... unless there are other procrastinators like me.

There are  . Just handed in my answers.

As Akseli suggested, here are the arguments for giving my votes. Note that I rated the levels compared to each other. So a low number does not mean, that I disliked the level, but just that I liked the others more.

16 x 16 / Planet Dulux
appearance: 10 (as already mentioned above: very clever ornaments around the level)
Fun: 9 (wide variety of skills makes for huge amount of possible approaches)
orig: 6 (the solutions to the two levels are too similar)

Amethyst Nightmare Shrine / Temple to the Frog Gods
appearance: 5 (mostly because I simply don't like pink, but as well because of certain asymmetries in the terrain)
Fun: 6 (well, the lixes certainly had much fun with being flung around, but they never landed where they should )
orig: 8 (without knowing the solution to Nightmare Shrine this is really hard to evaluate)

Cirque Du Solix / Cirque Du Solix (part 2)
appearance: 3 (there is simply no harmony between the different parts of the level. It feels like that functionality had a much higher priority than appearance here)
Fun: 4 (somewhat too easy and straight-forward for my taste)
orig: 6 (different solutions, but both are not really something special)

Eyesis (Part I) / Eyesis (Part II)
appearance: 5 (Not much decoration and a few terrain pieces were off by one pixel)
Fun: 3 (time limit ; needs some fiddling around to make the correct approach work)
orig: 8 (solution of Part II is not terribly interesting, but certainly completely different from Part I)
Author: Hard, technical and need of precise placements of skills and lixes - that reminded me of some levels in Akseli's first level pack. And I don't remember Akseli complaining much about time limits. True, the terrain design resembled more geoo's ones, but I already had matched geoo with Planet Dulux/16x16.

The Climber Predicament / The Floater Predicament
appearance: 7 (looks better from the preview screen than while playing)
Fun: 8 (some clever thinking needed here)
orig: 3 (the very same, nevertheless interesting, solution works for both levels. So a deduction was due to not properly fitting the design rules of the contest)

@Akseli: Where do you see the three cracks in Lixtown. There is certainly one at the lower right corner of the house, which was unfortunately necessary, but could you please point out what you consider the other two cracks?
And my comment was not meant as a red herring - I honestly wanted to give people more time to solve (your level) Eyesis and perhaps get some solutions to my update as well...

Not really a bug, but just to notify you about the following behaviour of miners and one-way-walls: When mining in the wrong direction of a one-way-wall at a slight increase, the lemming moves for one frame one pixel into terrain. Under very specific circumstances, this can be exploited: The solution to the attached level requires abusing this behaviour.
I am using V1.30A for both the editor and the player.

And I could create ten new accounts myself and let them vote for my own level .

... obviously I can't really "give myself" $10; I get to pick the contest rules anyway ...

But you can prevent having to give $10 to someone else . And up to now, you picked the contest rules, that people showed the most interest in. So theoretically you could use this prize to choose an otherwise absolutely unpopular topic without making others mad at you...

So, in a way, it's kind of so that two people (or however many) still get prizes, I guess?

No, prizes should go to the most popular levels. So if you get one of the prizes yourself, this should be seen by others as an incentive to learn what made your level better and then try harder next time. And the prizes don't seem to be very important to people here anyway.

Alright so, given the relative lack of interest in this contest - which may just be the format, mind you - I've thought about revising how closing entries should work for future contests.

In my case, it is purely the time frame that prevents me from participating. As mentioned before, I simply don't want to destroy another ones efforts, because I didn't find the time to create a proper level and therefore had to hand in some mediocre terrain/objects+skills.

2. Entries close immediately when X number of entries have been received

I am totally against this, as it defeats the intent of level contests: We do want to have as many participants (and new levels) as possible, so excluding someone just because several others were faster is nonsense. (Sorry for the strong words, but I am really passionate about not having this rule).

I have no real preferences among the other rules, but would like to keep the rule as simple as possible. I could actually live with a slight modification of the current rule like "3 weeks + 2 additional weeks if less than 4 participants".

PS @namida: Why haven't we seen any level of yours in the level contests so far?

Devilish 2 - Integrated Circuit



Lemmings: 10
Save: 90% = 9 lemmings
Release Rate: 1
Time: 3 minutes
Skills: 9 builders, 1 blocker

Good: A very dynamic level. Its main theme is used several times with slight variations.
Bad: Skill placement needs to be rather precise or you will save only 8 lemmings. Carefully analyzing the terrain is necessary, unless you want to be surprised by traps (on the left-hand side) or small gaps in vertical bars (at the bottom right corner).

Doing this can change a lot of singleplayer maps to be broken.

The only change in game mechanics discussed right now, seems to be the removal of timers to bombers. As far as I know, there are only very few levels, that might be affected by instant bombers (e.g. Won't get fooled again, though I can't confirm that right now).

And while there is no need to break things that aren't broken, one can do so, if it results in easier gameplay .