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Postby munchingfoo on Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:02 am

http://nonoba.com/chris/untangle/?ref=untangleTracking


Let me know if you need any clues :P

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Postby Pacitti on Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:27 am

this is a good game but it's just graph theory in practice!

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Postby Duggeh on Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:31 pm

Enjoying this, not stuck yet, on lvl 9.

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Postby Duggeh on Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:19 pm

14 is hard.

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Postby Duggeh on Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:16 pm

Stuck on smile face level 18. Fed up.

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Postby Fawksie on Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:58 pm

I found this yesterday on a different site. Great minds think alike.
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Postby Nymphomanic on Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:38 pm

I have a literary students mind - ie. I couldn't get past the fourth one, it's something to do with deduction, right?

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Postby Nickel on Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:42 pm

Just started the last level. It looks evil.
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Postby niall on Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:00 am

Quoting Duggeh from 14:16, 24th Jan 2008
Stuck on smile face level 18. Fed up.


same here, got through the rest of it really quickly, now stucl on this one for a few hours now!

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Postby RJ Covino on Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:40 pm

The smile is a tough one; however, I am utterly flummoxed by the one after it. Too many lines!
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Postby Bonnie on Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:36 pm

I've made one prolonged attempt at the smiley face, last night. I'll go back today to solve it.
I basically move the dots around randomly for a few minutes until I see where little niches are made.

Good thing the site remembers where you left off.
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Postby RJ Covino on Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:57 pm

You try that when you get to the level with the dots spelling out the word "EVIL".
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Postby Legion on Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:07 am

The smiley face has got me too- I've been stuck for about 2 hours. Do you have any suggestions on how to go about it? There are two nodes with 13 links, and one with 11 (I think). Any clues as to where I should put those?
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Postby Freaker on Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:49 am

I tend to try and get the outer frame first, with as few nodes as possible - then usually the inner network falls into place bit by bit, or at least I know which nodes I still have to move to the outside.

I don't remember what I did for the smiley level, but it all came together once I took a short break from it. I'm taking that same break from the evil level now - will see where it gets me later ;) !

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Postby Rrrr on Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:31 pm

Quoting Pacitti from 09:27, 24th Jan 2008
this is a good game but it's just graph theory in practice!

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String theory surely?

sigh. sorry.

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Postby Rectalprobe on Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:20 pm

Good game - took me 3 1/2 hours to do the whole lot - its all about recognising the connections and hierarchy within the dots i.e. which ones go within which set - from there you just arrange nicely! :D
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Postby niall on Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:35 pm

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finally! finished the last level on the train at some point this afternoon around Carlisle!

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Postby Freaker on Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:13 pm

Hehe, I just saw this screen as well. Went back to the game after a two-day break, and managed to do the last level in no more than ten minutes, when I had spent ages over it before - once you're off to the right start, it's quite easy. If anyone is stuck enough to want a picture of the arrangement that I finished with, let me know, I took a screenshot just before it faded :) .

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Postby Bonnie on Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:24 pm

Evil was easy for me. It just clicked in my head.
I get the nodes that have very few connections near each other first, like there's four of them that just connect to each other like a suburban cul-de-sac. This way, they're not screwing up your sight of the other, more complicated, connections. Anyway, time for a different game!

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Postby Icecradle on Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:43 pm

Quoting rectalprobe from 18:20, 27th Jan 2008
Good game - took me 3 1/2 hours to do the whole lot - its all about recognising the connections and hierarchy within the dots i.e. which ones go within which set - from there you just arrange nicely! :D


there's a tactic? I just seem to be dragging the dots around till the lines go blue. level 14 so far.
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