by Scott Walker
volIvox@coXpper.Qnet (remove caps)
v1.0 Initial version, contains Normal and Caution levels
v1.1 Added Danger levels, changed email, spell checked
v1.2 Added first ten levels of Overload
Feel free to distribute this FAQ as long as it remains unchanged, but it may be
translated into other languages. If you wish to use it or parts of it, do not
forget to credit me.
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General Hints
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* If a laser can be rotated, it most likely should be
* You can use an angled splitter as a refractor
* Working backwards can sometimes be easier
* Every component in the storage area will be used
* You can use color converters as a shield against unwanted colors
* Solutions should not depend on timing (for mines and slimes)
* Slimes like to go right until they can't anymore, then backtrack and start
exploring left turns. They will always eat an unsued mirror or TNT/barrel
if they pass next to it
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Normal
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Level 1 - Tonatiuh
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* Form a square around the filter
Level 2 - Landed
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* Let the slime eat a barrel
* Place a mirror in front of the other barrel first
Level 3 - Francais
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* The solution is symmetric
* Two beams will go through each filter
Level 4 - Split Mirror
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* Rotate the red laser to the right
* The red laser goes through the mirrors
Level 5 - Threeway
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* The solution is symmetric
* Some splitter will only refract, not split
Level 6 - Color Converter
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* Put a converter between each coin
Level 7 - Crocodile
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* Form an outer ring and an inner ring
* There will be two refractors adjacent to the laser
Level 8 - Less Than
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* Put a splitter at the junction of each V
* Split the white beam first
Level 9 - Small Problem
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* Split the white beam after the first white coin and reassemble before the
other white coin
* Route the blue beam so it does not conflict with the green coins
Level 10 - 2 Sides
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* There will be two converters on one side of each splitter, and one on the
other side
* The side coins needs two beams hitting them at once
Level 11 - Double Decker
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* Start at the laser and work forward
* Be sure to reuse mirrors since they are double sided
Level 12 - Fractal
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* The solution is almost symmetric
* All coins are hit by horizontal beams
Level 13 - Watch Out
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* Use an angled beam for the coin by the barrel
* Redirect a beam going toward the barrel
Level 14 - Pyramid
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* Both lasers will be rotated
* A red beam can pass through a yellow filter
* Combine green and blue beams from both lasers
Level 15 - Butterfly
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* Rotate the laser
* Use the blue and yellow filters
* All splitters come before any other player placed devices
Level 16 - Constraint
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* Do the colored coins first, then the white ones
* Recombine back to white and split again between colored coin groups
Level 17 - No Crosses
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* Rotate the lasers so they make vertical beams
* Do the yellow coin last
Level 18 - Purple
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* You'll need to rotate both prisms
* Split the beam. The left one goes around the outside, the right one around
the inside
Level 19 - Exact Machine
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* The solution is symmetric
* Form a square that goes through all the coins
Level 20 - Time's Up!
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* Place a prism to the left of the purple coin row
* The green beam will stop at a mirror
* Slit mirrors go in the purple and blue rows
Level 21 - Small House
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* Place the prism so the green beam hits the green coin
* The red and blue coins will be hit by horizontal beams
Level 22 - 5h!p 2 5h0r3
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* Refract the white beam
* Reuse the white beam refractor
* Do the cyan coin first
Level 23 - Cyan
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* Refract and split the green beam before the green coins
* Route the blue beam around the bottom and up the right
* Place the splitter first, then the lasers
* Skew the splitters until everything is placed, then put them in their final
positions
Level 25 - Entropy
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* Red reflects off the split mirror, green goes through it
* There is a prism on either side of the purple coin
Level 26 - Design Ur Own Level
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* You'll need two runs of cyan that can hold four coins each
* Each green beam only needs to go through one splitter
Level 27 - In And Out
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* Purple is done last
* Spiral the read beam around the outside, blue around the inside
Level 28 - Rotato Potato
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* Everything gets rotated
* Two refractors get reused
* The blue beam hits the white coin from the right
* The other two beams hit the white coin from the left
Level 29 - Waterfall
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* The first green and blue coins use beams directly from the prism
* The green beam will go through both split mirrors
Level 30 - Good Lookin'
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* Do not rotate the laser
* Enter through the bottom
* Use the color converters after the cyan and purple coins
* Set everything up before directing the beam in
* Use the filters to block colored beam from hitting the barrels
Level 3 - Just Merge
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* Use one prism as a mirror
Level 4 - 3 Way Trick
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* The splitter won't face the way you think it should
* Reverse the beam back on itself
Level 5 - Guards
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* Notice how each color can only hit the coins from one direction
* One refractor is reused
* The cyan beam enters from the top, the other beams from the bottom
* White filters to red
* First, move two lasers so the right slime eats the right-most barrel
* Use the two lasers that are adjacent to each other to trap the mine up top
between diagonal beams
Level 7 - 2 Diagonals
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* Do the white coins first, then the colored ones
* All the split mirrors go in the center
* Make sure not to hit the darkened coins
Level 8 - White
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* Change the direction of the red and blue beams
Level 9 - Bloody
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* The first thing used is a mirror
* A diagonal beam will end at a mirror
* Hug the outline of the red filter blob
Level 10 - Polarizers
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* Working backwards is easier for this one
* The beam enters and leaves the perimeter diagonally
* Don't put anything between the red laser and the coin
* Have the prism put out cyan
Level 12 - Back Combining
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* The first component is the splitting refractor
* You will have to send some beams back upon themselves
* Don't use the splitting refractor to split
Level 13 - Xmas Forest
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* Angle the laser to the lower right
* The blue coin will be hit with a diagonal beam
* Form yellow with beams coming from opposite directions
Level 14 - Breakout
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* You will reuse both refractors
* One refractor goes inside with the lasers, one goes outside
* Both coins will be hit with horizontal beams
* You will need to cross the bottom line of one-ways three times
Level 15 - Glass Houses
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* The beam layout is symmetrical, but the component layout is not
* Two beams end at the split refractor
* In the empty middle column of cells, the second one up from the bottom does
not contain anything
Level 16 - 2*Reflect
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* All of the mirrors are angled the same way
Level 17 - The Grid
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* You will only use two "cells" of the grid
* The white beam goes through a slit mirror
* Red and green beams go through the same yellow filter
* Do not put the prism in the same "cell" as the laser
Level 18 - Double Up
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* The title refers to what you should do with the refractors
* Do the red beam and coins first, then the blue
Level 19 - Fortress
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* The double mirror goes in the middle of the fortress
* Both sides use basically the same layout, but one is 45 degrees off from the
other
* Get the yellow coins out of the way first
Level 20 - Primary Edge
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* Think about how to get the green coins and work from there
* Two beams will go through each white filter
* The red and blue beam pattern makes seven squares
Level 21 - Level Te
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* The locations of the double mirrors should be pretty obvious
* The solution is symmetrical
Level 22 - Cross And Merge
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* Rotate the left laser once clockwise
* There is a prism between the white and red coins
* All components except one mirror are in a line
Level 23 - Dice
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* Think about where green needs to go
* Both prisms are on the outermost corners of the dice
* Split the white beam first
Level 24 - Omega Corp.
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* Do red, green, and blue first, then the purple coins
* Split the purple beam right after creating it
Level 25 - Primalvault
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* Split the white beam first
* The red and blue coins get beams directly off of prisms
* The green beams reflect around quite a bit
Level 26 - Antenna
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* No beams go through the middle of the split mirrors
* The splitter/combiner has beams going left and down
Level 27 - Mixing Fun
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* Split each green beam between the coins
* The prisms go next to the bottom coins
* Refractors are in the same row as the top coins
Level 28 - Advertisement
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* Two beams will go through the filter
* The blue beam will not be refracted
Level 29 - Cave Spider
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* Split the beam first and hit the white coin
* Send a purple beam up through the bottom purple filter
* Use the prism as a filter instead of a prism
* Not all lasers will be at an angle
* All filters are hit at an angle
* One white filter will have a beam going through it
Level 2 - Blowout
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* Make it so you can move the lower left mirror first
* Use the prism as beam blocker
* Trap the mines on the right side
Level 3 - TV
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* The solution is symmetrical
* Put one ways between the red/blue and purple coins
* Refract before the purple coins
Level 4 - Flowers
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* Angle the white beam before using the prism
* All coins are hit by angle beams
Level 5 - 2 Lines
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* All coins are hit by vertical beams
* There is a prism directly below the bottom cyan coin
* The yellow coins are isolated by two oneways
* You need to redirect the white beam before the first prism
Level 6 - Mirror City
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* Notice the group of refractors in the upper middle
* Use two refractors in a row to get the beam direction you need
* Try working backwards from the coin
Level 7 - Cut The Red Wire
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* Use components that face the wrong way to block the lasers, freeing other
components. Splitters work well.
* Notice that you can rotate one of the prisms
Level 8 - Light Show
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* Do the top coin first, then the right one
* Use a prism to make a white beam for the first coin
* Beams coming from opposite directions will spin the last coin
Level 9 - Blake Snake
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* Find a place where the beams from the prism will continue uninterrupted
* Use all the refractors to lead the white beam to the prism
Level 10 - 4 Coins
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* Refract the white beam first
* Only the red coin will not have a refractor right before it
* Split the red and green beams after the prism
* Things are a tangled mess to the upper right of the laser
Level 11 - Construction
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* The bottom laser points down
* One prism is used for each laser, the last iS for combining red and blue
* The top laser points to the upper right
* The beam for the blue coins is used in making purple
Level 12 - SM
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* Look at the space between the cyan/purple and white coins. What looks like
a good thing to put there?
* Put the prism above the cyan filter
* You will need do back combine some colors
Level 13 - Central Filter
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* Point the lasers toward the filter
* Use the prisms to route the blue beam around
* There are no components along the central beam going to the white coin
* The lower beams hit the upper coins
* The filters reside in the row with the same colored coin
Level 15 - Broken Zeros
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* You'll make two rectangles
* Place the refractor so you can reuse it
* Color convert right after the splitter/combiner
Level 16 - Ecstasy
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* The beam out of the laser does not hit the coin above it directly
* The splitter/combiner goes in the gap in the E's arm
* The prism lies somewhere above the red coin on the right
Level 17 - Waves
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* The prism must go in area that is three space wide
* Use only mirrors to snake the white beam to this area
* Split the green beam
Level 18 - Elemental
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* Figure out how to redirect the beam from the laser to the right without
using the first splitter/combiner.
* Place the first splitter/combiner by the rightmost one to free it and the
mirror.
Level 19 - Exchanger
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* You will need to use move some pieces back and forth to block the beam
while moving others
* Turn the beam and split first
* One splitter/combiner will only be used to bend a beam and not split it
Level 20 - Prism Complex
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* Don't move the green laser
* There will be a rectangle of different colors
* There is a prism to the immediate left of the white coin
Level 21 - Barb Wire
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* Reuse all the refractors
* There will be a square in the middle section that is mostly red
* The only component outside the middle area is a mirror on the left side
* Only the green coins are hit by horizontal beams
Level 22 - Red 2 White
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* Pass the red beam through a prism, then split it
* A green beam from one prism will enter the other prism
* There will be a blue beam that dosen't hit anything
Level 23 - Laser Rain
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* Some blue beams will go down and then back up
* The blue beams that go up will help spin the purple and red coins
Level 24 - Night Eyes
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* Do the yellow coins first, then the red ones
* Stop the red beam at the end with a mirror
* Use the prism as a filter, not a splitter
Level 25 - Highways
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* The white beam spirals around the outside before hitting the prism
* Split the blue beam
* The blue beam goes through most of the one ways
* Only rotate the green laser
* Split the green beam at some point
* There is a prism above, below,and in the middle of the purple and red coins
Level 28 - Blob
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* Put a splitter in the middle of the coins
* Only one refractor will be reused
* None of the double mirrors are reused
* The prism is adjacent to the second splitter and both are angled
Level 29 - Oil Slick
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* Notice how there are only two ways into the "slick". Split the beam and use
both.
* Prisms are the first thing used inside the "slick".
* The yellow beam goes through the split mirror.
Level 30 - High Voltage
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* The top laser only hits the top white coin
* One green beam will go through two green coins and one will only go through
one green coin
* There will be four prisms in a row
Level 1 - Alien
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* Refractors go in the gap of the long diagonal lines of coins
* A splitter goes below the middle barrel
* There is a splitter in the bottom row of the screen
* One mirror will reflect a beam as well as stop another beam
Level 2 - Inside
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* A refractor goes "inside" and refracts the red and green beams
* The blue beam is split twice
* All corner coins are hit by beams angled from lower left to upper right
* Most of the components are not close to the coins
Level 3 - Humdinger
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* You will only split the green beam
* The splitters will stop the red and blue beams
Level 4 - Lock & Keys
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* Release the slimes one at a time
* Those mirrors that look like they server no purpose actually do. Maybe they
reflect a beam back on itself?
* Only one of the white lasers will be used in the final solution.
* Each slime will eat a mirror by each blue coin.
Level 5 - Kosovo
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* You'll need to isolate the mines somewhere. Maybe the slime can help create
a path?
* It's easier to move the mines in two steps.
* Have the slime eat the top left middle barrel, then move the mines around it.
Level 6 - Criss Cross
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* There is a prism between each pair of filters
* You need to refract the top green laser
* No beams pass through the cyan filter, but two beams pass through each of
the other filters.
* A blue beam from one prism will go into another prism
Level 7 - 3 Walls & A Gateway
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* Two prisms go under the bottom filter wall, while one prism goes above the
solid wall
* Pass a cyan beam and a red beam through the top filter wall
* Nothing goes bewteen the top filter wall and the solid wall
Level 8 - Railway Station
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* Only rotate the green laser
* The one-way goes next to the blue coin
* The blue beam will need to loop back toward the blue laser
* You will need to seperate the green and red beams, then recombine them at
one point
Level 9 - Vee
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* The solution is symmetrical
* Split the laser that is pointed up
* The diagonal beams are not reflected at all
* No beams go through any of the filters
Level 10 - Spilled Paint
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* Try working with the blue beam first
* The two blue coins in a vertical line are hit by a vertical blue beam
* The two yellow coins in a horizontal line with a gap are hit by a horizontal
yellow beam
