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Old 09-29-2011, 02:42 PM   #1
Len Green
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Default CHALLENGE to smart puzzlers~New Beginning

Bent disabling the bomb at the end of chapter 5.
Seems to me to be one of the worst designed puzzles I've come across in 30 years of Quest/Adventuring.
Or is it just me?

It is very easy to 'overcome' this puzzle (and for some folk to even pretend that they solved it since there is a simple built in 'SKIP' mechanism – but for those who enjoy puzzling in Adventures this is obviously no 'solution'.
I have so far spent about 3/34 hour on it and have not yet discovered the logic or proper mechanism for solving it – other of course than pure butal hit & miss which is most unsatisfactory and has too many variable parameters for me to crack it - as yet!

The only walkthrough I have found on the Net sidesteps this issue. It gives a few general but obvious instructions which are superfluous and ambiguous anyway. It also gives a picture of the situation at the end of the puzzle but absolutely no word about how to get there.

SO --- Can anybody provide one of two hings ~ either :-
(A) A proper full description of how to proceed (not just the generalities of the walkthrough – which are obvious.
(B) OR 1 or preferably 2 or 3 screenies of the solution as it develops.
***** TIA *****
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