> I don't agree with SuyonoAll levels in Updates.zip are solvable, including all of Suyono's levels. When a level author submits a new level to Donald, they also have to submit a ".lpb" file, which Donald uses to confirm a level has a solution. In addition, any level that has a GHS must have been solved by another person.
> at that point:
> "If the lpb is given, the player learns nothing".
> If a player has lpb - he/she learns how to solve similar levels
> and accumulates his/her knowledge.
> Many Suyono's levels ( published at pseudonym Yono in JKT )
> are actually unsolvable - and he cannot prove that they are
> solvable until LBP's are not published.
> > message 6406 from Suyono:
> > 4. Many levels are so difficult not
> > because they use complex trick. See
> > LaserTank #0040 "Down the Drain" for
> > example. Every player knows the rules,
> > but he/she may have difficulty solving
> > it. If the lpb is given, the player
> > learns nothing. (Compare to playing
> > tutorial levels like Tutor.LVL and
> > Tutor-with-Playbacks.LVL.) People are
> > too curious to see something they don't
> > know.
Suyono's above comment agrees with you that a person can learn how to solve similar levels by watching a playback from a ".lpb" file. That is why he mentions Tutor-with-Playbacks.LVL. That has example (tutor) levels and comes with ".lpb" files so a person can see how they are solved. They are to help people learn certain patterns. I agree with him in that approach. If there is some other pattern that could be taught that is not in the tutor levels already, then someone should create a tutor level for that pattern. I also agree with the first part of his comment. Level 40 is indeed a very difficult level, at least it was for me and many others. It does not use any tricks. It does not use any special pattern. It is difficult because of the limited space one has to work in. One has to figure out where the movable blocks need to be placed in order to be able to move the LT anywhere it needs to go. Different people will have a different opinion on the last part of his comment. Some people are certainly too curious aboout looking at answers and will lose the joy of solving something for themselves if they look at its solution before they solve it. But there are other people who would not look at a solution until they have solved it themselves. I feel there are both groups of people for puzzle magazines that contain answers at the back of the magazine, and I feel there are both groups of people solving LT puzzles. I feel the greatest disadvantage in having playback files available to everyone is that it can cheat a number of people that have gotten GHSs. A GHS solution might contain something brilliant, but miss a simple optimization. Someone else takes their playback, sees the simple optimization, and gets the GHS. Of those 2 people, it is the one that thought of the brilliant thing who should have the GHS, and not the person who did the simple optimization.