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TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun

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Name: TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
Type: Misc

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DarkOne

Started: April 03, 2013, 12:59 AM
Expire time: April 24, 2013, 01:30 AM

EXPIRED
You can still submit your time. But you won't recieve the 4 points as it is not the current challenge anymore.

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TCB63

Description:
Does your worm have the perseverance to climb to infinity? Find out if you can exceed the altitude of the great Longcat on his day out paddling in the Pacific ocean!

Rules and objectives:

- Start by placing one worm on one of Longcat's feet.
- End by standing your worm on one of Longcat's ears.
- Use shotguns to build a path to the finish.
- You have 40 turns to complete this challenge.

Longcat's shotgun by

Bloopy

640 x 1512, PNG, 71.53 KB, Downloaded 598 time(s)

Best Record: 27 turns by

van

_ssm_

Statik

barman

Incog

Pending times: 0
Number of members participated: 11
Number of Records: 16

	Player	Record	Map Points	Posted	Overall Points
1st	van	27t	20	April 03, 2013, 03:10 PM	1,119	Downloads Downloaded 479 time(s). 35 members and about 444 guests have downloaded this replay. Dulek April 03, 2013, 03:18 PM Krezo April 03, 2013, 03:27 PM DarkOne April 03, 2013, 03:41 PM Worm_gamer April 03, 2013, 05:42 PM Axel April 03, 2013, 06:15 PM Dmitry April 03, 2013, 06:34 PM Husk April 03, 2013, 07:04 PM Dub-c April 03, 2013, 10:31 PM GreeN April 03, 2013, 10:49 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:12 PM Mablak April 04, 2013, 05:33 AM Kyho April 04, 2013, 01:14 PM KBA3u April 04, 2013, 01:57 PM VoK April 04, 2013, 03:36 PM HusH April 04, 2013, 08:55 PM sm0k April 05, 2013, 03:56 AM Ramone April 06, 2013, 12:57 PM Xrayez April 06, 2013, 05:43 PM Statik April 08, 2013, 05:50 PM Csongi April 09, 2013, 11:31 PM Casso April 13, 2013, 01:01 PM barman April 14, 2013, 06:51 PM Bonhert April 14, 2013, 10:00 PM Desetroyah May 04, 2013, 10:10 AM MycyxPatroN June 24, 2013, 12:27 PM Uzurpator October 13, 2014, 06:59 AM BoolC February 24, 2017, 08:09 PM AduN February 24, 2017, 08:47 PM WTF-8 February 25, 2017, 06:22 AM reyalP June 11, 2017, 12:18 AM
1st	_ssm_	27t	20	April 05, 2013, 08:23 AM	7,483	Downloads Downloaded 358 time(s). 11 members and about 347 guests have downloaded this replay. Worm_gamer April 05, 2013, 08:39 AM DarkOne April 05, 2013, 11:39 PM Deadcode April 05, 2013, 11:40 PM VoK April 06, 2013, 02:58 PM Dub-c April 08, 2013, 06:26 PM Uzurpator April 09, 2013, 08:43 AM Csongi April 09, 2013, 11:32 PM Dmitry April 13, 2013, 08:24 AM WTF-8 February 25, 2017, 06:22 AM kirill470 June 01, 2024, 07:53 AM
	_ssm_	28t	0	April 03, 2013, 06:44 AM	7,483	Downloads Downloaded 347 time(s). 6 members and about 341 guests have downloaded this replay. Hussar April 03, 2013, 07:19 AM jot April 03, 2013, 02:47 PM DarkOne April 03, 2013, 03:34 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM VoK April 04, 2013, 03:37 PM
1st	Statik	27t	20	April 08, 2013, 06:33 PM	4,895	Downloads Downloaded 341 time(s). 7 members and about 334 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 08, 2013, 08:04 PM Dub-c April 09, 2013, 06:41 AM BoolC July 17, 2014, 02:18 PM Deadcode February 20, 2017, 11:44 PM WTF-8 February 25, 2017, 06:22 AM
1st	barman	27t	20	April 14, 2013, 06:54 PM	1,782	Downloads Downloaded 379 time(s). 4 members and about 375 guests have downloaded this replay. Worm_gamer April 14, 2013, 07:03 PM DarkOne April 16, 2013, 05:50 PM Deadcode February 20, 2017, 11:45 PM WTF-8 February 25, 2017, 06:22 AM
1st	Incog	27t	20	April 22, 2013, 04:03 PM	1,350	Downloads Downloaded 559 time(s). 4 members and about 555 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 22, 2013, 10:18 PM Deadcode February 20, 2017, 11:45 PM WTF-8 February 25, 2017, 06:22 AM lales February 27, 2017, 03:54 AM
2nd	DarkOne	28t	15	April 03, 2013, 01:31 AM	1,343	Downloads Downloaded 526 time(s). 19 members and about 507 guests have downloaded this replay. skOrpuz April 03, 2013, 04:10 AM Hussar April 03, 2013, 07:18 AM Worm_gamer April 03, 2013, 08:07 AM Chelsea April 03, 2013, 09:19 AM Statik April 03, 2013, 09:23 AM Uzurpator April 03, 2013, 09:33 AM huskov April 03, 2013, 09:48 AM Random00 April 03, 2013, 10:53 AM MonkeyIsland April 03, 2013, 11:23 AM Kyho April 03, 2013, 11:44 AM barman April 03, 2013, 01:27 PM Casso April 03, 2013, 02:20 PM jot April 03, 2013, 02:46 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM VoK April 04, 2013, 03:37 PM
3rd	Ramone	28t	10	April 07, 2013, 12:55 PM	1,093	Downloads Downloaded 454 time(s). 3 members and about 451 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 07, 2013, 05:18 PM Ramone April 07, 2013, 05:24 PM Deadcode April 08, 2013, 05:35 PM
	Worm_gamer	28t	0	April 22, 2013, 05:01 PM	3,739	Downloads Downloaded 442 time(s). 1 members and about 441 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 22, 2013, 10:20 PM
	Worm_gamer	29t	0	April 06, 2013, 04:50 PM	3,739	Downloads Downloaded 447 time(s). 2 members and about 445 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 06, 2013, 07:23 PM Casso April 13, 2013, 01:01 PM
	Worm_gamer	31t	0	April 03, 2013, 05:35 PM	3,739	Downloads Downloaded 435 time(s). 4 members and about 431 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 03, 2013, 07:34 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM VoK April 04, 2013, 03:37 PM
	Worm_gamer	32t	0	April 03, 2013, 09:04 AM	3,739	Downloads Downloaded 460 time(s). 3 members and about 457 guests have downloaded this replay. Chelsea April 03, 2013, 09:17 AM DarkOne April 03, 2013, 03:37 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM
4th	VoK	30t	5	April 06, 2013, 03:13 PM	1,068	Downloads Downloaded 561 time(s). 1 members and about 560 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 06, 2013, 07:25 PM
5th	Husk	32t	4	April 03, 2013, 07:17 PM	4,979	Downloads Downloaded 319 time(s). 3 members and about 316 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 03, 2013, 07:36 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM
6th	Sbaffo	33t	3	April 03, 2013, 10:57 AM	1,868	Downloads Downloaded 586 time(s). 5 members and about 581 guests have downloaded this replay. DarkOne April 03, 2013, 03:40 PM Deadcode April 03, 2013, 11:13 PM VoK April 04, 2013, 03:37 PM Casso April 13, 2013, 01:03 PM kirill470 June 01, 2024, 07:53 AM

Statistics of this challenge

	Points	Overall Points
Russia	50	19,507
Poland	50	6,675
Finland	25	6,072
Spain	25	2,465
Bulgaria	20	3,907
Serbia	20	2,182
Netherlands	20	1,436
Italy	9	3,016

	Points	Overall Points
che	45	8,530
TdC	45	7,569
b2b	30	5,646
pd	29	1,189
RS	25	1,317
FoS	25	3,648
rM	25	2,979
AeF	25	1,485
fp	25	3,920
RoH	25	3,848
sm	25	5,640
dt	25	10,676
WQDB	20	1,363
dS	20	11,476
NfBX	20	4,811
FwB	15	1,043
69	9	1,061
WM	9	1,248

	Points	Overall Points
van	25	1,119
Incog	25	1,350
_ssm_	25	7,483
Statik	25	4,895
barman	25	1,782
DarkOne	20	1,343
Worm_gamer	20	3,739
Ramone	20	1,093
VoK	15	1,068
Husk	10	4,979
Sbaffo	9	1,868

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Re: Challenge #218, TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun

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February 24, 2017, 08:02 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2017, 08:11 PM by Deadcode

Back in 2008 I did a tool-assisted run of this challenge, and was disappointed to see that it only resulted in a 27 turn run, just like the top non-tool-assisted replays. At the time I thought it was impossible to do better than 27 turns.

When this challenge was hosted here on TUS and there was a 5-way tie for first place at 27 turns, that only confirmed my belief that 27 was the best possible.

I was wrong. Here it is TASed in 23 turns: 2017-02-24 19.39.24 {TA} 2017-02-24 18.27.41 [TCB Challenge 63 - 23 turns] 0xDEADC0DE.WAgame

The trick is

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