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From: ejt@cs.ed.ac.uk (Edward Toner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mayhem 1 help, request Tricky 26 help
Keywords: Lemmings Help
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Date: 17 Mar 91 16:02:41 GMT
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In article <65652@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) writes:
<farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren) writes:
<
<<Lemmings       _
<<come out      / \-+
<<    here    +-| |
<<         \    | |
<<   _      | -------         _
<<  / \-+   V    |           / \-+
<<+-| |          |         +-| |
<<  | |          |           | |
<<--------------------------------  , where the fire hydrant things are
<<rotating knives, you've got XX lemmings, and have to save 100%?  I think
<<it's level 26, but am not sure.  Any help appreciated.
<
<     This IS a tough board!  If you notice what you are given, I believe
<you have quite a few bridges.  The way I finally got through this board
<certainly isn't easy and is very hard to duplicate, but I'll describe it
<anyway.
<     When the lemmings start to come out, start making as many as possible
<bridge builders.  If you do this right, you will end up with a bridge that
<that is thick.   When the lemmings cross the bridge and then turn around
<to walk past the bridge they will get trapped between the bridge and the 
<middle post if the bridge is thick enough.
<     Once one of the first few lemmings reaches the pole in the middle, make 
<him a basher.  If everything goes right, no lemmings will die.  This will take
<a while to get right!  
<     If anyone else has figured out a better way than this, I would be 
<interested in hearing about it.

I don't know if this qualifies as better, but it is different :-) Actually I
think your way is better but I didn't think of it.
I made the second lemming to get to the middle pole a basher. The first and a
few others will be turned back before the basher digs through. The ones who get
turned back - build bridges over the rotating knives up to the wall on the left.
This is tricky as they all seem to run out of bricks at the same time. Needs
practice but it did work!

Ed.
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