Werbad's Puzzles

[Werbad]

Level	Link
Streams	rilacog
Streams '2'	sixuruk
Streams '3'	kacupev
Encryption Hash	tukafur
Inspection Line	joducuv
Doubles	lagyleh
Change	hucyzir
Change - Poor Version	sugazuz
Messenger	gegygif
Rotation	vagosuv
Train	gaparok
Train v3	pesurud
Merge	notuber
Surfing	resugyd
Surfing v2	liladyn
Dictionary	rydedyf
Tiki Room	gudefud
Twin Works	facypom
Recycle	cufanid
Cycler	butazap
Chambers	gipufyg
Timer	bylomud
Timer v2	gubafed
Castles	lyzebux
Quickpeek	pycezod
Collection	xegukub
Collection 2	coxydet
Collection 2 v2	dogadov
Mass Production	kazyvub
Mass Production v2	pilibuh
Mass Production v3	bysirez
Mass Production v4	gybuxox
Swap	duzyhyn
Simplicity	ricedub
Copier	volubac
Copier 2	byzaled
Full Speed	divosyb
Fragments	dugohok
Troubled Waters	xonogod
Cubicle	gakopig
Shuffle	rebexer
Morse Code	hobegip
Selection	rebexer
Safehouse	lolokir
Safehouse 2	dynozim
Garbage Collection v2	vacysak
Break	visaguz
Zero Point	tozefif
Fire Escape	sobexeg
Make me some C0FFEE	tabivex
Exclusive	zugagag
Exclusive 2	gusinyz
Exclusive 3	zyzaduf
Routing Problems	rynidoh

[Bucky]

Inspection Line(joducuv):bocyboh.  I'm still curious as to how you intended this to be solved.

[Timbo]

For Streams (rilacog): nabycan
For Encryption Hash (tukafur): vonulag
For Change - Poor Version (sugazuz): lumehyd

[Werbad]

Inspection Line (joducuv): buvatub
Streams (rilacog): jypelut
Encryption Hash (tukafur): punytod

When I had finished my solution for Change i thought of how evil it would be to remove all barrels but the 1 barrel, thus resulting in the poor version... Since I wasn't sure if you would have enough room I didn't bother solving it... Nice work on that one.

Made some new ones:
Messenger gegygif
Rotation vagosuv

[Werbad]

New Level:
Train gaparok

I wanted to create a level that wasn't based on random barrels but that still would be a challenge. The resulting machine kinda looked like a train, so I made it into one.

My record is at 4203 ticks, but I'm sure there is a faster solution.

[jf]

For Rotation (vagosuv): baribiz
For Messenger (gegygif): fydalov
For Encryption Hash (tukafur): fanyryg

Messenger was tough. Good puzzles.

[jnz]

For Streams (rilacog) I thought I had come up with a nice minimum-tick solution in fusutit.  Then I realized that I was trying too hard: potygys (let it run for a few minutes).

For Change (hucyzir): fukypus
For Change - Poor Version (sugazuz): vazikir
For Train (gaparok): bydikeg.  A bit off the mark at 7179 ticks.

[jf]

For Streams (rilacog) I thought I had come up with a nice minimum-tick solution in fusutit.  Then I realized that I was trying too hard: potygys (let it run for a few minutes).

I think you mean when the machine gets stuck with F10 which happens if by chance two zeroes in a row are fed in at the bottom. I added the upper right block in my solution just to detect and handle that special case.

For Streams (rilacog): foboted

And for Change - Poor Version (sugazuz): tabuson

[jnz]

I think you mean when the machine gets stuck with F10 which happens if by chance two zeroes in a row are fed in at the bottom. I added the upper right block in my solution just to detect and handle that special case.

Yes, that's what I meant.  I was working on a special case for my machine when I realized that it wasn't going to get me what I wanted.  I couldn't detect the change fast enough to stop the matcher from going red for a couple ticks.  It wouldn't be truly solved until after we got stuck so why bother with the complicated machine when a very simple one could accomplish the same thing?  Now if you could detect the change and switch modes without going red for even one tick ...

For Train (gaparok): beteguc.  1739 ticks.

[jf]

I think you mean when the machine gets stuck with F10 which happens if by chance two zeroes in a row are fed in at the bottom. I added the upper right block in my solution just to detect and handle that special case.

Yes, that's what I meant.  I was working on a special case for my machine when I realized that it wasn't going to get me what I wanted.  I couldn't detect the change fast enough to stop the matcher from going red for a couple ticks.  It wouldn't be truly solved until after we got stuck so why bother with the complicated machine when a very simple one could accomplish the same thing?  Now if you could detect the change and switch modes without going red for even one tick ...

For Train (gaparok): beteguc.  1739 ticks.

Here zigedam is a solution for Streams that detects the change fast enough to maintain the green matcher. The matcher may be red for the first couple of crates during initialization, depending on the start values, but once the matcher turns green it stays green even if the machine gets stuck on F10. This includes the case where the very first two ? crates happen to be zero. To force a stuck machine for testing, in the sandbox put a conveyor belt along the bottom from the right edge of the screen all the way to the bottom two ? crates (over the bricks) and load the right edge of the screen with tons of zero crates. They'll cruise along the conveyor and then jam the machine as they load in place of the ? copier output. Or, just change all three initial ? crates to zero crates, or even just the one over the copier, to vary the time before jamming.

[Werbad]

I thought I had eliminated all getting-stuck cases for streams... Nice work solving it even with this error.
For Train I noticed a design error that allows you to prevent the machine from locking the packer/unpacker sections...
I will see if a can fix it...

My solutions:
Change (hucyzir): jufobuk
Rotation (vagosuv): tuvudyr
Messenger (gegygif): meduxon

Edit:
Train v3 pesurud

Made a second version of Streams. Fixed the double 0-case too.
Streams '2' sixuruk

[jnz]

Here zigedam is a solution for Streams that detects the change fast enough to maintain the green matcher. The matcher may be red for the first couple of crates during initialization, depending on the start values, but once the matcher turns green it stays green even if the machine gets stuck on F10.

Ok, I couldn't let that go unanswered. 
For Streams (rilacog): xydonir.  Solves in 41 ticks and stays solved.

[jf]

...
For Train I noticed a design error that allows you to prevent the machine from locking the packer/unpacker sections...
I will see if a can fix it...

Edit:
Train v3 pesurud
...

I already have a solution for Train, but it depends that design error for just one extra +. My best time  is 2087 ticks so far, and I've just been trying to improve that. There is a solution, then, within the allotment of + and - ? If so, then I'll try that before looking at any solutions yet.

EDIT> Oh, I see my mistake! I just noticed that the leftmost 0 is not sitting on a matcher. If you include the 0, then you need at least one more + or one more -.

[jf]

For Train (gaparok): beteguc.  1739 ticks.

For Train (gaparok): huroroc in 1691 ticks. 

I built a programmable machine which takes these opcodes:
1: add 1
7: no-op
A: accept
F: subtract 1
The paper tape along the top is executed as the two values loop, each in their own independent thread. Of the four possible sequences that solve using at most 15 + and 15 -, this is the shortest. The timing of the bottom track should work fine with Train v3 too.

[Werbad]

Nice!
My solution is also a kind of programmable machine, but a little more complex than yours...
It is actually possible to snatch one more + or - by dropping the 2 crates at the same time...

For Train v3 (pesurud): lucibyb (3903 ticks)

Is there nobody who has tried Doubles yet? Took a while for me to complete, but it is solvable...

Edit:
Merge notuber
Surfing resugyd liladyn (fixed start of a dozer)
Tiki Room gudefud