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I Wanna Lockpick

A strange puzzle game about matching colored keys and doors. · By LAWatson

Level 9-B with mental arithmetic

A topic by JustImagineIt created Dec 15, 2022 Views: 363 Replies: 5
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Level 9-B is a classic mental arithmetic problem, where you're given the end goal of earning a full 13337 keys. And I would fully expect someone to pull out a calculator, or at least a notepad, to do the complicated divisions. Well, I usually do anyways, but I've been challenging myself by attempting to solve the puzzles completely in my head.

booyah

For anyone who doubts, I would be happy to "show my work". I would love to know if you too were able to solve this level completely in your head.

Developer

The thing about math problems is that some times there's no faster way to solve them other than to do the math. I think this is actually one of those instances, although the means of producing an answer by hand can actually be quite quick. You can start with a wrong answer and then tweak it until it becomes a correct one, and even generate a comprehensive list of solutions after you've got a correct one. Either way, congrats on solving!

yes! That's exactly what I did :)  Maybe I should rot47 the solution?  so I'll do that just to be safe about spoilers. How I solved it:  D:?46 E96C6 2C6 6=6G6? 3@I6D W@C2?86nnX 2?5 7@FCE66? 3@I6D E92E 2C6 3=F6n[ 2?5 :E ?665D E@ DF> FA E@ `bbbf[ x HC@E6 ``I Z `cJ l `bbbf]  p7E6C E92E[ x HC@E6 :E @FE 2D `cJ l `bbbf \ ``I  2?5 C65F465 :E E@ 2 =:?62C 6BF2E:@? J l `bbbf^`c \ ``^`cI] p7E6C E92E x =@@<65 7@C E96 7:CDE H9@=6 ?F>36C D@=FE:@? E92E H@C<65 H9:49 x E9:?< H2D H96? I l ``] p7E6C E92E[ x H2D 23=6 E@ D66 E92E 2E E92E A@:?E 6G6CJ `c >@C6 G2=F6D @7 I H@F=5 36 6?@F89 E@ 4C62E6 2 H9@=6 ?F>36C H96? 5:G:5:?8 3J `c W`c^`c l `X H9:49 :D 2=D@ E96 D2>6 2D 564C62D:?8 J 3J `` @7 :ED @H? G2=F6] qFE E9:D H2D 2== C62==J C62==J 92C5 7@C >6 E@ 7:8FC6 @FE 9@H E@ 7:?5 E9@D6 7C@> 2 =:?62C 6BF2E:@?P 

yeah but

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People don't seem to understand, so...

Look guys,

NO HANDS

Spoilers: https://i.imgur.com/y0aFB7S.png is my solution

I think that's amazing. I just wanted to share how I did it, as I had to learn from scratch and paper-math is still really exciting and impressive! I think it's really cool you can do a lot of mental math/arithmetic or whatever method you used :)

I don't think I misunderstood you, I just replied to Watson with their train of thought about how there's a way that when finding an answer, you can generate countless other answers.