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Counter-Strike: Source (2004)

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So, let's see... we're in the home stretch (not that you should know this beforehand), I mentioned that our animal-building days are at an end... that leaves us with some interesting stragglers, including some new takes on the simpler puzzles and a couple of really strange and interesting things to come.

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Puzzle Mode
Puzzle 23: Big Cross

Huh, the Big Cross has an entirely different formation than its Small variant from way back when we started this thing... it's actually not too different from the previous one, at least if you moved the Big Checker's stray pieces from its extremities and put them in the corners to create this great big... X.

In the same fashion as the Big Checker and how these diagonal-exclusive puzzles interact with the no-touching rule, you can technically just make a big, continuous checker formation again.

To be fair, the puzzle only seems easier than the last one, which itself felt pretty simple... but that doesn't mean you can get particularly careless about it. That may seem like something I either say or should say too often, but that doesn't make it less true, especially in cases you think will be too easy to be worth the extra trouble.

Actually, the sorts of things you wouldn't think should pose a problem are the big issues here. The first major challenge is getting started, which you might've noticed can be particularly troublesome in creating diagonals, since any piece with adjacent tiles in the color you intend to work in are entirely useless without some extra effort that may indeed be more trouble than it's worth.

The other, more dangerous and far less visible threat is that the tendency not to pay much mind to your negative filler on the side (especially because you're even less liable to watch the ones piling up outside the target area), thus making it extremely unlikely that you'll notice when a drop will prove rather deleterious to your intended goals. Oh, and consider this issue compounded if you need to make repairs, even of the "oh, that'll be easy to fix up afterwards" sort.

So... if you can manage to keep those from being a factor... yes, easy!

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