made for: https://confoundingcalendar.itch.io/ 2023

controls:

left click place conveyor belt, hold shift to place multiple
left click to drag objects
right click to delete belts
z = undo, x/y = redo

equations work horizontally, vertically, and backwards
belts move numbers (edit: can now move symbols)

let me know if you beat my best cycles of 93

Music: "たぬきちの冒険" by MAKOOTO

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Authorbcat112a
GenrePuzzle, Educational
Tagsfactory, Math

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i got 710

626

560

529

286

130

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I got 33 nines in 82 cycles:


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the rounding is extremely annoying

also `=` is left-associative for some reason. Is that intentional?

you mean if you have "=" on both sides of an equation, the left one triggers first? Didn't really consider it just happened to sort them that way

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how do i not just multiply or divide once and then end up with only one number

am i stupid?

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1 / 3 = infinite numbers

i don't get it

you need to get 33 9's

spoiler: 1/3=0.333333333

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hello bcat112a I have beaten your best cycles of ninety-three with my contraption: one-hundred-and-six cycles. I will try for higher later. https://imgur.com/a/5gkI07b

the leftover clues at the end were very intruiging; I calculated the result and called the number on my cellular phone, only to hear the game’s muisc playing both forward and backwards at the same time. I have yet to discover what this is meant to signify

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um the lower cycle numbers are better

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Hint: it's probably a joke.

maybe, it's hard to tell when just typing

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But what's the maximum cycles possible?

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I verified a machine that ran for 226,186 cycles, which took about two hours on the highest speed.

This machine would in theory run for about 14,000,000 cycles, which is about 5 days. (EDIT: bad math, disregard this)

EDIT: After some better arrangement and some machine-aided optimization, revision 2 has a theoretical runtime of 61,000,000 cycles ≈ 3 weeks.

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so, whos crazy enough to actually run it

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finally, the interesting  fact that 5/2=2.5 will be useful!!

how did you get 5 or 2

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hint:1/3=3/9

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Okay there has to be something I'm missing, how do I not just immediately lose all my numbers?

EDIT: oh right
I wish we could conveyor the math symbols though

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you can, but only if the numbers are trying to push them

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What really? That's so strange

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oops that's not supposed to happen, anyway i updated it so you can always move math symbols

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I love your other game, fractal factory! (although I only found how to access it recently on itch, and will need to download it on my other computer because this one doesn't have a desktop)

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Havent started, but I bet itll be fun.

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398. woo

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212. Long way to go

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116. I need a better design

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98. A little more...

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88. Beat the creator, but I still can do better.

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my first was 652

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second try I got 99

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moved it one right and made a simple optimisation and now it's 77.

the key is to use the same = for both divisions

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71

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great game! i got 61 with this configuration https://imgur.com/a/Xvl67Qr

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oops i can't read so didn't realize equations worked backwards too...

here's a 35 https://imgur.com/a/NDLi6KR

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simplest 34 I've found: https://imgur.com/PqdA2j8 (also loops cleanly)

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Im not going to look at the images (so I can figure it out) but those are amazing scores!

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I did look at (thinking that I wouldn't be able to easily remember it), but the solution was so simple I don't know how the creator didn't come up with it.

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that division setup is really nice! I got 35 without it but couldn’t figure out how to shave that last cycle

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mine is practically the same, but this was the least belts (21) I could go for 34 cycles https://imgur.com/a/lYvPYU9

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You guys are amazing. btw 34 cycles is possible with 20 belts 

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oh I didn't see that, nice optimisation

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here's 16 :D

https://imgur.com/a/FHTvlbl

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got 105 cycles, i would love to see how you did it

great choice of music btw