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Re: BrickFest TimeSaver Layout
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lugnet.trains.org
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:29:08 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Tom Cook writes:
> As part of the Train activities for BrickFest, I am planning a switching
> puzzle game based on John Allen's TimeSaver layout.
Note (to the uninitiated, everyone that knows who John Allen is already
knows this) TimeSaver is a bit of a misnomer, it's really MOVEsaver, as in
you are judged on total number of moves to solve the puzzle, not the elapsed
time. A move is a couple/uncouple or a direction reversal without
coupling/uncoupling, basically (someone could post the exact definition if
they Googled for it)
> One attempt at a LEGO
> track plan is:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=163126
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> If you are interested, please take a look, and let me know what you think.
Are you planning on supplying the rolling stock? These track lenghts seem
short for US prototype car lengths but seem about right for 2 axle eurotrash
stock.
It probably is a good thing if you DO supply all the stock so that the sizes
are exactly uniform. The puzzle assumes a standard carlength after all.
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| (...) Yes, typically that is how it is graded, however, I recently learned that the original article in the 1972 (I think) Model Railroader magazine called for it to be timed. So I think we can use whatever method works best. (...) I agree, the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| As part of the Train activities for BrickFest, I am planning a switching puzzle game based on John Allen's TimeSaver layout. One attempt at a LEGO track plan is: (URL) you are interested, please take a look, and let me know what you think. (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains.org)
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