Duration:
Bricks Holiday 9 will start on March 14th and finish on June 14th.
Intermediate results will be collected until April 14th and May 14th, 20:00 German time.
The deadline will be on June 14th, 20:00 German time.
You can see the German time and the corresponding time in your country here.
Please send your .brk file before each deadline to Gerd Maier.
And please add your full name in your first mail (if we hadn't contact so far).
Some intermediate statistics and rankings will be displayed here in the thread and on the website;
after the competition, full results, rankings, solution history etc. will be added.
Scoring system:
The scoring system will be the same as last year.
You can get the following bonus points at each level:
- green level: __________________________ 7 points
- white level: __________________________ 5 points
- yellow level: _________________________ 4 points
- blue level: ___________________________ 3 points
- orange level (25.00%-49.99% above green): 2 points
- orange level (50.00%-99.99% above green): 1 point
Additional rules:
In case of a tie on moves, the level record will go to:
1) The tied player with least steps
2) The tied player with least records
3) The tied player with least competition points
4) The tied player with least regular points
5) The tied player who first sent in the solution
This competition is for individual players only, no teams are allowed during the competition time.
After the competition, teaming up is allowed of course.
It is not allowed to give any hints to other players, such as telling scores (for levels or
groups of levels), discussing paths or talking about level features.
Using computer solvers is not allowed (also not on modified levels).
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Some Designer Notes
This holiday will be a bit differently from other sets.
I tried to design some really new and unusual bricks-levels.
A lot of them will have hovers as the generally theme.
Most of them I would entitle as sliding puzzle games
and most of these levels will be easy to solve but hard to optimize.
I hope you like that style.
There will also be some 'figurative' levels.
I hope I haven't overdosed that :)
And there will be some levels with magic stones looking like
normal bricks stones, but you will see that at once.
(at Level 24 '2 Pathfinder' you will have to start in the corner up right)
There will be also one packing level but not a hard one.
Most of the stones are rectangles.
Nearly all levels are in a range of 20 - 70 moves, only one is over 100
and one over 200. A total score over 45500 moves will be a good result :)
I think that generally most of the levels are easy to solve but of course
there will be a few harder ones among the set.
Even not so experienced bricks-players could have a record or some green levels
and I expect a lot of ties ... so take care of your steps :)
In my opinion the levels look best with a black background. (you can change that in the set-up)
I hope you will find enough levels you like and have a bit fun with that set.
Gerd Maier, March 2016
Bricks Holiday 9 will start on March 14th and finish on June 14th.
Intermediate results will be collected until April 14th and May 14th, 20:00 German time.
The deadline will be on June 14th, 20:00 German time.
You can see the German time and the corresponding time in your country here.
Please send your .brk file before each deadline to Gerd Maier.
And please add your full name in your first mail (if we hadn't contact so far).
Some intermediate statistics and rankings will be displayed here in the thread and on the website;
after the competition, full results, rankings, solution history etc. will be added.
Scoring system:
The scoring system will be the same as last year.
You can get the following bonus points at each level:
- green level: __________________________ 7 points
- white level: __________________________ 5 points
- yellow level: _________________________ 4 points
- blue level: ___________________________ 3 points
- orange level (25.00%-49.99% above green): 2 points
- orange level (50.00%-99.99% above green): 1 point
Additional rules:
In case of a tie on moves, the level record will go to:
1) The tied player with least steps
2) The tied player with least records
3) The tied player with least competition points
4) The tied player with least regular points
5) The tied player who first sent in the solution
This competition is for individual players only, no teams are allowed during the competition time.
After the competition, teaming up is allowed of course.
It is not allowed to give any hints to other players, such as telling scores (for levels or
groups of levels), discussing paths or talking about level features.
Using computer solvers is not allowed (also not on modified levels).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some Designer Notes
This holiday will be a bit differently from other sets.
I tried to design some really new and unusual bricks-levels.
A lot of them will have hovers as the generally theme.
Most of them I would entitle as sliding puzzle games
and most of these levels will be easy to solve but hard to optimize.
I hope you like that style.
There will also be some 'figurative' levels.
I hope I haven't overdosed that :)
And there will be some levels with magic stones looking like
normal bricks stones, but you will see that at once.
(at Level 24 '2 Pathfinder' you will have to start in the corner up right)
There will be also one packing level but not a hard one.
Most of the stones are rectangles.
Nearly all levels are in a range of 20 - 70 moves, only one is over 100
and one over 200. A total score over 45500 moves will be a good result :)
I think that generally most of the levels are easy to solve but of course
there will be a few harder ones among the set.
Even not so experienced bricks-players could have a record or some green levels
and I expect a lot of ties ... so take care of your steps :)
In my opinion the levels look best with a black background. (you can change that in the set-up)
I hope you will find enough levels you like and have a bit fun with that set.
Gerd Maier, March 2016