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Test of the Pathmaker

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  Test of the  
Pathmaker
Discipline
Requirements
  • Level 6
Principles
Demonstration
  • Demonstrated by ?? in ?? on ??.



Pathmaker1.png
Size N/A
Where outside



Overview

Design a miniature system of aqueduct towers, and challenge others to connect them in a loop. Living mossy towers (green) require the pipe to pass straight through, but turn adjacent. Dead (black) towers require the pipe to turn in place, but extend straight.

Principles

Principles of the Pathmaker will lead you through making one of each type of item needed to build a Pathmaker. Of course, you may trade for the materials, bypassing all of those steps.

Don't Panic!

All steps regarding cutting a gem and mining gems do not need to be resolved. Once a Pathmaker has been built and Opened for judging, all Construction related steps are automatically completed if not already!

Designing a Puzzle

Cost to build

Built in a Small Construction Site Under Test Menu

How to design the Pathmaker

Solving a Puzzle

The test description isn't very clear about the rules. Here's some clarification.

A Pathmaker puzzle is played on a two-dimensional grid. Initially, each square either contains a red tower, blue tower, or is empty.

You may place pipe segments on a square, including squares containing a tower, by clicking on the square. Clicking on a square again cycles through the possible pipe options for that square:

  • Straight pipe, top-to-bottom.
  • Straight pipe, left-to-right.
  • Pipe with a 90 degree bend (4 possible orientations).

The object of the puzzle is to join all towers into a single closed loop, while obeying these rules:

  • All pipes must connect up correctly to adjacent squares
  • You may only have one pipe segment per square, i.e. you cannot have a "cross" pipe.
  • Pipes on a square with a blue tower must be straight.
  • Pipes on a square with a red tower must be a 90 degree bend.
  • One of the pipes connected immediately adjacent to a blue tower must be a 90 degree bend. (Note: the rules only require one of the two to be a bend, but both can be bends if you like).
  • The two pipes connected immediately adjacent to a red tower must be straight.

The Pathmaker will not let you place pipes that violate these rules.


Pathmaker Locations

Region Coordinates Designer Passed Remarks RL Date opened
Cradle of the Sun 4304, -787 Peabody No Near the COTS CS 10-Jan-2016
Midland Valley 911, 4855 Tesa No Just s of the MV CS 1/26/16
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Passes (including "recently passed" puzzles)

See Test Pass History - http://julianatdeltona.com/atitd/PassedTests.aspx

Needed to Demonstrate the Principle