Twee's Puzzles

[Twee]

Nicely done, everyone. It's fun to see four machines with pretty different layouts that do the same thing. I notice that everyone managed to solve "Bottleneck" without slowing down the solution stream except for me. Ah well. I agree that Rene's "Pushing Arithmetic" solution is indeed nice and clean. Also, I just learned the correct spelling for arithmetic.
 Speaking of lazy solutions (or perhaps careless is more the word), I just noticed that Jf's "Thresher variation" solution vozigib uses some illegal 0-barrels.

[jf]

Speaking of lazy solutions (or perhaps careless is more the word), I just noticed that Jf's "Thresher variation" solution vozigib uses some illegal 0-barrels.

Ouch. I don't know if lazy is exactly the right word. It's not giving the puzzle my full attention, and then finishing it off impatiently. I don't remember that puzzle but I'll bet that I had it parked in jnz's rubicon app for a long time, sitting in the sandbox. I'll have a go at it again, without illegal barrels. 

[Twee]

Ouch. I don't know if lazy is exactly the right word.

That was an artless segue on my part. That solution is quite good despite breaking the rules; and obviously not a product of laziness. Sorry it took me so long to mention my agreement.

[jf]

Here is the solution fixed to have the illegal barrels removed  : gytygol

[jf]

For Bottleneck 2 (kavobec): bufodar.

Now looking at Rene and Werbad's solutions, I think they have a much simpler design on the right side. I took the brute force approach.

[colcolpicle]

I like your timing based approach to finding the first value.

[Twee]

Nicely done, Jf. I like how you fit the initialization mechanism entirely on the right side.

 new puzzle: "Cuckoo Clock:fomugak
  I designed it on graph paper while waiting at the DMV- hopefully it isn't too derivative of existing puzzles.

[Werbad]

For Cuckoo Clock (fomugak): samaloh

[jf]

For Cuckoo Clock (fomugak): vohofil

Good puzzle -- it has some nice subtle difficulties to it.

I took pretty much the same approach as Werbad. I wonder if there is a more efficient way to close in on the target value.

[colcolpicle]

cuckoo clock (fomugak) : jarenog
nice puzzle. I probably should have figured out how I was going to detect that the value was correct before I built the dozer loop, but it ended up working out.

edit: now that I see JF's solution I am a bit embarrassed. In comparison my solution is almost laughably crude.

[jf]

edit: now that I see JF's solution I am a bit embarrassed. In comparison my solution is almost laughably crude.

It's been many times that I've seen other solutions that make my solution look over-engineered. 

I just had to try solving this puzzle a different way, so here is my alternate solution for Cuckoo Clock (fomugak): pohinod

I look for an exact match and catch the very first one out, solving with just a single crate except for E and F. For those two, I solve on the first 7 followed by the next 0 or 1. For 0, the puzzle remains solved from the start. I also took great care to fit the puzzle entirely in its stacked vertical space, which required some cramped miniaturization. That was fun!

[jnz]

For Cuckoo Clock (fomugak): zexorid

[Twee]

For Cuckoo Clock (fomugak): vohofil
Good puzzle -- it has some nice subtle difficulties to it.

Thanks!

 Congratulations to everyone who solved cuckoo clock. I have had no time for puzzles since posting it. I haven't actually solved it, but I did make a couple of solution flowcharts on paper when I designed the puzzle.

[Rene]

For Cuckoo (fomugak): xatosad

Pretty much the same principle as everybody else, just a little bit more compact.
I agree with JF: good puzzle. Looks simple at the start, but the twist makes it challenging.

[curly]

Simple and fast solution to Ball-and-cup (debegid) : jokosop