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Keeping Classic Tetris Interesting
In 1989, Nintendo released their take on Tetris, the concept of which had been revealed 5 years previously by Alexey Pajitnov. Some quick math says that 1989 was… a long time ago. There have been many...
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Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
The Conway’s Game of Life community celebrated a landmark achievement on November 9th, 2022. An idea years in the making, the “Reverse Caber Tosser” design finally had all of the pieces it needed to...
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Memorializing Babble Royale
This blog is now 2 years old. I am still here, and you can expect a few backlogged posts to come out soon. This post is how I am choosing to get back into writing. The free-to-play word game “Babble...
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Matching Patterns using Opus Magnum
Hi all, and merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it! Here’s a present from me, a long-awaited blog post about the computation puzzle from the 2023 Opus Magnum tournament. The previous post...
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Looking Beyond the NES Tetris Game Crash
It’s been an incredible week for the NES Tetris community. After Blue Scuti’s legendary game 2 weeks ago, stories started to circulate. The narrative eventually became that this Oklahoma teenager...
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Defeating Refined Bronze (and losing a cow bet)
This post will talk about the game Opus Magnum, the puzzle Refined Bronze, old and brand-new records, and a long standing bit of community lore. Before I get into any of that though, I want to...
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Reaching Long-Awaited Perfection on Opus Magnum’s Final Level
It’s an exciting day. The 21st of September is already celebrated by fans of Earth, Wind and Fire, including the inaugural Opus Magnum tournament‘s host RP0 who included a themed puzzle called “Do you...
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Separating Litharge at Top Speed
It’s been 4 days since Artem uploaded the Universal Solvent 38 cycle solution. Surely that was the exciting cycle record of the year, right? The first main campaign cycle record in 4 years. Well.....
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Surrendering Optimally
There I was, working on the computation puzzle for the 2025 tournament, when I see this show up. Few things would get Grimmy pinging me out of the blue, and nearly all of them are worth my immediate...
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Conquering the Final Cycle
We did it. The Opus Magnum community has built a solution at minimum cycles to every campaign puzzle. The final cycle, Alcohol Separation 16, fell at the hands of rebix, with significant help from...
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