Bricks (a puzzle game)

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:49 pm

Muzozavr wrote:HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO THAT WHAT THE HELL THIS IS THE HARDEST LEVEL IN BRICKS III AND THE HARDEST SLIDER PUZZLE EVER CREATED WHAT THE HELL ANDREAS IS EVIL WHAT THE HELL HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.

That's what you get for downloading Bricks III.

OMG, I gotta start playing Bricks I more. This is inspiring me.

P.S. Is there a level editor for this game? Or do I have to figure out clever tricks to do it?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:41 am

mqdar wrote:That's what you get for downloading Bricks III.

Exactly!

mqdar wrote:Is there a level editor for this game? Or do I have to figure out clever tricks to do it?

There was a level editor, but the interface is confusing at best. I totally can't get my head around how to do what.

Qloof234 · Post by **Qloof234** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:36 pm

Muzozavr wrote:HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO THAT WHAT THE HELL THIS IS THE HARDEST LEVEL IN BRICKS III AND THE HARDEST SLIDER PUZZLE EVER CREATED WHAT THE HELL ANDREAS IS EVIL WHAT THE HELL HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.

ShadowtheSpeediest · Post by **ShadowtheSpeediest** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:10 pm

Bricks is fun!

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:16 pm

Muzozavr wrote:
mqdar wrote:Is there a level editor for this game? Or do I have to figure out clever tricks to do it?
There was a level editor, but the interface is confusing at best. I totally can't get my head around how to do what.

Where can you get the editor? Is it not there anymore?

Well, let's see:
ANOTHER programming idea added to the list.

(I already have two many)

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:49 pm

http://www.bricks-game.de/emir/Klocki.htm
See if I am just too dumb to figure it out...

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:02 am

Muzozavr wrote:http://www.bricks-game.de/emir/Klocki.htm
See if I am just too dumb to figure it out...

Thanks!

I was looking on the Bricks site.

Here we go...

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:33 am

Woo! I did it!

Now I have to get some inspiration...

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:14 am

OMG please not right now. Bricks are enough trouble for me as they are.

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:53 pm

Muzozavr wrote:OMG please not right now. Bricks are enough trouble for me as they are.

Oh c'mon, I bet I suck at making Bricks puzzles.

Why don't I make some and post them? Don't expect anything hard. They'll be a breeze for you.

Not that I could do any better.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:52 am

Bump.
After being totally worn out by Bricks III, I returned to Bricks I, and lo and behold, I finally solved Einstein. FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY yippee!

Einstein was one of the neatest levels I've ever seen.

AJQZC · Post by **AJQZC** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:34 pm

Muzozavr wrote:Bump.
After being totally worn out by Bricks III, I returned to Bricks I, and lo and behold, I finally solved Einstein. FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY yippee!
Einstein was one of the neatest levels I've ever seen.

If I'm right, this puzzle is derived from "Hua Rong Dao" story in which Cao Cao managed to escape from Hua Rong Dao through the Shuhan army.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:34 pm

History:
The wooden layout is the one in "Forget-Me-Not" level. My trick won't work on the wooden original due to a subtle change in rules.

Klocki is a Polish name for the original puzzle. Klotski is Microsoft's version with the first 24 levels from Bricks I. It starts from "Daisy", but has an additional puzzle that was cut out from Bricks I due to difficulty. It was reintroduced as a competition puzzle.

The other Bricks levels feature special elements that make the game more interesting and difficult.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:55 am

Bump.

Have just broke 10K in Bricks III, thought I never would. My latest solved level is Soccer. Funny because it was actually really easy once I've found the right start.

To get Bricks IV, you need to break 30K in Bricks III, so of course I'm still working at it!!

P.S. To mqdar: tried the editor again, and I pretty much figured it out, but how do you change the board size? 5x5 is not enough.

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:17 pm

Muzozavr wrote:P.S. To mqdar: tried the editor again, and I pretty much figured it out, but how do you change the board size? 5x5 is not enough.

Just hover your mouse over the buttons. You'll eventually find the right ones. The only problem is, you can only make square levels, not rectangular ones.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:50 pm

No problem, frame off the unnecessary!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:44 am

14741 now. DAMN hard game. The progress is now slooooooooow...

With exception of Chromatron series, this has got to be the longest time I've ever spent on a puzzle game.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:19 am

15213 after solving "Ali Baba". WHAT WAS THAT?! HOW LOW OF A BLOW WAS THIS?!! FREAKING... MYSTERY ELEMENTS..

Alright, now that I've calmed down after a level six freakout, I'll explain: the title screen says "one level has an undocumented mystery element". Well, guess what? It's right here, in this level. There's one block that looks like a wall, but can be moved. And unless you discover it, the level can't be solved.

Freaked up game.

EDIT: 16945, solved "Bridge" and "Arrow". The former turned out to be relatively simple with me overlooking the most obvious thing in the world. The latter, however, was one heck of a puzzle. Good.

EDIT2: 17840 after solving "Random". Not as random as I thought it'd be, but still random enough to try and shove stuff around till it works.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Fri May 29, 2009 7:07 am

18740 after doing Rhea. I CAN'T BELIEVE I actually did solve that.

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Fri May 29, 2009 8:36 pm

You do realize you Q-posted, right?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:16 pm

Yes, yes... I do. In fact, that's why I didn't use EDIT that last time, to be able to claim that I've made a Q-post. These are rarities!

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:33 pm

Well, several people have D-posted when they first joined just to unlock BBCode.

(Or was it to accomplish something else?)

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:08 pm

After being totally, totally, TOTALLY worn out by Bricks III, I decided to revisit Bricks JR a few days ago and made quite a few move-opting improvements.

My current JR scoreboard:
1-10: Perfect!
11. HOUSE OF USHER (+2)
12. TETRIS TOWER (+4)
13. COMBINATION (+1)
14-20: Perfect!
21. FUNNY BLOCKS (+1)
22-23: Perfect!
24. RIVER (+5)
25-26: Perfect!
27. CHEOPS (+1)
28. RODS (+2)
29-30: Perfect!
31. MIROGLU (+2)
32. ATTRACTION (+5)
33-40: Perfect!
41. MIRROR IMAGE (+4)
42: Perfect!
43. PHONECALL (+6)
44. CLOSET (+8)
45. FISHY (+3)
46: Perfect!
47. LITTLE RIDDLE (+4)
48. CHECK AND MATE (+5)

2+4+1+1+5+1+2+2+5+4+6+8+3+5+5=53 steps. Some room for improvement here, don't ya think?!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:31 pm

EPIC BUMP
I decided to revisit Bricks III. I had some more progress before... but today I actually solved two levels (PHOBOS and TWIG) and now my score is 20259... which means I broke 20K, which means my rating is now "ADVANCED". Yay for me!

How much more do I have to get to end up at "MASTER"? I'll have to look it up to see...

EDIT: Jesus Chirst on a bicycle, I need to break 35000?! That's like EVIL, lol.

EDIT 2: Wait, no. Turns out the next game requires "Experienced" and not "Master". So I need to break "only" 30000. Still evil, but not as much.

Nobody · Post by **Nobody** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:04 pm

Emerald141 wrote:Well, several people have D-posted when they first joined just to unlock BBCode.
(Or was it to accomplish something else?)

They can use BBCode whenever. They probably wanted to be able to post attatchments.

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:19 pm

By D-posting I meant Deca-, not Double. Also I was relatively new to the forum then, so I didn't know what I was talking about. *shrugs*

Strangely, I couldn't get an avatar until I reached 10...

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:16 am

Emerald141 wrote:By D-posting I meant Deca-, not Double. Also I was relatively new to the forum then, so I didn't know what I was talking about. *shrugs*

Strangely, I couldn't get an avatar until I reached 10...

Reason was that it's supposed to disable links and maybe (I'm not sure) attachments, but the system is very paranoid and often disallows things that are not links nor attachments. A random word or smiley, if similar enough, can cause the system to reject the post outright. It stops checking you after you get 10 posts, so people were deca-posting in the meet and greet section.

Qloof234 · Post by **Qloof234** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:31 am

Muzozavr wrote:Jesus Chirst on a bicycle

Am I the only one who burst into a laughing fit upon reading this?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:31 pm

Qloof234 wrote:
Muzozavr wrote:Jesus Chirst on a bicycle
Am I the only one who burst into a laughing fit upon reading this?

Not my phrase unfortunately. First saw it in a YouTube comment to mrmidas2k's no-ring run of the Sonic 1 and Knuckles hack.

The whole phrase was like: "Jesus Christ on a bicycle. That looked hard."

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:51 pm

21080. "PETER" solved.

God, how could you possibly make this game even harder?!

(Bricks IV will show me exactly how.

)