Mirror Machine on Very Hard?

[Kienn]

Is this one working for anyone? I got to it and it seems impossible to solve.

I'll see a solution using one of the flashing tiles and try to use it... but when I place it it stops flashing on the wrong type of body part (orange nose instead of green, etc).

I watched a gameplay video of someone playing the original Zoombinis and that was not how it worked. When they placed the flashing tile it would use the correct piece they needed.

I've even tried rearranging pieces to then use the wrong part of the flashing piece... only to have it change in order to foil me.

So what am I missing? Or is this level's code broken?

[ceegersmello]

This appears to be working like the original for me anyway. I recall it being very confusing when I used to play many years ago, and I think it's causing you the same trouble here.
The flashing tiles have absolutely nothing to do with timing. It's all about what type of that feature comes before the flashing tile. So, for example, if a tile flashes eyes in the order: dots, sleepy, sunglasses, glasses, one-eye; then placing this tile in front of a glasses guy will result in one-eye no matter when you put it down.

[Techbane #FreeHK]

I just figured out for the first time earlier today, actually, that what the random-cycle tiles land on is dependent on what's behind them -- which includes other manually-placed tiles. So sometimes you can end up with 2 or 3 cycling tiles that need to be layered in front of one another to produce the required result.

[Twipidash]

Does anyone else have a problem with the flashing tiles changing after the puzzle has already been activated (when the two images switch places)? :/ I didn't know it could do that. I'll try using the logic you described to predict what it might change to...

[ceegersmello]

Yup, it's designed that way on very very hard to require you to think ahead :-)

[Twipidash]

Yeah, I can beat it easily(ish) now! Thanks for the tips. :)

Though I could have sworn that I saw one puzzle where it wasn't possible to make it work... I wonder if it was a glitch or if I was just using the wrong parts. It had a flashing nose but no matter how I placed it it would only work for one of the two pairs. I wish I had taken a screenshot!