Test of the Pathmaker

Overview

Design a miniature system of aqueduct towers, and challenge other to connect them in a loop. Living mossy towers (green) require the pipe to pass straight through, but turn adjacent. Dead (black) towers require the pipe to turn in place, but extend straight.

Principles

The Test and Principles can be started from a University of Thought at level 6.

Principles of the Pathmaker will lead you through making one of each type of item needed to build a Pathmaker. Of course, you may trade for the materials, bypassing all of those steps.

• Dig a Cuttable Stone at a Hole
• Cut a Stone on a Rock Saw
• Cut a Hexas Plate Amethyst
• Cut a Looking Glass Jade
• Cut a Symmetry Turquoise
• Cut a Dragyn's Eye Citrine
• Mine a Huge Diamond
• Mine a Medium Topaz
• Mine Silver
• Build a Pathmaker
• Open your design for Judging
• Tear down your Pathmaker, OR do the following:
  • Have 7 Judges solve and rate your Pathmaker
  • Design rated Good by most judges
• All of the above, OR solve three recent winning Pathmakers

Don't Panic!

All steps regarding cutting a gem and mining gems do not need to be resolved. Once a Pathmaker has been built and Opened for judging, all Construction related steps are automatically completed if not already!

Demonstrate the Principle

• 2 Hexas Plate cut Amethyst
• 2 Dragyn's Eye cut Citrine
• 2 Huge Diamond
• 10 Medium Topaz
• 100 Silver Wire

Demonstrated by McArine in Shabbat Ab on 09-03-22.

Designing a Puzzle

Cost to build

• 300 Cut Stone
• 3 Hexas Plate cut Amethyst
• 3 Looking Glass cut Jade
• 2 Symmetry cut Turquoise
• 1 Dragyn's Eye cut Citrine
• 2 Huge Diamond
• 12 Medium Topaz
• 60 Silver Wire

Built in a Small Construction Site Under Test Menu

Solving a Puzzle

The test description isn't very clear about the rules. Here's some clarification.

A Pathmaker puzzle is played on a two-dimensional grid. Initially, each square either contains a black tower, green tower, or is empty.

You may place pipe segments on a square, including squares containing a tower, by clicking on the square. Clicking on a square again cycles through the possible pipe options for that square:

• Straight pipe, top-to-bottom.
• Straight pipe, left-to-right.
• Pipe with a 90 degree bend (4 possible orientations).

The object of the puzzle is to join all towers into a single closed loop, while obeying these rules:

• All pipes must connect up correctly to adjacent squares
• You may only have one pipe segment per square, i.e. you cannot have a "cross" pipe.
• Pipes on a square with a green tower must be straight.
• Pipes on a square with a black tower must be a 90 degree bend.
• One of the pipes connected immediately adjacent to a green tower must be a 90 degree bend. (Note: the rules only require one of the two to be a bend, but both can be bends if you like).
• The two pipes connected immediately adjacent to a black tower must be straight.

The Pathmaker will not let you place pipes that violate these rules.

Pathmaker Locations

• Green for recognized (passed) puzzles (use "Gr" prefix on pin)
• Red for unrecognized (unpassed) puzzles (use "Rd" prefix on pin)
  
  

Region	Coordinates	Designer	Passed	Remarks	RL Date Opened
Saqqarah	785, -757	Fryoj	Yes	East of CS(by Essence of Harmony)
Shabbat Ab	1472, 1998	McArine	Yes	Close to UArch
Falcon Bay	4297, -647	Xaxyx	Yes	Just south of CS
Stillwater	1703, 3690	Tokiryu	Yes	Just south of cs
Meroe	846, -3645	Malard	No	30 coords northeast of CS (Next to Essence of Harmony)
Meroe	830, -3624	Atheus	No	30 coords north of CS
Meroe	821, -3624	Oni	No	30 coords north of cs
Meroe	811, -3653	Katezinha	No	West of CS
Meroe	808, -3649	Jadzi	No	West of CS
Meroe	823, -3606	SunnyOne	Yes	North of CS along the road	May 11, 2009
Stillwater	1714, 3712	Usia	No	Just east of cs
Stillwater	1712, 3711	Keko	Yes	Just east of cs
Stillwater	1718, 3713	Yendorhut	No	Just east of cs
Stillwater	1701, 3690	TheMazeEcho	No	South of the CS	6 June 2009
Saqqarah	784, -755	Brucette	No	East of CS(by Essence of Harmony)
Queen's Retreat	583, -6152	Traak	No	Just north of CS
Queen's Retreat	578, -6154	Shazza	No	Just north of CS
Falcon Bay	4307, -584	Ariella	No	50 coords north of CS
Falcon Bay	4305, -587	Pascalito	No	50 coords north of CS
Queen's Retreat	578, -6151	Wampak	No	Just north of CS
Queen's Retreat	576, -6147	Serkwati	No	Just north of CS
Queen's Retreat	520, -5970	Arame	No	Near SArt north of CS
Shabbat Ab	1472, 2002	Daniels	No	Close to UArch
Shabbat Ab	1375, 1681	Lill	No	South of CS near SArt
Shabbat Ab	1425, 1820	Lejoni	No	Next to ELUG Guild Hall (North of CS)	28 Apr 2009
Shabbat Ab	1415, 1985	Trillian	No	East of SHarm	24 May 2009
Shabbat Ab	1380, 1710	Numaris	Yes	South of the CS, at the top of the hill	7 June 2009
Shabbat Ab	1465, 1952	Robare	No	South of the S of Harmony along the road	13 July 2009
Falcon Bay	4292,-599	Udjai	Yes	Just North of the CS	15 July 2009
Sinai	3232, 4384	Psychodelica	No	Close to CS	22 July 2009
Sinai	3231, 4382	EvilSnowman	Yes	Close to CS

Winning Pathmakers

Semi-automatic Recognized Puzzles list