelines for puzzlemasters - these are not rules, but they are good ideas: If the puzzlemaster feels especially diligent, he might show a video of the various solutions. Minimally, the puzzlemaster will show the best solution, but it's also nice if any particularly interesting solutions get pointed out. Ideally, this should happen before the next puzzle goes up, but we're all busy.

The puzzlemaster collects the results.

You can resubmit if you come up with a better solution before time's up. Your submission should include a picture of your solution as well as the number of cycles and symbols it took. Once a puzzle has been posted, you have 10 days to submit an 'official' answer to the puzzlemaster. (In either case, the other one is the tiebreaker.)

The puzzlemaster describes the parameters of the puzzle and mention whether we're competing for fewest cycles or fewest symbols. don't make me the only puzzlemaster forever _

There's no need to sign up to participate, but if you want to design a puzzle, then say so in-thread. Spacechem fever has hit the forums once again, so let's engage in some friendly competition.

Spacechem it takes three