Orbox B

March 30, 2006 11:05 PM

Friday Flash Fun: Orbox B, the sequel to Orbox. [previously]
posted by knave (20 comments total)

knave, I hate you. I was just about to go home.
posted by tellurian at 11:09 PM on March 30, 2006

i didn't know the 1st one i checked rapidly but jumped to the sequel immediately. i play though about 10 puzzles i found them pretty interesting to solve.
posted by zenzizi at 11:31 PM on March 30, 2006

I'm glad to see this link is making the rounds. This game is so addictive and fun. I'm currently stuck on level 25. They get really hard at around 16, although there are still the occasional easy one (I think 20 was a joke).
posted by patr1ck at 11:31 PM on March 30, 2006

This was probably posted forever ago on the front page, but Dyson's Telescope Game is a similar puzzle game. In fact, it's pretty good for a company that makes vacuums.

The names of the games seemed to have changed since I last played in October of 2003, but at the time the hardest Grand Master level could be solved using this solution. [Self-link to images of the solution. Click on the images to advance the sequence.]
posted by sequential at 11:50 PM on March 30, 2006

Blast you all. I'm stuck on 6.
posted by salmacis at 11:59 PM on March 30, 2006

6 was hard, as was 17.
posted by knave at 12:02 AM on March 31, 2006

knave, I hate you. I was just about to go home...no, wait, I am home. Shit. Must. Stop. Must...anyway, I'd never seen the first Orbox, but both of these remind me of the Dyson game, like sequential said, and Cubeoban discussed here previously . Some part of my brain is awash in dopamine.
posted by tula at 12:24 AM on March 31, 2006

knave, I still hate you. I'm at home now and I need to cook dinner.
posted by tellurian at 12:50 AM on March 31, 2006

*crawls in a hole and hides*
posted by knave at 1:03 AM on March 31, 2006

Yay!
posted by beerbajay at 2:59 AM on March 31, 2006

It's okay knave you can come out of your hole now. MetaFilter has dragged me back from the game.
posted by tellurian at 5:01 AM on March 31, 2006

He should stay in there; I'm after him now.
posted by beerbajay at 5:32 AM on March 31, 2006

ed, that is horribly true and now I hate YOU and I love knave.
BTW What level are you people on now?
posted by tellurian at 8:53 AM on March 31, 2006

26, it's not treating me too well.
posted by beerbajay at 10:20 AM on March 31, 2006

So, who else lost their points to an infinite loop on 16?

17 was fun though.
posted by H-Bar at 12:17 PM on March 31, 2006

It's in space!
And it makes woosh noises!
This is great.
posted by Blue Stone at 1:41 PM on March 31, 2006

I'm up to 28... 26 was easy for me! But I struggled like hell on 21 - 25. What do you know.

PW for 28 is kid668.
posted by knave at 5:50 PM on March 31, 2006

Just got to 30... password is orb003.
posted by knave at 8:21 PM on March 31, 2006

i'm still staring at 26... i played some of the later levels (cheater!) but can't figure this one out =(
posted by beerbajay at 6:42 AM on April 1, 2006

Nevermind. I got it now. It was hard.
posted by beerbajay at 6:51 AM on April 1, 2006