Mirror Machine on Very, Very Hard completely bugged

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harvest

Oct 3, 2016 @ 10:52am

Mirror Machine on Very, Very Hard completely bugged

You're supposed to need to figure out a single set of filters that works for both sets of Zoombinis, which seems a nice challenge.

But instead, the image that appears on the crystal always corresponds to the zoombinis in the BACK. The zoombinis in the front don't do anything at all.

So this actually makes it an easier version of Very Hard, because it's the same puzzle, but you get two for one!

Note that I've only done it on this difficulty on practice mode. So maybe the bug only exists in practice mode. But it's 100% reproducible for me.

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76561198274821548 has Zoombinis

Oct 11, 2016 @ 11:27am

This is a complete issue for me as well and I'm not in practice mode. Once I worked out the "back Zoombini" trick it worked for a while but then occasionally it wouldn't, and random flashing features would change completely randomly after pulling the lever. So basically impossible to pass the final leg of the journey perfectly on Very, Very Hard. :(

harvest

Oct 11, 2016 @ 9:51pm

The flashing features are confusing because their preview is based on the zoombini in front, but the final result is based on the zoombini is back.

It's all based on the order it flashes in (which is the same as the order when creating a zoombini at the start of the game).

For example, hair is "shaggy, ponytail, little hair, flat hair, girl with hat". If the front zoombini is "shaggy hair", the preview will show "ponytail". But if the zoombini in back is "little hair", the final result will actually be "flat hair". Hopefully that explanation makes sense. Basically, you need to convert each attribute to a number between 1 and 5, and add 1 to it for each flashing thing in the sequence, looping around when you pass 5.

wolarace81 May 14, 2017 @ 11:29am

I wish in an other life I could save your life for this perfect advice ! Thank you so much !!!

Zoé

Jan 3, 2018 @ 5:20am

I'm surprised to find only a very few number of topics mentioning this. It's a pretty big flaw in the puzzle game design.

I've made a very short video showing the issue :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dqTI8RU8M

What's wrong about it seems pretty obvious...

Last edited by Zoé; Jan 3, 2018 @ 5:42am