“I swear, I ordered 6 bottles of each perfume. How did I end up with eleven bottles of “Leaden Sea,” and only ONE bottle of “Star Tide”??? I’ll need to write to the shipping company about this.” -Trixie Kagami

"Hmm, the perfume smells good but I think it made me seasick. Why are we sniffing lead anyway" -Citrius L

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Hi hi! Trixie here! Citrus Cat Alchemy Company is the team name for myself and Lemony! This puzzle was fun to start off with! Solving for latency proved to be fun! You can’t take Latency any lower than 11 cycles. To make Leaden Sea you MUST: grab the copper you want to demote, move onto a rejection, move onto a second rejection, move onto a debonder to debond from water, move onto glyph of division, release to depose the tin, THEN grab the newly made lead, bond one to water, bond the other one to water (due to the shape of the output this can’t be done in one cycle with a multibonder) then move to output, then release. That’s eleven steps, so that’s the least you can do. Lemony was a major help in figuring out some of the geometry for this puzzle! I definitely would have struggled otherwise. It’s a tricky set of actions to pull off all at once, while still making the Star Tide in 11 or fewer cycles. I think this solve has the minimum number of arms and glyphs for min L, but NOT the minimum amount of track. That said both of us are happy with this machine and wish luck to those able to get min L with fewer track hexes!

Signed, Trixie Kagami: The Cheshire Alchemist, Getting Min Latency since 2026