Normal solution
Hints are given below when you expand the boxes.
| Spoiler: Hint 1
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| This level tests what you've learned about blockpads so far. Everything you need to know has been shown off in a previous level.
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| All the O blocks are in separate pits, but in order to close the OOOOH bridge, you'll have to get all the O blocks together. But you can't push them up the stairs out of their pits...
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| Spoiler: Hint 3
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| What exactly happens when you smash a block against a wall? (Think back to Slightly Low Basement and Spiral of Despair.)
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| Spoiler: Hint 4
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| A smashed block regenerates on the nearest blockpad.
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| Spoiler: Hint 5
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| "Nearest" being the important word in Hint 4. (Have you noticed the dotted line that briefly appears when you push a block? That shows you what the block considers to be the nearest blockpad.)
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| Spoiler: Hint 6
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| Blocks decide the nearest blockpad purely by proximity. That is, they don't care if there's a wall in the way.
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| Spoiler: Hint 7
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| From the start of the level, try pushing the southeast O block west, and then smashing it on the west wall.
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| Spoiler: Hint 8
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| Following on from Hint 7: it regenerates on the blockpad in the southwest pit, not its original blockpad, because the southwest blockpad is closer! You will be moving the O blocks together by smashing them onto different blockpads. Of course, now you have to think about where they'll end up...
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| Spoiler: Hint 9
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| The O blocks must go into the northeast pit. This is because you have no other blockpads for the H, so it must stay in that pit. All the Os have to come to meet it.
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| Spoiler: Hint 10 (solution)
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 A diagram of where you can push and smash blocks to move them about in this level. Build OOOOH in the northeast as shown to beat the level. Follow Hint 7 to get two O blocks in the southwest pit. Push the two southwest Os west, then north, then smash them to get three Os in the northwest pit. Push each of those three Os north, then east, then smash them to get all Os in the northeast pit. Now just push each O north, then east (next to the H) to spell OOOOH and close the bridge out of the level.
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Present solution
| Spoiler: Hint 1 (present location)
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| The present is called out right away. It's on a pillar just west of the exit.
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| A set of stairs in the SW is blocked by a NOPE gate. Find another way up.
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| Spoiler: Hint 3
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| Get to the exit (see normal solution above), and climb the stairs.
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| Spoiler: Hint 4
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| At the top of the stairs, smash one or more of the letters in NOPE to open the NOPE gate in hint 2. (The NOPE letters are reborn on OPEN for fun.)
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| Spoiler: Hint 5
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| To the south, find a complicated mechanism and a TO GO OR NOT bridge. Experiment with the blocks.
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| Spoiler: Hint 6
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| You need to make TO GO OR NOT. You need the RNGT blocks from the upper floor and the OOOO blocks from the lower floor.
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| Spoiler: Hint 7
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| The HELD blocks can be smashed to momentarily remove the HELD platforms. How can that be useful?
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| Spoiler: Hint 8
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| You need to spell TO GO OR NOT in the pits below, by positioning letters RNGT in the correct places above and then releasing HELD to drop them.
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| Spoiler: Hint 9
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| Four words and three pits. There are 'T's in both TO and NOT, but only one T block.
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| Spoiler: Hint 10
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| Try making NOT in the NW quadrant.
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| Spoiler: Hint 11 (solution)
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 How to push the blocks, and where they'll end up. Follow the orange arrows first for the N and T, then smash the R and G and do the green arrows. There are a few ways to do this but a simple solution is: Push the T west, squishing RNGT against the west wall. Push the N and T blocks north (which will make NOT and TO below). Smash the R and G to reset them and push them both south (which will make GO and OR below). Move the Os around using the reverse process of the original solution. (Check the extra hints below if the NOT and TO are giving you grief.) Cross the TO GO OR NOT bridge and drop down on to the present.
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| Spoiler: Hint 1
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| As indicated in Hint 10 of the present hints above, you'll make both NOT and TO in the NW pit.
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| The easiest way to do this is to make NOTO, so that the two words overlap on the T.
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| Spoiler: Hint 3
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| Although it looks like you only need two O blocks for NOTO, you may need to use a third O block as a stopper to get things into position. (Or you could drop the R or G into there temporarily, and smash-and-rebirth it when you're done with it. But the below solution will use an O.)
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| Spoiler: Hint 4 (solution for TO and NOT)
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 How to do the TO and NOT, in picture form Drop the N and T as described in Hint 11 of the present hints above, and bring three O blocks onto the pad of the NW pit. Push one O north to make NOT; push a second one north and east; then push the third north, east, north and west to make NOTO. Now you can smash your leftover O block and use it for the GO or OR.
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| Spoiler: Achievements
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There is 1 achievement available for this level:
- Above Average: Get the Present in Average Basement using just one pit to spell words.
| Spoiler: Hint 1
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| Get familiar with the mechanics of this level by getting to the present the "easier" way (see present solution hints above).
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| It is possible to use only the NW pit - focus on that. (Others may also work - untested).
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| Spoiler: Hint 4
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| Recall you can push through bars.
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| Spoiler: Hint 5
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| Don't put NOT all the way in a corner.
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| Spoiler: Hint 6
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| Spell NOT and TO horizontally. GO and OR share an O.
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| Spoiler: Hint 7
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The layout of blocks you want is the following in the NW corner of the NW pit:
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| Spoiler: Hint 8 (full solution)
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Solve the level as normal (make the OOOOH bridge, smash the NOPE blocks at the top of the stairs).
- Positioning the T (the tricky part): Push T west, north, east into the NE corner. Now you want 3 more blocks west of the T so you can push it west into the 4th column, so push N and G both north, then east (push through the bars if needed), then rebirth the R and push north as well. All letters should be along the top row. Push T west to move it to the 4th column. Re-smash all remaining letters.
- Positioning the N: Push N out of the way (north or south), push G west as a backstop, rebirth the N and push it west, north so it's at the top of the 2nd column from the west.
- Positioning the G: If you followed the previous sentence, the G can just be pushed north into the NW corner. If not, just smash the R and G, push west, north.
- Positioning the R: Smash to rebirth the R and push north.
Smash one of the HELD blocks to drop the blocks down. Now to position the O blocks. Getting the O between the N and T is the hard part. The following will get you there:
- Move the O blocks to the NW room by repeatedly smashing them near the next closest blockpad.
- Make GO / OR by pushing one of the O blocks west, north.
- Make NOT by positioning one O along the east wall by pushing it north, east. Position another O along the north wall by pushing it north, east (using O as backstop), north. Push the last O north, east, north, (smash the eastmost O to get it out of the way), then east, north to position it between the N and T.
- Make TO by pushing the other O west.
Collect the present to get the achievement.
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| Spoiler: View squares
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| There are 0 view squares on this level.
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| Spoiler: Hanging men
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| There are 0 hanging men on this level.
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