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Congratulations to Marco on winning Bricks Holiday 15! It was nice to see a lot of players getting records, I hope everyone enjoyed the competition. The final results can be seen here.
Bricks Holiday 15 ("Dr. Snowbeard and the Seven Dwarf Pirates") starts tonight! The levels can be downloaded here; please read the competition rules before playing. Good luck everybody, and have fun! :-)
Bricks Holiday 14 starts tonight, thanks to Marco! The levels can be downloaded here; please read the competition rules before playing.
Congratulations to Marco on winning the Bricks Holiday 13 competition!
Bricks Holiday 13 starts tonight, courtesy of Jim Gdowik! The levels can be downloaded here; please read the competition rules before playing.
Good luck everybody, stay safe, and have fun!
Two months remain in Eckhard's Bricks Holiday 12 competition. The 1/3 results can be seen here. Congratulations to the early record holders, good luck everybody, and have fun!
Bricks Holiday 11 is now over. Congratulations to all record holders, and in particular the impressive winner: Eckhard Rauch, with 20 records! I hope everybody enjoyed the competition.
2/3 results for Bricks Holiday 11 are now available. Well done everybody, and especially Eckhard who broke a whopping 8 records this month! One month left though, so the competition's still all open :)
1/3 results for Bricks Holiday 11 are now up. Congratulations to the leaders and record holders, and good luck for the next two months everybody!
Bricks Holiday 11 starts today! The levels can be downloaded here; please read the competition rules before playing. Good luck everybody, and have fun!
Merry Christmas to all Bricks players!
The Bricks Holiday 10 competition is now over. Congratulations to all record holders (there were some truly amazing records!), and many thanks to Fabrice and Eckhard for designing the levels and running the competition! My competition diary can be found here.
1/3 intermediate results for Bricks Holiday 10 are now up. Congratulations to the record holders (especially Marco), and good luck for the remaining months everybody!
Bricks Holiday 10 is now under way! Many thanks to Fabrice Duprat for running the competition, and Fabrice and Eckhard Rauch for designing the levels. Competition rules are here; the levels (and the latest version of Nolan's Bricks for Windows, which supports radiators, ice blocks, polarity switches and magnet floors) can be downloaded here.
Congratulations to Marco for becoming the first player to solve Holy Crap! It took him 29 hours and 1595 moves... maybe he found a particularly difficult packing ;-)
Congratulations to Marco for winning the latest bimonthly competition, Compression! See this .7z for Marco's essay about what happened and how he optimized the level, as well as some solutions.
The new bimonthly, Fringe Ice, is already under way and can be downloaded here.
Happy 2017 everybody, and congratulations to the new Bricks VIII record holders! Here's for another fun year of Bricks :)
The new bimonthly competition (Element Playground) is now under way. Good luck everybody, and have fun! (Note that this competition can only be played with version 1.5 of bricks.exe; Bricks v1.4 cannot read the level file or handle the new elements.)
UWRC has been updated with results from Sparkling Water, Sixpack and Ziggurat II.
The Bricks VIII competition has started, with some exciting new elements! If you want to document your progress and thoughts during the competition, you can download a Bricks VIII diary template here. Good luck everybody, and have fun :-)
Bricks Holiday 9 final results are now available. Congratulations to the record holders, and many thanks to Gerd for organizing! I hope everybody had fun and enjoyed playing. My competition diary can be downloaded here.
Bricks Holiday 9 second month results are now up.
Bricks Holiday 9 first month results are now up. Congratulations to the leaders and record holders, and good luck for the next two months!
Bricks Holiday 9 is now up. Good luck everybody, and have fun!
Bricks Holiday 9 will be launched on March 14, 2016; the competition rules can be found here.
Congratulations to Zia Khurshid for a new record in Matrix (Keyboard) - 31/303 (-1)!
The Bricks Holiday 9 competition is scheduled to start around March 15, 2016, with 48 levels designed by Gerd Maier. A warm-up level set can be downloaded here. Good luck everybody, and have fun!
Happy New Year everybody, and good luck for the new bimonthly competition, Backflip!
Merry Christmas to all Bricks players everywhere!
Custom Bricks V statistics have been updated. Unfortunately I haven't received files from very many players, only forum record updates; I hope more players will send me their cbricks5.txt files (.brk files are also accepted, but not necessary). If you haven't played CB5 yet, download it now - you're missing out on plenty of fun!
Congratulations to Marco Roger Graf for winning Bricks Holiday 8 ("Barbara and the Amazing Unicolor Burro")! He played brilliantly and dominated the competition with an out-of-this-world total score of 46380, even smashing the designer total.
The quality of play this year was extremely high, with many other players also in the fight for records. Congratulations to all record holders and all players satisfied with their results, and good luck next year everybody! I hope you enjoyed playing.
Also, congratulations to the only player to find 61 in Horrible, winning a bimonthly competition for the first time... S. Brockelhurst! The new competition puzzle, Volga Estate, can be downloaded here.
Second month results are now up - good luck for the final month everybody, and have fun!
First month results are now up. Congratulations to the leaders and record holders!
Bricks Holiday 8 ("Barbara and the Amazing Unicolor Burro") is now up. I hope everybody will have fun and enjoy solving and optimizing at least some of the levels :) The competition rules can be found here.
Beginning is now 105 (-7) by me, and Bishops is 35 (-1) :) The Happy Smile record list has been updated accordingly.
Thanks to Nolan Pflug for updating Bricks for Windows to v1.4! A list of changes and fixes can be found in this thread.
In other news, Bricks Holiday 8 "Barbara and the Amazing Unicolor Burro" is scheduled for a launch on June, 1st. Watch out for further announcements here and at the Bricks Game Forum. Welcome to play!
Bricks Holiday 7 is over! Many thanks to Gerd Maier for running the competition, and congratulations to all record holders (and those otherwise satisfied with their play!) My evil secret diary can be downloaded here.
The new bimonthly, Hoverpush, can be downloaded here. Good luck, and have fun!
Congratulations to Ahmad Azmy for winning the latest bimonthly, X IN A BOX, on steps! The new competition, ZZZONK!, is already available here.
Custom Bricks V is now available! Thanks to all level designers and special thanks to Jim and Pepijn for testplaying levels and Nolan for adding finishing touches to the DLL. Go get the records while they're nice and soft :-)
Congratulations to Marco on breaking his own record in Kelvin and winning the SWITCH-O-RAMA bimonthly competition! He seems to be on fire right now (i.e. he's playing). The new competition, Concentricity, is already under way - good luck everybody!
Also congratulations to Gerd and Pepijn on improving their own record in Crossover! I'll update the UWRC and the Bricks VI and Bricks VII record lists some time soon.
Congratulations to Marco for breaking three records in Bricks VI - Clockwork Orange, Ship of Fools and Kelvin!
Ten Magicians is now 148 by Juan Ignacio.
Bricks VII statistics have been updated. Gerd Maier and Pepijn Boot got their first record in Crossover at 135 (-1), congratulations! Meanwhile, Juan Ignacio Fernández somehow managed to bring Ten Magicians down to an impressive 149 moves and also enters the top 4 in several other levels.
Happy New Year to all Bricks players, and good luck for the new bimonthly, SWITCH-O-RAMA! Looks like a multi-tie, so hurry up :)
In other news, I'll be collecting potential Custom Bricks V levels for the following month. Anyone interested should look here for details.
Also, recognition here of Paul's amazing achievement in actually solving Holy Moses has been long overdue!
Merry Christmas to all followers of the Bricks God, regardless of their religious affiliation or lack thereof! :)
I've added a third snack level, Amesbury. Have fun!
Another snack level, Saguaro, has been added to the same file.
In case you need a quick Bricks snack, here's a short new level called Hypno-Goatee :) Grab the record while it's hot!
Yes, Boris has really become a weekly comic again :) It should stay that way for a while.
This year's final bimonthly competition, Finnish Chess, is now under way. Good luck everybody, and have fun! :-)
Congratulations to Juan Ignacio Fernández on winning the Key Issue competition with 63/167! This was his first victory since Fish Food in July/August 2010 and moves him up to 4th in the latest UWRC update. Full competition results can be found here.
The Bricks Holiday 6 competition ("Delayed Holiday") has concluded, with the current WR at an unbelievable 46004 points. Many thanks to Marco and to all participants, and congratulations to the record holders! I hope you enjoyed this competition as much as I did :)
Those interested can find my competition diary here.
Fabrice's Bricks Holiday website is up again :-)
The Bricks Holiday 6 competition will end on Tuesday. Good luck with your final push, and remember to send your solutions to Marco!
Bricks Holiday 6 intermediate results are now up. Good luck for the last month!
Updated all statistics for Bricks V and Bricks VI :)
The July/August bimonthly, Dysnomia, was won by me :) Congratulations to Gerd Maier for entering the UWRC top 30 thanks to an excellent 2nd place finish!
The September/October competition, Key Issue, is already under way.
Bricks Holiday 6 "Delayed Holiday" is finally up :) You can download it here. Please also read the official competition rules for details on how everything works.
Note that Marco will not be reviewing any solutions until August 1. Good luck for the three-month competition, remember to send intermediate updates every month... and have fun! :-)
With Marco's 97 in Eight Ball and Péter's 128 in Cap finally finding some company, Marco's Transport @ 87 from August 2001 is now the top Lonely Record in Custom Bricks :-)
Congratulations to Marco for winning the Pyxis competition on steps! It was also nice to see Kurt making a comeback in 2nd place. UWRC has been updated. The new bimonthly competition, Dysnomia, is already up and looks like an entertaining challenge :-)
This year's Bricks Holiday competition (Bricks Holiday 6: "No Special Name Announced Yet", designed by Marco), is tentatively scheduled to start on July 15. While you're waiting for that, have fun optimizing Dysnomia, and check out my new Bricks Holiday page!
In yet further news, Canis Major (Bricks VII) is now at 117 (-1) by me.
Congratulations to Eckhard and Fabrice on two new records in Bricks VII - Ursa Minor @ 253 (-2) and Peachtree @ 209 (-3)!
Good luck for the new competition, Pyxis! Marco is the early leader with 108 moves.
Congratulations to Bettina Leonhardt for her first bimonthly victory, Alderamin! Eight players found a 41-move solution but there was quite a large spread in steps. UWRC standings have been updated again, with Dominique Raffray entering the top 30 for the first time.
New record in Hoverlloyd (Keyboard) by Lars - 80/820!
Andreas has announced an exciting new Bricks-type game, Conveyor Bricks! Post in the forum or contact Andreas for an early version of this game :)
In other news, Boris is back!
Updated the Keyboard record list with five new records by Sven Bråmå, including two move improvements: Jolly Jumper in 61 (-1) and Queuejumper in 29 (-3)!
(Note 1.4. - Jolly Jumper has been further improved to 60/500 by Lars.)
(Note 2.4. - Sven is now back on top with 59/534!)
Congratulations to James Gdowik for winning the latest bimonthly, Backdraft! UWRC has been updated accordingly.
The new competition, Alderamin, has already started. Good luck everybody, and have fun!
New record in Crosses (Custom Bricks I) - 57 moves (-2) by Lars Bråmå!
We also have two new records in Keyboard - Underworld in 63 (-11) by Lars and Yuletide in 100 (-2) by myself :-)
Congrats to Paul Byrne for some very impressive new records: Shark and Chess in Bricks I and Hyacinth in Bricks V! Hyacinth is now the only level in Bricks V where neither of the top teams has +0, and the #1 Amazing Record. Also, Henru has a new record in Bricks VII (Canis Major), and I managed to improve Blockade by 1 move :-)
Congratulations to Johan de Koning for winning Icicles by 10 moves, becoming the first player with 7 victories in bimonthly competitions! UWRC has been updated, with Johan moving from 5th to 3rd. Hans Karl Hansen also had a nice showing with his best ever 2nd place, moving within two points of the UWRC top 30.
Happy New Year to all Bricks players!
This year's first bimonthly competition, Backdraft, is already up. Good luck everybody!
The Wheel (Bricks VII) is now at 171 (-2) by me :)
Site update by Andreas and, accordingly, by me. New records were set by Johan in Enceladus (202 / -2) and Henru&Ivan in Juniper (213 / -1), congratulations! Also, there were a number of changes in the Bricks VII Amazing Records lists, with Eppy and Golden Ratio being pushed out of the top 6.
Just so I don't get too depressed announcing and updating all these records and improvements by other players, there's a new #1 Amazing Record in Custom Bricks III - Pizza @ 78 (-5) by myself :-)
Congratulations to Johan de Koning, winner of the Beer Coaster competition by 5 moves! Percentagewise, this is the largest margin of victory in many years, and one of the largest ever:
| 1. Antimatter (May '08) | @ 225 | (+12.00%) | by Johan | (Followed by Juan Ignacio @ 252 (+27)) |
| 2. Arena (Jan '02) | @ 199 | (+7.54%) | by Matt | (Followed by Péter @ 214 (+15)) |
| 3. Windmill (Sep '02) | @ 181 | (+5.52%) | by Péter | (Followed by Fabrice @ 191 (+10)) |
| 4. Beer Coaster (Sep '12) | @ 104 | (+4.81%) | by Johan | (Followed by Sampsa @ 109 (+5)) |
| 5. Clubs (Sep '04) | @ 175 | (+4.57%) | by Marco | (Followed by Nolan @ 183 (+8)) |
Johan also gives us a new record in Peppermint, 331 (-4)! Both UWRC and Bricks VII statistics have been updated
accordingly.
All Bricks VII statistics have been updated again. There are some totally nutty new records, in particular Paul's 97 (-67) in Magic Forest (now a totally deserved #1 on the Amazing Records list!), so the best known for 48 levels has zoomed past not only 40000 but 40100 as well.
Other new records include Henru and Ivan's 418 (-35) in Leo Minor, Johan's 204 (-6) in Enceladus, E&F's 136 (-1) in Crossover and my own 189 (-2) in Angkor Wat (breaking Johan's 191 (-1), also a new record). Congratulations to all new record holders!
All Bricks VII statistics have been updated today. Congratulations to Paul Byrne and Zia Khurshid on their shiny new records in Nostromo and So Close respectively! Ghost of Mirach falls from 2nd to 6th in Best Average Solution as several new entrants make the table in that category, while Buckle becomes the second level with at least ten non-red solutions.
The world record in Bricks VII is now only six moves short of the magical 40000 barrier :)
Congrats to Michael Kunith for winning the latest bimonthly competition (Waterfall) by a clear move to enter the top 10 in the latest UWRC update!
Pepijn Boot's Bricks Holiday 5 competition has concluded. Congrats to all medalists and record holders, and thanks to Pepijn! I hope everybody enjoyed taking part.
World Record is currently at 45949, with full statistics now available. The really curious can have a peek at my scoreboard and even read my competition diary :-)
Paul's scoreboard added to Bricks VII competition stats page.
Congrats to Ahmad Azmy for his second consecutive bimonthly victory, Thasos! UWRC has been updated accordingly.
The next competition, Waterfall, is already well under way - good luck everybody!
Bricks Holiday 5 has started! Get the levels here :)
In other news, Eckhard improved Buckle to 102 (-1), while Latvia is now 77/893 by me.
New records in Cupido (244 by Juan Ignacio) and Canada (56/578 by Sampsa)! Cupido now has the longest Best Solution History of all Bricks VII levels at 8 records, breaking the tie with Big Slider Block.
Pepijn Boot's Bricks Holiday 5 is scheduled for a launch on June, 1st. Everybody is welcomed to play :) The format is slightly different from previous Bricks Holiday competitions as there are two competitions in one; you can read the rules here.
Bricks VII statistics updated again with a number of improvements by Eckhard&Fabrice, including one new record - Space Invader in 79 (-1)! In other news, Boris is here again ;-)
Bricks V statistics and top 4 table have also been updated, with Turkey Dinner overtaking Meander by a nose to top the Worst Average Solution list :)
Fabrice's Unofficial World Ranking Competition is now updated here :-)
Some more Bricks VII records - Zia improved So Close to 71 (-1) and Eckhard not only continues to rule Space Invader, but even managed to break the 3-way tie in Crossover!
Another Bricks VII update :)
Rodolfo now has the best 4th place solution, thanks to Johan becoming the third player with 95. Crossover and Castle of Despair now also feature on that list, which has been extended to 6 places. Henru and Ivan improved their Nightcrawler to 11 (+2) so Epimetheus unbelievably becomes the top Amazing Record...
Last but not least, there's a new record in Space Invader by Eckhard and Fabrice!
Updated Bricks VII statistics, starring an amazing 271 (-50) in U-96 by Henru Wang and Ivan Martinovic.
Congrats to Ahmad, winner of the Pentolock competition with 81/369, and all other players with 81 moves! The new competition, Thasos, has already started, and I'm sure somebody can bump me off the lead :)
In other news, Bricks VI statistics have been updated with a couple new records :)
Bricks VII statistics updated :)
I won this year's first bimonthly (Hindenburg) despite missing at least 6 moves :) Good luck everybody with the evil Pentolock, and congrats to early leaders Ahmad and Juan Ignacio :-)
More records by Ivan&Henru, Johan and Juan Ignacio in Bricks VII, including an amazing 176 (-32) in Testudo Immortalis by Ivan and Henru!
Congrats to Henru, Johan and Andreas for some new records in Bricks VII, and Sven for a new record in Holy Moly!
Happy New Year everybody! Here's to another 12 months of Bricks fun :)
Congrats to James Gdowik for winning Yashichi - the only player to find 46! Good luck everyone for the new competition, Hindenburg, which looks to be somewhat longer (unless I missed something) ;-)
You may have spotted a little change in the navigation banner at the top :) I'm taking over as maintainer of Custom Bricks statistics - thanks to Erick Storm for all the work he put in as previous maintainer! Anyone with a Custom Bricks update, please send your text files (CBRICKS1.TXT, CBRICKS2.TXT, CBRICKS3.TXT, CBRICKS4.TXT) to me at the usual address and see your name in the lights :)
Merry Christmas to all followers of the Bricks God, regardless of their religious affiliation! :)
- Congrats to Henru&Ivan and Jyrki, who have improved their own records in Southern Cross and Big Slider Block respectively!
- Removed Evgeni's seven-year-old Twig in 111 from the Lonely Records list ;-)
New BSH-related statistics added :)
Big update by Andreas today. Bricks IV and Bricks VII top 4 tables have been updated accordingly - congrats to Henru&Ivan for their new record in Ursa Minor, 284 (-8)! Gerd and Henru have passed Alan's official score in Bricks IV by 1 point (but are still trailing his unofficial score by quite a bit :p)
All the graph-related Bricks VII stats have also been updated.
Updated top 4 tables for both Bricks VI and Bricks VII. Several ???s were cleared up in the B6 table thanks to Andreas :) A number of Bricks VII records have been improved - congrats to Henru and Ivan for their shiny new 151 (-10) in Kandinsky!
Added a post-comp improvements table for Bricks VI. Updated with a new record in Toe-Tac-Tic :-)
Good luck everybody for the new bimonthly, Yashichi - this one ought to be great fun :-))
Major site update today, the biggest yet, not counting putting the whole thing up in the first place of course ;-)
- Congrats to Eckhard and Jyrki for a new record in Trapping Bag, as well as overtaking Johan in BH4 total score!
- Updated Boris Archive. Also, Boris returns from a hiatus, though I know better than to promise weekly updates.
- Major overhaul of the stat area. The Lonely Records section badly needed updating, with three of the top four (and quite a few of the others) having been equalled - Ernie's 82 in Blue Fish is now more than 3 years ahead of the next loneliest record, high-lighting just how incredible it really is! Alan's 71 in Nyx enters the top 15, the first Bricks VI lonely record on that list and the only lonely record Alan still has... my, how time flies and solutions improve. Also, a *lot* of new statistics have been added, mostly about Bricks III, IV and V. There are some surprises in there... (which of those three comps produced the most records still standing? Which is harder, Traffic or Nightmare?)
- A totally new essay about the Bricks Holiday 4 competition and how I experienced it is up :)
- Congrats to Johan for new records in Holy Moly and Coverland!
- Finally, my Aldebaran 52 is available here for those interested.
Bricks Holiday 4 is over. Final results can be seen at Fabrice's site.
Congrats to the magnificent winner - Johan de Koning - not to forget all the amazing record holders. I did not expect the overall record to be as high as 46084. Thank you everybody for playing and increasing everybody's enjoyment of this competition!
2/3 results up at Fabrice's. Well done everybody, congrats to the record holders, and good luck for the final month!
33% results now up at Fabrice's site. Congrats to everyone with records or perfects, and especially co-leaders Eckhard and Henru!
Bricks Holiday 4 ("Andy and the Mystery Potato") is up. Everybody is highly welcome to play. Please read the competition rules at Fabrice's website (other stuff, such as intermediate and final statistics etc. will also eventually appear there). Enjoy :)
Updated Bricks VII current statistics again with further improvements by Juan Ignacio (new records in Kandinsky and Cupido).
In other news, Bricks Holiday 4 "Andy and the Mystery Potato" is scheduled for a launch on June, 15th. Watch out for further announcements here and at the Bricks Game Forum. Welcome to play!
Updated Bricks IV top 4 table after a new team of Gerd Maier & Henru Wang was introduced.
Updated Bricks VII current statistics with a number of improvements by Juan Ignacio, including a new record of 163 (-7) in Kandinsky.
Bricks VII post-competition statistics are finally here. A major update of Bricks VI stats will follow in a couple days.
In other news, Ernie's 82 in Blue Fish has just become the loneliest Bricks record of all time! Quite deservedly so - I've long since lost count how many totally different 83 solutions I have found, but 82, nope.
This website is up ;-) You will find some entirely new material, such as a whole heap of Bricks VII competition statistics, and quite a lot of stuff somewhat less new but never before published online, such as my top secret Bricks VII diary/commentary or my Bricks Holiday 2 diary for that matter. Also, a lot of things previously available at the Bnnqil Ytjim blog are now here in what I'd like to think is a much more organized and intuitively accessible format.