Anyone good at Puzznic?

loligo1

I can usually breeze through the levels but I'm really stuck on this one level and have been for weeks now (check the image).

The bottom 'cave' takes care of itself, but in the top 'cave' I find no matter what I do I can never make a shape such that the three yellow diamonds can be eliminated in one go.

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Alternatively does anyone know where there might be a solution/walkthru online for arcade/mame version of the game? (I can't seem to find one after looking)

sengoku

It can be a little long winded trying to solve it as a picture.

If you like, you can you post a SAVE STATE so others can try it? Also, please mention the version of the emulator you are using.

loligo1

Thanks for the reply.

I think I've attached the right file? It's an '.sta' file.

The version of the emulator I'm using is 'MAME32 0.108u1'

Thanks again!

(BTW, I've found it's a very finicky save-state. For one thing you can't load it during the pre-game screen or the level path choice screen. You have to be playing level 1 before calling up the save-state.

Also when you load the save-state you still won't see it! :eek: You have to actually die/quit once before you can see it. When you load the state you'll probably see the bricks in the background change colour from purple to pink, but nothing else changes. This means the state has loaded)

loligo1

BTW, slightly related / slight OT question. I know that's a really old version of MAME I mentioned there. Is there some better / newer version I should probably try out seeing as it's 2013?

loligo1

Hi , original poster here. I made a breakthrough and beat the level. Turns out if you move the cursor quick enough can activate the next move while the previous pairing is still disintegrating. Good to know as I'm fairly convinced there was no possible sequence of moves to remove all the tiles in this level with the conventional "move wait move wait move .... " method.

Amazing it lets you get to level 32 without knowing/needing this! :eek:

Anyway, problem solved. Thanks again.

sengoku

Sorry about the late reply. I'm glad to hear that you beat the level, I didn't get a chance to look at the save state.

I've never heard or played Puzznic till you started this thread, I had a quick game to get an idea of what it was like and I liked it. I'll give a proper go when I get time.

loligo1

Nice to hear another there's another potential Puzznic fan in the making!

I think it's one of those perfect puzzle games, It's fun to play, satisfying when you beat a level and you can feel that his has a properly designed difficulty curve (or at least it has until the level I posted about! )

Good luck with it!