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Let's Play Daedalian Opus, part 7

And we're back! Unfortunately, this puzzle steadfastly refuses to be solved. I'm not proud of this, but I'll admit it: at this point I went to GameFAQs. At first I just copied the right branch and attempted to fill in the rest for myself. Then I gave up completely and copied the whole thing (but upside-down). My pride in this LP has dropped from a high treble to a low . My apologies to everyone I've let down. OK, here's 33. A chance for a fresh start. A chance to do things right! Ugh. I'll try again tomorrow. If anyone wants to spare me, I'd be grateful. LATER, THE THRILLING CONCLUSION: I take another shot at #33. Things are rough at first, but out of nowhere it comes together: Well, OK, I'll admit that when I was looking at GameFAQs yesterday for No.32, I noticed that the cup block and the wonky block were together off to the side in their solution to this one. I attempted to solve it without copying that placement (to no

Let's Play Daedalian Opus, part 6

Hello again! When we left off, we were faced with the dread spectre of No.27. Well, actually it didn't look that bad. Let's watch: Well, so far, so bad. I took a break. Here's round two: Gosh, I just can't seem to get it together! But wait! If I move the angle block over, I can totally fill the right side with the chubby and windy blocks: Or so I thought. This game is hard, guys! But wait! If I just try that again: Hooray! I tell ya, the tears of joy are falling like On to number 28. Doesn't look too bad. Lots of corners. I'll take a shot: It's tougher than it looks. I work at it for a while, and my luck comes good: Fortunately, that didn't take too Unfortunately I forgot to take a shot of 29 before I started working on it, but here it is almost solved: And here it is fully solved: So speedy! Maybe I'll finally be allowed into the puzzle solvers' ! OK, this looks bad. And this looks worse. H