One problem with solving many as one, is that the usual method of displaying a solution as a gif can be inadequate. But know that the story is only just beginning. To finish out the history lesson here, I will share two gifs of solutions to this puzzle. To solve all of the puzzles, you needed to have some logic inside of your machine. That solves one of the puzzles (the one in the image above), but not all of them. You also can’t get away with spinning the input around 180 degrees. That solves one of the puzzles but not all of them. You can’t get away with grabbing a bunch of water inputs and sticking them onto the gold atom, and counting that as done. In order for your solution to successfully invert the colors of an arbitrary wheel, you can’t do normal Opus Magnum things. What I mean when I call it a computation puzzle, is that the input and output are related algorithmically. But what RP0 provided with this final set of puzzles, is the first “computation puzzle” in Opus Magnum tournament history. This may seem like a very peculiar challenge. For every puzzle, the output could be reached from the input by replacing earth by air, fire by water, air by earth, water by fire, and leaving salt as salt. They each had gold in the center, and some collection of earth, fire, air, water, and salt around the ring. The 5 different versions of the puzzle all used different wheel inputs and outputs. For every variant, the output wheel could be reached from the input by performing the set of replacements on the right. In other variants, the 7 atom input had its 6 outer atoms changed to other combinations of the cardinal elements and salt. One of the 5 variants of Wheel Inversion, the final puzzle of the 2019 tournament. We had a week to send in solutions for “Unwinding.” When it began, every player was shown the first puzzle. He stirred up a fair amount of interest from top players on Discord and reddit, created several custom puzzles in the editor, and put together a small amount of infrastructure to collect and compare solutions. The first tournament was in early 2019, led by RP0. So let’s first talk about Opus Magnum tournaments. No, this was for a competition, and the structure of that competition is relevant to the story. I didn’t build a computer in Opus Magnum simply to prove it could be done. If you don’t, feel free to read the beginning of the previous post for a quick crash course in the game. Note: this post will assume that you know what Opus Magnum is. Let’s take a look at what, how and why, and see some more excellent gifs! I am one of those people, for an appropriate definition of computer. I mentioned in my previous post about Opus Magnum that people have built computers in game.
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