Cubeoban

January 19, 2006 11:22 AM

Cubeoban -- Arrange the colored blocks so that they cover the colored dots. (Flash.)
posted by Gator (37 comments total)

Gave up on Level 3.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:34 AM on January 19, 2006

nice find. attempting level 6 now.
posted by pmbuko at 11:43 AM on January 19, 2006

Fun, addictive, will drive me crazy. Kinda reminds me of the Dyson game discussed previously here.
posted by tula at 11:48 AM on January 19, 2006

Leel 5 is where I stopped seeing the solution right away. Proceeding with the headbanging against it.
posted by Four Flavors at 11:58 AM on January 19, 2006

Level 11 is evil
posted by pmbuko at 12:07 PM on January 19, 2006

11 is easy. Just throw the blocks all in the dip on the right to fill that one pesky dot, then put the blocks on the outside and 'step' around the outside to get them back to line up to where they're needed.
posted by devbrain at 12:20 PM on January 19, 2006

I don't know about Level 11, but Level 10 - JOE - is a pain in my butt. There's 30 friggin' blocks here all of a sudden.
posted by JWright at 12:20 PM on January 19, 2006

JOE was annoying, and almost made me give up (cuz it was annoying, not hard), but it gets a little better. not much.
posted by mrgrimm at 12:22 PM on January 19, 2006

If you want to see what the fuss is about, Level 11 code is 63528.
posted by toftflin at 12:22 PM on January 19, 2006

I take it back. Level 10 isn't that hard.
posted by JWright at 12:24 PM on January 19, 2006

i figured out 11. now on 14.
posted by pmbuko at 12:24 PM on January 19, 2006

he must have gotten bored after 11. The levels after that are much easier -- now on 20
posted by pmbuko at 12:40 PM on January 19, 2006

Yeah, it's actually a bit dull after a while. They don't seem to get any harder. I'm on 20 as well.
posted by JWright at 12:47 PM on January 19, 2006

10 looks to be a bit tedious. Fun game.
posted by Four Flavors at 1:10 PM on January 19, 2006

like it!
posted by MinPin at 1:54 PM on January 19, 2006

30 levels total. They do get a bit more interesting between 22-30, though there are some gimmes in there too.
posted by mrgrimm at 2:09 PM on January 19, 2006

My mind finally went completely numb at 23. 71813.
posted by The Monkey at 2:15 PM on January 19, 2006

Something that might conceivably make it more entertaining would be seeing how other people solved a level once you'd solved it yourself.
posted by The Monkey at 2:15 PM on January 19, 2006

I'm stuck on 8
posted by talitha_kumi at 2:39 PM on January 19, 2006

That was fun. Thanks.
posted by kyleg at 3:21 PM on January 19, 2006

Similar to the eighties classic "Sukoban". I lost some days to that and I suspect I'm about to do the same here. I rattled through to level 7 fairly easily. Think I'll stop for now before I lose my evening.
posted by Decani at 4:28 PM on January 19, 2006

That is a lot of fun, but my finely-honed sokoban reflexes are a liability - I keep overlooking useful moves that would lead to a stuck position in sokoban.

I think what I want to do now is design some levels for this thing.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:28 PM on January 19, 2006

I'm stuck on 3 - are there some moves other than pushing a block in a direction until it hits something that I don't know about?
posted by Artw at 5:07 PM on January 19, 2006

The Monkey, I got stuck there for a little while too. I can't really remember how I did it, but I think the last block needs to be the top yellow (from the left side).

Yeah, I just got it again. Put the lower-most yellow block in first. That's a big help. My last move was pulling out the left yellow block in the cross out to the left wall, to stop the final yellow block, which slid into the top slot.

are there some moves other than pushing a block in a direction until it hits something that I don't know about?

Using blocks to stop the other blocks in good spots. You can move two blocks all over the place (in particular, round and round the outside frame).
posted by mrgrimm at 5:23 PM on January 19, 2006

Sokoban. Yes. That's what I meant. Not Sukoban. Too much Sudoku has confused me.
posted by Decani at 5:27 PM on January 19, 2006

woot
posted by es_de_bah at 5:35 PM on January 19, 2006

Addictive. Taking a break from level 10 to come back and say thanks.
posted by Meredith at 5:44 PM on January 19, 2006

Yeah, I'm not entirely convinced 26 is solvable. Rrr.
posted by Meredith at 6:35 PM on January 19, 2006

I thought level 3 was impossible for a while, but once I broke through that I was able to sort of get the internal logic of the levels and finished it without too much trouble. (By the way, those of you who were stuck on level 3, think "rolling.") Fun!
posted by jacobm at 9:48 PM on January 19, 2006

I think I've figured out level 10, but don't have the patience at the moment to go through all the pushing and pulling involved. Better to leave it until I'm at work.
posted by aladfar at 10:32 PM on January 19, 2006

loved it! made it through 30, but killed my whole evening.
Thanks!
posted by j at 10:41 PM on January 19, 2006

fuck, stuck on 26 also
posted by number9dream at 10:42 PM on January 19, 2006

i'm on level 90. slackers.
posted by Hat Maui at 2:56 AM on January 20, 2006

woo! just did all 30. wish there was an easy way to backtrack through the solved levels - I didn't note the numbers as I did each one.
posted by devbrain at 9:05 AM on January 20, 2006

Nice. But very difficult for me as a colorblind person. Down with annoyingly washed out colors in color-based games!
posted by Harry at 2:28 PM on January 20, 2006

Yeah, I'm not entirely convinced 26 is solvable. Rrr.

Get a block to the very middle of the top row, and then another block underneath it. Use the last one to land on top the free floating piece of the level, then head to the left, down, and back to the lowest dot. Then just move the other two down.
posted by mrgrimm at 2:49 PM on January 20, 2006

Yeah, after spending just about as long on 26 last night as I did on levels 1-25 combined, I figured it was time for bed (or course, when I closed my eyes, all I could see was level 26 and pushing the blocks around in my mind anyway, kind of like when you've been playing tetris too long). Got up this morning and solved it in under 2 minutes, and finished through level 30 before I went to work.

I want more, now.
posted by Meredith at 3:18 PM on January 20, 2006