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Week 3: Metallic Plastic

 

Metallic Plastic

Puzzle designed by UltraShortPulse

It turns out that cultivating mass amounts of a highly flammable mushroom to collect it's spores completely in secret is not feasible, so the Resistance needed to pivot to another strategy to break into House Surpuo's archive. Plan B was to be a mixture of an off the shelf fire-based disposal briquette mixed with a sort of metal infused gel. This blend of substances can burn for several hours without any smoke while being impossible to douse. With this material, the heist can finally begin.

Reagents:
Titanium
Petroleum

Product:
Metallic Plastic

Metrics:
Latency > Area@1 > Cost
Bounding Hexagon > Cycles > Cost

Note: Latency solves will still have to solve to completion to count, but waste chains will still be permitted.

download: USP-3.0metallic_plastic.puzzle (where do i put this?)

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to be accepted, solutions must be submitted by october 2, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

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