Traffic Warden

[Hand-E-Food]

Traffic Warden: dopilor.  Can you direct a busy intersection of crates?  Get each stream of crates to the opposite side of the screen.  The puzzle is designed such that you need to move an infinate number of each crate without replicating or destroying any crates.  It's purely a timing exercise.

EDIT: I've modified the target areas.  With so many crates and targets, it was running very slowly.

[Hand-E-Food]

Wow!  I wasn't sure if this was possible, but it is.  My solution: kimeref

[jnz]

My solution: calidux.  It seems like we had basically the same idea.  Limit each stream to 1/4 rate, mix two streams together, and then extract the one you want by timing the dozers.  The 3s are the hardest to get where they are going.  I had a solution that ran at 1/2 rate working for everything but the 3s.

[SM]

Thank God I found a solution b/c I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my job if I spend any more time today doing this.


Complicated solution- but I really wanted to use gates to get this one there.

The hardest part for mine was crossing the 7s and As and - I can't believe this worked, but if  you see how I did it, it's pretty cool...

LUFYLOP

[20eight]

Traffic Warden is an awesome puzzle, Hand-E.  I wasn't sure I would be able to pull it off. 

I tried timing the streams like the others, but I got frustrated so I decided to let the 3's and 7's go first and them cut them of to let the letters their turn.  It's not all that pretty; but it works, ruraguc.

[Hand-E-Food]

I'm really glad you all enjoyed it!  Without realising it, I'd made the puzzle twice as hard by placing the inputs and outputs so close to the corners.  I reckon it just made it all the more fun.

[Rene]

I looked at this before and did not think I had much to add to the existing solutions. But then I had a neat idea and went with it all the way. Here is my solution:

    lumydeb

The hardest part was to cross the A's and 3's. That was because it did not seem possible to draw two 4 tick streams through the same up-pipe without the use of a furnace draw (no copiers and furnaces allowed    ). But then I came up with the contraption in the top-right corner, and that works beautifully.