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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Jul 4^th, 2007, 11:33pm)

Title: blocks and stars
Post by Noke Lieu on Jul 4^th, 2007, 11:33pm

Very busy. Much more than I deserve.

In weaker moments, I found these two games tucked away. Quite nice.

www dot addictinggames dot com slash bloxors dot html

and

www dot addictinggames dot com slash starshine dot html

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by towr on Jul 4^th, 2007, 11:49pm

Hmm, the OCf server's new firewall seems a bit oevrzealous; can't even link to a few innocent little puzzle games without problems.

The first one's fun, I haven't tried the second yet..

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by Roy_2 on Aug 28^th, 2007, 12:24am

Yes, it doesn't like addicting games very much, as with the impossible quiz

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by Noke Lieu on Sep 25^th, 2007, 12:30am

and one more, just before I go home.

www. addictinggames. com/hexiom.html

most levels take about 2 minutes, but occassionally I stumble and can take *ahem* a few more.

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 25^th, 2007, 1:43am

OMG, I can't get past level 29 for hexiom. It's taking me an 45 minutes to get there and I've spent the last 15 trying to beat it. Nice game.

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by SMQ on Sep 25^th, 2007, 7:57am

That's definitely a devious one. A hint: [hide]the solution (including the empty hexes) has more than one axis of symmetry[/hide].

--SMQ

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 25^th, 2007, 8:11pm

I'm still confused for a solution even after this clue. Hmm... :-/

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by Noke Lieu on Sep 25^th, 2007, 9:21pm

and slowly, like grains of sand, the seconds of your life will slip away....

([hide]don't put the sixes together[/hide])

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by Michael_Dagg on Sep 25^th, 2007, 9:41pm

I read this problem previously and thought you had
might abstracted it as a constellation matching problem
but seeing now it could be done as such.

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 26^th, 2007, 5:43am

on 09/25/07 at 21:21:05, Noke Lieu wrote:

and slowly, like grains of sand, the seconds of your life will slip away....

([hide]don't put the sixes together[/hide])

That helps. I kept putting them together and I was able to get 1 or 2 pieces not getting the right number together. Thanks guys, I'll try tomorrow. Hopefully I can complete it. I spent another 30 minutes on it today :-[

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by rmsgrey on Sep 26^th, 2007, 8:51am

on 09/25/07 at 00:30:57, Noke Lieu wrote:

and one more, just before I go home.

www. addictinggames. com/hexiom.html

most levels take about 2 minutes, but occassionally I stumble and can take *ahem* a few more.

I was doing okay until my browser crashed in the low 20s somewhere...

Intuitively, I feel that figuring out some sort of dual would help with a number of the puzzles...

Title: Re: blocks and stars
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 27^th, 2007, 1:36am

YES. Completed it. Thanks for the clues, it was a deceptive puzzle. Now only another 7 left until I finish ;D :D :o