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Voting for Puzzles in BQ2

  • kentona
  • 05/25/2009 11:28 AM
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Someone pointed out to me that the voting should've taken place in a blog post for the game. They're right. It should have.

I made up categories on the spot, and then submitted my nominations for them. People have since replied to them in the thread, but I hope that they take the time to repost them here for posterity.

Here are my votes:
Best Puzzle:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker

Funnest Map:
Economy Sim by Craze

Overachiever Award:
Liberty for Riddle of 7

Biggest Rip-Off:
Zack's Chip Challenge by kentona

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
Lazer Su Doku by GameOverGames Productions

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Best Puzzle:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker

Funnest Map:
Economy Sim by Craze

Overachiever Award:
Liberty for Riddle of 7

Biggest Rip-Off:
Zack's Chip Challenge by kentona (this category is rigged)

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker
Best Puzzle:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker

Funnest Map:
Economy Sim by Craze

Overachiever Award:
Riddle of 7 by Liberty

Biggest Rip-Off:
Rocks, Slings and Arrows by SavageIntentions

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
Lazer Su Doku by GameOverGames Productions
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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Best Puzzle:
Setting the Table... yeah, loved this one. It took me a while to figure out what I was supposed to do, though!

Funnest Map:
Zack's Chip Challenge... man oh man this was a blast. Not really ZOMGDIFFICULT but it was very fun.

Overachiever Award:
The One with the Billion Arrows... too many arrows, so little caring.

Biggest Rip-Off:
Ha'naan in Liberty's Game... I want some man! You now owe me $0/mo. in royalties btw.

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
The Skeleton One... it was annoying and I had to keep save files. More of a luck thing than a puzzle. :<
Best Puzzle:
Riddle of Seven by Liberty

Funnest Map:
Economy Sim by Craze

Overachiever Award
Riddle of Seven by Liberty

Biggest Rip-off:
Zack's Chip Challenge by kentona

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
Lazer Su Doku by GameOverGames Productions
Best Puzzle:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker

Funnest Map:
Setting the Table by Gibmaker (I LOVE Sokoban!)

Overachiever Award:
Riddle of 7 by Liberty (Even though Sloth is broken)

Biggest Rip-Off:
Zack's Chip Challenge by kentona (Though it's the only one)

Shake Fist In Frustration Award:
Economy Sim by Craze (Because you cannot start over before 10 turns)

I really liked the look of "Tick Tock Took Book by Jakester" however I finished it pretty quickly, and "Lazer Su Doku by GameOverGames Productions" should have included some rules for those of us who don't play.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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Best Puzzle
Economy Sim: Very basic in this form but it could be a grand thing if expanded. Was it all ready? I don't know.

Funnest Map
Zack's Chip Challenge: Bummer.

Overachiever Award
Setting the Table: Because I wasted a whole day on it when I should have been playing sports with the other boys.

Biggest Rip-Off
Lazer Su Doku: Is that rip-off as in stolen from something else? Because yeah.

Shake Fist In Frustration Award
Lazer Su Doku: Because yeah.

A thing for each map:


Angels & Demons - You can solve the switch one a little too easily by just checking the angel after hitting each switch. I wasn't sure how the angels and demons actually fit in, if they were even supposed to.

Tick Tock Took Book - A pretty simple one-off puzzle. I solved it in about 60 seconds. Having to pick up the book on the table was a devious touch though.

Rocks, Slings and Arrows - Classic dungeon puzzles. I find the switch ones bizarrely entertaining, although I got the left one exactly right the first time by chance. The arrow part wasn't very hard considering the "true" path goes straight across without using any of the stepping stones.

Zack's Chip Challenge - Craploads of fun! Takes me back to 1999. All the little mini-puzzles are well done and I was glad you didn't have to restart the whole map every time you died. The music was delightful until about the 20th loop. Too bad there wasn't "Watch out for creatures!"

Lazer Su Doku - A really well-done puzzle, but it slowed the pace of the game right down and I cheated due to impatience, since these things take like 30 minutes to do. Especially after I made a mistake and mistakes are impossible to root out in sudoku without starting over. And then WTF HARD MODE??? Nice to see the sci-fi chipset.

The Curious Chase of Zack Zachariah - At first I thought this puzzle was broken, but the correct path to the stairs is rather ingeniously concealed, the way you have to waste a few steps at the start. TRICKY.

Lovely Logic - Pretty simple to figure out, I guessed right the first time. Too bad most of the things the Alexes say are extraneous. I like meat too. EDIT: OIC the correct Alex is randomized every time.

Economy Sim - This puzzle certainly has a lot of potential to grow in complexity, and it could use more graphical indications of your decisions. On my second try I ALMOST got to the goal, but it shunted me to the next map anyway. Oh well. The trick seems to be not to use any warriors at all. What are they good for?

Riddle of 7 - Some unexpected sympathy for the baroness! The trick to the greed puzzle is given away by the timer being visible. Oops? A couple times I accidentally blundered into a portal without reading the plaques and I felt sad that I couldn't go out again to check them. I'm pretty sure I beat Wrath by accident. Are you just supposed to get your ass kicked?

Skeleton Ship - This was actually a welcome change of pace after the Economy Sim. Mindless running puzzle win! PS I probably hate you too.

Future's Past - A bit tedious talking to everyone over and over for clues, but not hard to figure out. The hardest part was finding all the parts of the store that needed fixing. Could plants really ruin a relationship?

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda - A pretty random puzzle. Not hard to get through by just clicking on everything. I liked spinning grandma, but I'm not sure why she was there, or what the premise of the whole thing was.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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