great map!!

Well I solved it with two portals and a glitch :D You can drop the cube behind the destroying barrier by walking ofer the glas wall ;-) but its a really awsom map I really enjoyed playing it.

Thank you for telling me so nicely, how well this job was done.
It took some updates anyway, but they seem to having been worth it. ^_^

That was a great puzzle ^^ No visible exploit and I did as buff00n : portaling everywhere with the funnel XD

Well, thank you for testing! ^-^

Wow, that was excellent. Thanks.

Well made, made me rethink my strategy to move the cube and the bal 2 times.
screwed up once. Keep it up.

for sure ;)
at least you had fun!
cheers

I like this one. It's simple but still interesting. I used a fair amount of funnel drifting to move the sphere around. That's clearly not the minimal portal solution.

All righty ... you beat it! ...updated the description. :)

Talk is cheap: 4 portals

Yeah!!! Thank you so much for this video. You now hold the foreigner record!
And thanks to you, I now know, how to do it with just four portals without any skill needed! I was so dumb, not to recognize that...

Here it is in 5 portals . If I had a little more skill, I could toss the sphere into the exit room from behind the death grille, and do it in 4. Really nice little puzzle.

Thank you! Oh, did I miss your comments on my other maps?
But even smaller chambers? That is one of my smallest and I don't think even smaller ones can make good and stylish puzzles. O_o
Well, I'll have a look, what you have for challanges for me.
cu around the workshop

Quite fun. I generally like your chambers Reiman. You have a attractive style. Only thing I can say for improvement is: a smaller chamber would be better. Please try my chambers and make comment/rate on them.

gz mood3rd for finding a similar solution, like others also did!
As the intended way is easier, needs less portals and doesn't need any skill, I will change the map, making it easier. So thx 4 testing.
gz again to DeathWish808, who found the best way until now: there IS a way to leave the first room with the sphere, without funneling yourself.
Funny fact AND Spoiler: the fastest solution I know is: taking the sphere with you out of the first room through the fizzler!
And now with the update, maybe the ninjas want to run the test again! *wink*
Maybe they now even beat the record of seven portals, as there shall not be a complicated way left.

just tried again:
I could do in 10, if I don't make any mistakes, but I did, so 12 again.
lack of skill.

the hardest part, was getting out of the 1st room. (twice)
placing portals, while in the air & getting through before I dropped, took a few tries.
used about 12 portals, but prefere portaling, when able.
don't have the skill, to get me & the sphere from the 1st room,
to the exit. so sphere 1st, then me 2nd.
I had dropped to much & missed the portal, to go through with the sphere.
but got sphere through, then had another go & followed sphere. (cost me more portals)

LOL, that's an even more crazy way, do do it ^_^
I don't get it, why people dont't see the easy, intended way, although you also can do it like that. ^-^
Cheers for the work you did anyway! ^_^

Let me know once you have seen the video, I'll remove them.

@Reiman
I just read the comments below, and looking at the map and reading the description, I could not find how one could jump to the exit area from a platform, as described. Here's what I did (required more portals than 7 though):


I had got the sphere the same way DW described, but I left the sphere in the first room, went to the cube and came back to first room with it, via the funnel.
Then, I got myself and the sphere to the exit room.

cheers

I did not try to optimize the portal counts. I'll replay it with that in mind. Right now, I'm trying to find my way out of PortalCube :-P

I'm GLaD you enjoy this map ^_^v
@Ebbzylon: Well, there a two possible ways I know to end it, although the second is neither the intended nor the one with the lowest number of portals. How many did you use? Maybe you did it like DeathWish. Please read the description.

Great map. I loved it.

I'm pretty sure I did the first room the intended way, but I might have cheated my (and the sphere) way to the exit room. (i.e. I did not need to go through the fizzler'd door).

Thumb up.

Had great fun figuring this out. Very good map.

Fantastic, I'm happy you finally found one you love! ^-^

This one was fun! Liked it a lot!

Take your time ^.^ essentially you've got fun!

I think I'll have to ponder that a bit. I know the map well enough in my head that I can think my way through it. That's the way I came up with the 7 portal version before I even played it again. Will let you know.

Thank you so very much! I take your word and changed it back so your way is also still possible, as you needed seven ... ha-ha ... Seven anyway! ^___-
Now as you love challenges, do you want to beat yourself and use even less portals now?
(Sorry for the laughter but, I think I need to cheer you on, as you already played it twice)

I didn't intend for you to change anything, since there was nothing broken (Which I usually try to do first to help the author of the map). I just took it as a challenge since we were talking about portal counts. Kind of like in the challenge mode in the standard maps. Anyway, kudos on a good map. Enjoyed trying to figure out shortcuts, but I'd leave it as I played it. Most people wouldn't see it that way. I think having multiple ways to complete something is good as long as it isn't an overly easy alternative. Cheers!

Well, congratulations for the 7! :)
Now I know what you meant before by four!
And as it still wasn't the intended way, you made it a smart way - I like that! ^_^
Thanks for testing!
I hope, future generations now have only the intended way left.
And - LOL! I just realized that it can be done by just five!

I just completed it again with 7 portals. ;-)

1st portal on funnel, second on wall to the left. Step on button and sphere drops in funnel and comes over to the grate. Shoot the non-funnel portal somewhere else so sphere drops and catch it then place on receptacle. Once cube drops then throw sphere through laser grid and walk through the other side. Fire portal back on funnel that was lost when walking through fizzler and on the uncovered (non-grated) portalable surface (4th and 5th portal) to pull cube into the funnel. Carry sphere to top of steps and fire 6th portal above your ahead in the exit area, jump into it, and let the funnel take you to the grid and drop down on the platform. Jump across with sphere to the other side and shoot the 7th portal on the non-grated panel and jump through to exit area. Place both on buttons and done.

huh? that's now even more confusing O_o
you already need 4 shoots to get to the sphere

Yes, did it again, but the first time was with 4 portals, not 4 pairs. Each portal you shoot and re-shoot is added to the count. :-)

That gave no answer on any question, as I not even know if you made it through again :´(
If you mean 4 pairs of used portals by that, it would be the same count now, but by different use in the second half. So this question stays: did you make it again?

The way I did it, it only took 4.

Oha, there must have been an error on publishing!
So sorry: I now see, somehow you played a late beta ~_~
May I please ask you to rate it again now? The hardest puzzle of this chamber had a shortcut and made the name senseless!
By the way: how are portals be counted? Is it one if you make one, or a pair? And is one counted if you have to shoot another, to erase one?
If every shoot counts, then there are even just eight! And it's supposed not to be one of my hardest ^^,

I'd say a 3 or 4/10 on difficulty based on how I solved it. I assume it was correct.

funneled sphere over to grate and then removed funnel and caught sphere at laser grid. Put on sphere receptacle then removed and threw it through the laser grid on the right. Walked through the left one and grabbed cube and put in front of portalable surface on opposite side then funneled it to the base of the funnel. portaled into exit area with sphere and placed sphere there and grabbed cube through grate and placed on other exit button.

Enjoyed it! Cheers!