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Week 2 Sand of Suspension

event ended on july 5, 2025 at 14:00 UTC

SAND OF SUSPENSION

by Kazyan

METRICS
Trackless Instructions > Area@INF > Cost
Area > Cycles > Cost

REAGENT
Elemental Earth

PRODUCT
Sand of Suspension

-!!! PUZZLE UPDATED !!!-
The metrics for trackless instructions have been changed slightly to properly calculate different area growth rates at infinity. The growth rate of the area of your solution will now be considered for solves with infinite area.

NOTES

  • Solutions must be looping to qualify for the trackless instructions metric.
  • Area is counted at the steady state for the trackless instructions metric. It is not required for your solution to stay within a finite area. For non-finite area solutions, area growth rate is defined as area increase per product.

    • On occasion, the many niche innovations in alchemy at the hands of A. Wallace--known enough to be named, not enough to be famed--prove she can be trusted with vitae and mors. A liminal burial in her Sand of Suspension holds one between life and death, now the modern entomologist's friend. Cocoons, years-old beetles, germinated seeds, and (in one memorable case) a shrew have been pulled out of jars of it, slow to reorient but quick to shake lethargy. In principle, there's nothing stopping you from producing it en masse, if you were to, say, decide to encase yourself in it and skip a few years of interesting times.

    A. Wallace hasn't published much lately.

    download: Weeklies2025_SandOfSuspension.puzzle (where do i put this?)

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