Mine\Crystal Pair Identification

Overview

Platinum and Gold mines rely on determining which crystals are linked to other crystals in order to properly mine their ores. The method described below will allow you to quickly determine which crystals are linked to which other ones.

Rules

First the rules of how the crystal links work:

• The Crystal that you will need to know the link for is determines by whichever crystal on the mine is different in hue from the rest.
• Each crystal only links to one other crystal
• No crystal is linked to more than one time
• Crystals may or may not link to themselves instead of another crystal

Crystal Link Identification for Platinum Mines

Before starting make yourself a small chart on a peice of scratch paper like this:

1 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
3 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
6 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

The first column is the number of the crystal you will be looking at each time you pull and the row of numbers after it are the crystals available to be possible links. As you determine that a particular crystal is not a valid link you will cross it off the list. If you determine that a particular cyrstal IS a valid link you will cirlcle it and cross that crystal off as possible links for the other crystals. Dont be worried if this doesnt make immediate sense as I will give detailed examples below to illustrate the principle.