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Cut Your Losses - Mirror Puzzle - need help

XavianXavian
edited August 2010 in Puzzle Agent - Hints and Tips
Has anyone found a way to beat "Cut your losses"?

I've gone through all the hints and still can't give it a solution it will accept.

I've found two different paths that go between all the players and the mirrors while avoiding the brick walls but it won't accept either.

Also one mirror has no path that can go through it. The best I can do is clip its edge but the hint shows the path doing the same thing so that can't be it. Help!

Not this
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or this
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Comments

  • XavianXavian
    edited June 2010
    Here's yet another seemingly iable path it rejects

    34199_1319746084959_1570011345_30786883_4132832_n.jpg

    With three answers that fit the criteria that don't work, and a mirror that doesn't have a clear path through it even in the hints, I can't help but feel this puzzle is flawed and possibly unsolvable.

    But if anyone can prove me wrong, please do! It's really frustrating me!
  • blucentioblucentio
    edited June 2010
    doesn't one of the hints say that the pass starts and ends on either side of a brick wall? none of the examples you have fit that clue. Also all three aren't hitting that one mirror, the one you mentioned was problematic, but there is a way to go through it and avoid a brick wall, that isn't what you have right now.
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
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  • XavianXavian
    edited June 2010
    thanks. I'm glad to know the puzzle wasn't screwed up then.

    appreciated!
  • XavianXavian
    edited June 2010
    alright well I've solved it but for the record that "correct" solution didn't go through the mirror any more than the other solutions I posted.

    Granted, my solution did not start and end on opposite sides of the brick wall bt that's a bogus reason to reject it because someone not using hints would never see that qualifier. It should have been in the RULES. Not the HINTS. Where the rules are concerned all four of these solutions are equally valid.

    Perhaps placing another mirror to eliminate the alternate paths would be a good idea.

    This puzzle gets a REJECTED stamp for bad design
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
    i thought it was screwed up at first because this is what the hints showed me, along with the solution:

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  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited June 2010
    You'll notice in all 3 of your pictures it doesnt exactly go through one of the mirrors, just clips the black edge border.
    In the correct solution it actually covers up a bit of blue.
  • jtoastjtoast
    edited June 2010
    The goal was to NOT break any mirrors. This means that you have to start with the guy in the top right and work your way from there.
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
    jtoast wrote: »
    The goal was to NOT break any mirrors. This means that you have to start with the guy in the top right and work your way from there.

    TripleFacePalm.jpg

    That's the first puzzle. If you click on the door again, you get a scenario where the team has been fired and they want revenge by breaking every single pane of glass.
  • WhatevWhatev
    edited June 2010
    I disagree that that needed to be mentioned in the rules. There are a number of cases where things should have been mentioned, such as Hot Hawks failing to mention that all loaded birds must be fully loaded and Going After Glori not mentioning that you can't ride through forests (though this one is a little bit logical). But in this case the fact that the pass ends up on opposite sides of the wall is incidental.
  • NeatNitNeatNit
    edited July 2010
    Whatev wrote: »
    I disagree that that needed to be mentioned in the rules. There are a number of cases where things should have been mentioned, such as Hot Hawks failing to mention that all loaded birds must be fully loaded
    Wasn't that one obvious? :confused:
  • jermy52jermy52
    edited July 2010
    where was that puzzle? i beat the game without seeing it
  • kebabikebabi
    edited July 2010
    jermy52 wrote: »
    where was that puzzle? i beat the game without seeing it

    Right from the hotel, there is a help wanted sign, press that and you'll get the easier version of this one. Later there's a closed sign, press that and you'll get this one.
  • browenbrowen
    edited July 2010
    NeatNit wrote: »
    Wasn't that one obvious? :confused:

    I did not think that one was obvious, why would they need to be fully loaded?
  • priznaprizna
    edited July 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    i thought it was screwed up at first because this is what the hints showed me, along with the solution:

    attachment.php?attachmentid=1639&stc=1&d=1277975008

    Where did you get that hint? That hint doesnt show up for me, also why do you only have 1 brick wall?
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited July 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    i thought it was screwed up at first because this is what the hints showed me, along with the solution:

    attachment.php?attachmentid=1639&stc=1&d=1277975008

    I never got that hint and my puzzle looked completely different.
    But I ran into a problem with this puzzle where I had submitted the correct solution three times then it accepted it the fourth.
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited July 2010
    I do remember when finishing that one I pressed "how" and it showed a section like that (without walls at the side) while there definitely were walls there.
  • Puzzler74Puzzler74
    edited July 2010
    I hear you on this one!! I have exactly the same problem. Help! someone.
    I am costing taxpayers mega bucks on submissions that are correct but are rejected anyway. :/
    Thanks.
  • Puzzler74Puzzler74
    edited August 2010
    Thanks Highway and Elvenmonk. I tried the hint you two posted on 7-3-10. And, it works even though I have two brick wall on the top left and one wall on the bottom right. Again, this solution doesn't show in the 'Hints'. But then, why would it?
    Thank you.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited August 2010
    Puzzler74 wrote: »
    Thanks Highway and Elvenmonk. I tried the hint you two posted on 7-3-10. And, it works even though I have two brick wall on the top left and one wall on the bottom right. Again, this solution doesn't show in the 'Hints'. But then, why would it?
    Thank you.

    I had three brick walls in mine. o.o
  • xbskidxbskid
    edited August 2010
    Elvenmonk wrote: »
    I had three brick walls in mine. o.o
    So did he:
    Puzzler74 wrote: »
    ...I have two brick wall on the top left and one wall on the bottom right.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited August 2010
    I meant compared to the image I qouted.
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