Jammuu may have already uploaded this version, but just in case I uploaded it here too - Team Jammius42:

Alch. 42Genius42 : Once upon a time, Alchemist 42Genius42 made an instructions solve for this puzzle.

This solve was modified with minimal effort - just changing instructions and adding 1 more arm & track piece to get 126 cycles for a CG solve. That will do...

Then I had another look later trying faster build methods, still leaving the top arms from the instructions solve the same and got to 110. That will do... and if it wasn't for Alchemist Jammuu's effort that's where I would have left it... Jammuu quickly figured it was faster to have pistons for each elemental atom after the quint-split rather than a hex-arm that has to grab/turn/drop and came up with a 97 cycles then eventually an 81. Impressive stuff! Though now the bottleneck was around what was at the time the lower hex-arm spinning over the triplexes, forcing a period of 12. Spurred on by Alchemist Jammuu's efforts, Alchemist 42Genius42 soon got it down to period 11 and then, after 2 more hours, down to period 10... giving a cycles count of 71. Alchemist Jammuu then fiddled a little more to offset my aesthetic even output rate to knock off one more cycle to take us to 70! Yay! A true team effort!

Good enough for a top 10? Or will we be sad? 😢


Alch. Stitch: Alchemist Jammuu Stitch here, got the latency of the machine down by 1. Not sure what else to say, just moved some instructions around and somehow squeezed another cycle out of this thing. This puzzle was a nice distraction to some other things happening... It was really fun :D, thanks Spectria!

[A sticky note on the bottom of the submitted cabinet machine, supposedly from Mr. Stitch.] 

I̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶'r̶e ̶s̶e̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶,̶ It's̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶s̶e̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e drea̶ms st̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶w̶ith th̶e̶ ̶plan̶e̶t,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶e̶s, eve̶r̶y̶t̶h̶i̶ng.̶.̶.̶ T̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶d̶i̶cation̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶not ̶w̶o̶r̶ke̶d̶,̶ ̶I'm not̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ I ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶do anymo̶r̶e̶.̶.̶.̶.̶ ̶A̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶is p̶o̶i̶n̶t, I m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶p̶t m̶y̶ fate,̶ ̶w̶ait̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶he begin̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f ̶n̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶,̶ ̶2025. T̶h̶a̶t̶'s̶ ̶w̶h̶ere̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶ns lea̶d t̶o̶, ̶a̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶s̶t. ̶I̶f̶ ̶y̶ou see̶ ̶a̶nyth̶i̶n̶g̶,̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶ny̶thing ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e s̶k̶y̶,̶ ̶t̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶e̶, I ne̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶k̶now.̶

Alch. 42Genius42: I told him not to read the Necronomicon...