No.

OK, I've caught you up....... for now............


Sunsoft 4: Train your body

12 builders, 5 bashers, 3 diggers

Save 100% of 10
Release rate 1
5 minutes

Good: a nice tricky level that requires you to make optimum use of your builders
Bad: no real puzzle to it. And why are there five bashers?

Bh2 x g3

Yeah, sorry about that.

Bf3 x d1

Heh, I didn't notice that either.........

OK, here's my last contribution. I'm going to have to drop out now because Present 30 has so far proved to be way beyond my meagre solving skills. (Though if you could save "Exodus" for me......)


Present 28: Which one are you trying to get?

1 climber, 10 floaters, 2 bombers, 1 blocker, 4 builders, 3 bashers, 1 miner, 3 diggers

To save 100% of 30
Release rate 99
4 minutes

Good: an utterly manic level -- it's taken a long time but the Present levels have got difficult at last!
Bad: surely there must be scores of backroutes exploiting the falling directly in to the exit trick?

Typically, the solution I found was monstrously complex, and it did require the falling directly into the exit trick, but it hardly counts as a backroute, since I needed nearly all the skills.....

First lemming on left climbs, and digs the ledge on the other side of the ball. Build over the first gap (starting a bit back so that the last brick doesn't quite close the gap), bash through the middle ball, build under the platform on the right. Dig just left of the exit so that lemmings falling down the right edge of the dig pit will go straight in. Build against the spike to turn round into the exit.

Release the right lemmings by digging a couple of pixels with a left-facing lemming then bashing; the middle lemmings by mining to the right; the left lemmings by bashing right and making them all floaters. This solution requires all the skills except three floaters, the bombers and blocker.

OK, I've tried the OWW solution for Present 24 and it actually does work, slightly differently from how I suggested.

Top-left lemming builds across the gap. Bottom lemming bashes the ball then digs the platform. Top-right lemming builds across the water. Now, top-left lemming would reach him before he finishes, so he must build too; you can kill two birds with one stone by putting this bridge at the edge of the block, where it will stop the climber later on. Bottom lemming climbs, builds to turn round against the metal, climbs up to OWW. Other two lemmings come through first and use digging skills to reach exit.

I don't really have anything interesting to say about Present 27, so can someone else do that and I'll take 28?

Let's be clear, by backroutes I mean solutions that are _easier_ than the intended solution. That rules out Postcard and It's hero time -- though what the hell is the third solution to Postcard?

I'm trying to base this on solutions that will work in any version of the game (except the Genesis levels, which are of course unique to that version), but if when you've solved my altered levels you happen to know that my solution won't work in a particular version, please tell me!

(I've already taken Compression Method One off the list for this reason.)