Secret Soduko 1

[GooRoo]

Walk-through Blockz 1 through 5 are now set up so that they may be printed on (USA) 'standard' 8-1/2" X 11" paper with no overflowz. For example, if you wanted to know how to handle the Boomerang Grunt #2 in Block 2 of 9 you follow a chain of linkz that endz with _2_Boomerang and would quickly realize that you need to view _2_Springz instead ... because that Grunt immediately was forced to change Toolz. Since that 'page' is Part 1 of 2, you would then follow the next link _2_Springz to read Part 2 of 2.

Printing out all of Block 2 of 9 would take six letter size (USA) pagez of paper ... but you wouldn't have to be on-line in order to use the walk-through.

[Sheroan]

As I can enter the area that has giant rocks and this near the pyramid orange?

[GooRoo]

Jul 8, 2009 12:29:35 GMT -8 Sheroan said:

As I can enter the area that has giant rocks and this near the pyramid orange?

There are several Giant Rockz that are transformed into "SECRET SODUKO 1 when the first grunt leavez the original staging area. These Giant Rockz are due south of Orange Pyramidz that spell out GRUNTZ!. Is this the area you are asking about? If so, what do you want to know?

[Sheroan]

I only need to lower the green pyramid number 5, from above towards check point of the bombz, to finish the game, have tried everything but this is the only one that does not lower, that I have done badly?

[GooRoo]

Jul 11, 2009 10:41:36 GMT -8 Sheroan said:

I only need to lower the green pyramid number 5, from above towards check point of the bombz, to finish the game, have tried everything but this is the only one that does not lower, that I have done badly?

If your numbering is correct, the Switch for that Green Pyramid is a Green Toggle Switch which originally had Springz on it, near a Boxing Glovez CheckPoint Switch . You must have jumped back onto it somehow, to re-raise the Green Pyramid. There is a (lowered) Green Pyramid near the Switch, that was raised (and should stay that way) when Boxing Glovez landed on the Springz.

[Sheroan]

Thank you,Goo Roo

[Sheroan]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! PERFECTTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oldone]

Hey GooRoo,
I've been waiting for 2 years for the walkthrough to this level. Are you ever going to finish it?? Please do, I would love to be able to get through it. I keep trying on my own, but always get stuck in the same place. Now that your animations are done, maybe you could work on this!

Thanks.
PS How'd the Arabic work out?

[GooRoo]

Apr 3, 2010 17:00:50 GMT -8 oldone said:

Hey GooRoo,
I've been waiting for 2 years for the walkthrough to this level. Are you ever going to finish it?? Please do, I would love to be able to get through it. I keep trying on my own, but always get stuck in the same place. Now that your animations are done, maybe you could work on this!

Thanks.
PS How'd the Arabic work out?

There is a very extensive walk-through on my hard drive ... I only hope that I actually uploaded it to the web host, and linked it into the original post!

You should be able to access everything by clicking on this walk-through link.

I ran the Arabic past an acquaintance in the locker room at the athletic club where I play , and he said it was fine ... I just needed to speed up the delivery. In rehearsalz, I never seem to have enough time to get the whole phrase out before I am off stage. I get as fas as "El samah L'il Shurta bil tahqeeq" ... and I am out the door with my Steward on my heelz. So I never get the "fi haza el qatel" out ... and do not know if I am leaving out "the police", "the murder" or "investigate".

[GooRoo]

I may have become distracted from this Custom Level's walk-through, and failed to complete it. I have begun work on it to make it complete, and up to current standardz (designed to fit nicely on American standard 8-1/2" X 11" paper ... and displayed properly in a web browser in that size ... many of the componentz get 'stretched' in my 1024X768 pixel browser window ). So I am making changez as quickly as possible, and uploading them to the web host each evening just before my bedtime. (Which is where I am heading right now!)

[twiggy]

I also had been waiting for the walkthrough and saw that GooRoo had it. So last year, I printed some pages out and thought: Alright, I will finally be able to get somewhere on this very difficult level. Not so much! Sorry to say I am confused by the walkthrough. What does that say about me? I do better with more linear walkthroughs that tell me exactly where to go. to anyone who has finished this level. To me, it is one of the toughest levelz. Kudos, GooRoo!!

[GooRoo]

Apr 4, 2010 12:35:34 GMT -8 twiggy said:

I also had been waiting for the walkthrough and saw that GooRoo had it. So last year, I printed some pages out and thought: Alright, I will finally be able to get somewhere on this very difficult level. Not so much! Sorry to say I am confused by the walkthrough. What does that say about me? I do better with more linear walkthroughs that tell me exactly where to go. to anyone who has finished this level. To me, it is one of the toughest levelz. Kudos, GooRoo!!

If knowing where to go is the problem, perhapz you would like to take a look at the Sudoku^TM solution.

I am back to work on the walk-through componentz for this CL, so the final result may be easier to use ... and (hopefully, IMHO) more attractive, as well. What will take the longest time is adding in the acquisition of Coinz , in the sequence (I believe that) they should be acquired.

P.S. Keep in mind that many wordz are linkz to other HTML memberz, which may be rather helpful in determining what must be done. Some linkz even bring up descriptive picturez! Start with the Index.

[GooRoo]

It is 8:45PM, and I am done with anything computer for the night. Seventeen componentz of the walk-through have been (re-)uploaded to the web host, fairly completing Block 1 of 9, so it should be possible to move into Block 2 ... and muddle on through for a while.

[oldone]

Thankz GooRoo,
I will be trying this again, and hopefully, I can decipher your (sometimez) obtuse cluez.

[GooRoo]

Apr 5, 2010 9:56:32 GMT -8 oldone said:

Thankz GooRoo,
I will be trying this again, and hopefully, I can decipher your (sometimez) obtuse cluez.

The walk-through is by no meanz complete and up-to-date ... but I am continually working on it. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I upload everything I change at least once a day (prior to midnight, Pacific Daylight Savings Time (west coast USA time zone) at the very least). So far, I have done little in linking Coinz from the inventory into the text walk-through, so it is not (currently) possible to verify that the solver has acquired all of the possible Coinz as they proceed through the solution. The Coinz inventory was put together in the order in which I added them into the map, and not in the order in which they are acquired. So the first Coin acquired is #001 in the list, but the next one is #023! I am working through the solution block section by block section, and try to relate back to the Coinz inventory as I go ... but I am sure I am missing some, since I am not actually playing the puzzle while I am working on the walk-through. Also, since some Coinz are acquired via Red Warpz, I have to simultaneously work on the Secretz component while working on the "how-to" componentz.

[oldone]

Truthfully? I don't really care if I get all the coins. I just want to be able to make my way to the end. I have started it twice so far today and am beginning on my third try. Seems I sent someone thru the wrong return wormhole, and now I have a springz that is blocked by one. Can't continue!! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!

[GooRoo]

Apr 5, 2010 14:19:24 GMT -8 oldone said:

Truthfully? I don't really care if I get all the coins. I just want to be able to make my way to the end. I have started it twice so far today and am beginning on my third try. Seems I sent someone thru the wrong return wormhole, and now I have a springz that is blocked by one. Can't continue!! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Gruntz #4 (in my walk-through), who startz out with a Shovel, landz on a set of Springz ... is that the Grunt you are talking about? If so, do not despair, because everyone else completez their task in block 1, and startz working in block 2 before Springz #4 is able to return to block 1. I have played the CL through that point today, so the memory is fresh on that one. But now I have to get ready for tonight's rehearsal of "Murder on the Nile" by Agatha Christy, so may be done for the day ... and have not uploaded what I updated ... yet. I will likely do that when I return home after rehearsal is over.

[oldone]

I did figure that one out, but then I got stuck again with bricklayer down by the fort. He laid two brickz and gauntletz came along and broke them. There were now two (and only 2) red warps on the brick pads (one under a rolling ball). Gauntletz jumped into the first one and bricklayer stopped the ball on the second one. The problem now was that bricklayer had no warp to jump into. I waited for someone to come along but no luck. So I was jammed again because bricklayer has to hit his cps in order to go one with the game. Flaw?? I couldn't come up with a way out of this one.

[GooRoo]

Apr 6, 2010 12:26:21 GMT -8 oldone said:

I did figure that one out, but then I got stuck again with bricklayer down by the fort. He laid two brickz and gauntletz came along and broke them. There were now two (and only 2) red warps on the brick pads (one under a rolling ball). Gauntletz jumped into the first one and bricklayer stopped the ball on the second one. The problem now was that bricklayer had no warp to jump into. I waited for someone to come along but no luck. So I was jammed again because bricklayer has to hit his cps in order to go one with the game. Flaw?? I couldn't come up with a way out of this one.

There is a trick, relying on a 'bug' in the Gruntz game engine for Bricklayer to get to his Red Warp (which has a Brick under it) ... enter it via an Arrow !

[GooRoo]

Has anyone ever printed out the Soduko Solution and used it to help playing this Custom Level?