[SPOILERS] Novice's nominal nonchalance

[novice]

Jahooma's level 12 is driving me crazy.

Anyone got a perfect score for level 19?

I finished all the levels but I didn't bother to go back and try for perfect scores.

[pindicator]

Jahooma's level 12 is driving me crazy.

Anyone got a perfect score for level 19?

12 was a little ridiculous. It gave me full score for boxes but 9 out of 10 for steps, and I don't want to go back and perfect that one...

[novice]

I made do with 8 boxes:



I optimized it down from 10 boxes, which also gave full score for boxes. Interestingly, this added one (1) extra step. So apparently there's a solution that uses more boxes but saves steps.

My solution:

[zakalwe]

Optimizing for perfect scores was somewhat interesting for some of the levels. (I.e., some cute trick was required to save a box or two.)

My problem with level 12 is to cram in all the required boxes. It would be trivially easy if only the board was bigger. So I guess more cute tricks are in order. EDIT: Clearly, there's another algorithm that I'm missing. Hmmmm.

On my first couple of stabs I was able to get a pretty good score for either boxes or steps on level 19, but not both. So that seems like a nice challenge, assuming it's possible.

[novice]

My problem with level 12 is to cram in all the required boxes. It would be trivially easy if only the board was bigger. So I guess more cute tricks are in order. EDIT: Clearly, there's another algorithm that I'm missing. Hmmmm.

At any rate I don't think you can go above 10 boxes on level 12 without losing score for boxes.

Apparently, this game teaches parallellization too. I tried to optimize my level 12 solution for steps, but apparently redirects aren't counted as steps, so my solution just used more boxes for the same number of steps.

Parallellized solution:

[Ichabod]

Like I've said, I loved the game, but I'm yet to finish it. I got a perfect score on level 12:



I've yet to make 2 levels, the first 17 I've made with perfect scores. But, even though I've made a perfect score on lvl 17, I still can't understand recursion. That one was more of a guessing thing rather than logical thought. I'll have to try and understand it later, I was too tired when i finished the level for the first time.

Level 14 and level 10 were awesome to make. My first solution to level 14 used almost the full grid with boxes until I realized that I was doing all the needed work twice. But I was very happy when I found the first soluton (it was something like 1 and 1 in the scores :P) and it was easy to optimize it from there.

[zakalwe]

Yeah, level 12 wasn't so hard once I realized I was on the wrong track.

I got a perfect score with my first working version. Now I just need a perfect score on level 19...

[pindicator]

I finally beat 19, but i got a 1/10 in steps and 2/10 in boxes. I'm guessing there's a recursion-based solution that i didn't go for

[zakalwe]

Here is the idea I was pursuing on level 12 when I kept running out of space:

The pictured solution is A LOT more efficient in terms of steps. (Linear instead of quadratic.) Unfortunately, it only computes MOD 8, not MOD 10, due to space limitations.

[pling]

The ones I haven't perfect-ed are 10, 12 & 19 ... and in each case I can't find any more boxes to get rid of which I think means I need to rip it out entirely & start again to get anything better I find it hard to do that without falling into the trap of thinking exactly the same thing all over again, so I'm leaving it for a bit to try & forget how I did it the first time