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Funneling Redirection
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Funneling Redirection

Description
This is a puzzle. No cube tossing, no flinging, no hard timing, all angles 90 degrees.

The first room teaches you something you might find useful afterwards.
In case you are stuck, there are hints and the solution below.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out exploits and alternate solutions!

*** HINTS ***
1.) You have to destroy the redirection cube at least twice and the weighted cube at least once.
2.) What is your last step? What is needed to make it possible?
3.) You do not need to get the weighted cube onto the glass plattform.
4.) You have to make use of a redirection cube while it is traveling through a funnel.
5.) Outline:
-Get the weighted cube.
-Have the funnel aimed at your portal AND be on the glass plattform simultaneously.
-Destroy the weighted cube with combined use of sucking funnel, laser and laser cube.
-Get the new weighted cube on the wall button.
-Ride to victory.

Video solution (chamber changed slightly since then, solution stayed the same):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kEgX6ocgAUw

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41 Comments
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bullfrog 29 Oct, 2017 @ 2:31am 
Excellent puzzle. I wasted a quite a bit of time trying to do it the wrong way, then realised there’s another (i.e. correct!) way that is elegant and works every time, as opposed to relying on chance – big thumbs up.
Innocentive 8 Jan, 2013 @ 1:49am 
Beautiful puzzle!!! I don't know if I would have been able to complete this one without hint 4 ... even though you suggested with your intro room that the weighted cube has to be destroyed once to make room for a new one. Anyhow, thanks for this map!
mechtakendall 2 Jul, 2012 @ 8:00pm 
It was no concern, plus as I did in my own puzzle, I used the ceiling as well to line it up. That replay is one I hit it perfectly, it doesn't show the half a dozen times I missed. Really, your puzzle is very good, I just wish I was better at placing cubes on the weighted buttons (I do ok on the cube and ball buttons, since the tend to cradle the item). Please don't take my lack of coordination with video games as a critism to your puzzle. It was more a critism of myself.
sekti  [author] 2 Jul, 2012 @ 4:35pm 
That surprises me, because dropping cubes on buttons with funnels is a technique that you use in the solution to your own chamber. Its just a different button type and the funnel is controlled in a different way. Well I guess it's the small things that make the difference. I can't do anything about it. Thanks anyway for stating your concern.
mechtakendall 2 Jul, 2012 @ 4:12pm 
My solution was the same as yours, I just kept rolling the redirection cube off the button. Just couldn't get the timing right. I must have spent 20 minutes on just that alone. Yeah, I suck, lol. I've found weighted buttons have a tendency for that to happen, but I also understand that is what needs to be used there. It was a great puzzle, I just suck at placing cubes with funnels in intended locations.
sekti  [author] 2 Jul, 2012 @ 3:21pm 
The indended solution does not require anything that I would consider an extraordinary placement skill. Can you tell me what it is in particular that you found hard to perform? Did you watch the solution video? If you have found a very different solution I may want to get rid of it.
mechtakendall 2 Jul, 2012 @ 2:54pm 
Definitely one of the hardest I've done. I had the puzzle figured out long before I solved it, I just lack the placement skills needed, and had to keep repeating a process over and over. Otherwise, a great map, very challenging. Difficulty 8/10 Design 7/10
sekti  [author] 26 Jun, 2012 @ 9:50pm 
@Distant: This should now be impossible. I raised the wall button one block. This should also fix an exploit pointed out by XLR8br before.
@o+=: What really puzzles me more than the puzzles is where everyone seems to have learned cube tossing. Thats not the clean and noble inside-the-box puzzle solving style GLaDOS taught you guys. ;-)
Well, since you are not the first one, I guess the puzzle really needs protection against people that are less clumsy than myself and able to perform these tricks.

The area below the first fizzler is now flattened. I guess nobody can throw it up there now.
Thanks for the comments and sorry for taking so much time to fix this.
o+= 26 Jun, 2012 @ 11:16am 
Difficulty 8/10
Fun 7/10

Completed this one yesterday with the cube throwing technique at first and then after reading the comments it became obvious this wasn't the intended solution. So I had another go today and completed as you intended.

The intended solution is a thinker and works nicely and it's a shame that most people seem to be solving this using unintentional methods.
Distant 6 Jun, 2012 @ 10:17am 
I found an additional unintended solution. If you stack one cube on top of the other at the wall button, the button will trigger without needing the funnel to push the cube into it. A square of water under the button will fix this without making the puzzle impossible.

A very nice map. Small, simple, and the intended solution just looks cool. I enjoyed watching it work as much as solving it. I have a couple maps of my own that could stand some scrutiny if you have time. I try my best to make sure there's no bypass solution, but a player with a portal gun is a hard thing to contain.