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  39cool Pro

  very neat! its crazy that ive been on this site for, what, seven years, and ive never noticed that portal bug. or maybe i did and forgot. who knows.
  time to get back to the other one now, lol

  September 29 at 13:52
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  vroy Pro

  The fact that the other object will be teleported up is not a feature, it is a bug.

  September 17 at 10:19
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    sardinakawkaw

    @Jonathan: Thanks for the clarification. I see no problem publishing tricky puzzles as long as the rules are made clear. Today, the non-usual portal behaviour is not documented, as you pointed out yourself. Even the portal deactivation (or intoxication, as I like to name it) does not appear in the documentation.

    September 18 at 16:57
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    Jonathan Handojo Pro

    @sardinakawkaw: I hardly think this "bug" would ever been re-examined. In my opinion, it would just have to be documented. Otherwise, you will have to reassess all modern puzzles involving portals for their eligibility... or simply take the easy way out and delete all modern puzzles containing portals. And you would not want to imagine how many of those are out there.

    September 19 at 13:20
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    39cool Pro

    @sardinakawkaw: its pretty interesting to me that portal blocking isnt in the help guide, but also documenting all of the strange quirks of portals is a feat in and of itself... maybe a seperate section would be useful for that, because it would definitely be intimidating when you just start out. imagine just visiting and theres an hour long lecture about the inner mechanics of the game and why some specific portal configurations lead to errors, lol

    September 29 at 14:40
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  Dewed

  Needs a grey box or something lol

  September 16 at 17:15
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    Jonathan Handojo Pro

    @Dewed: For this reason, there can exist some puzzles involving portals which can be rendered unsolvable even if their exact layouts are rotated. Such as this one, when it's flipped vertically or rotated 90° counterclockwise.

    September 16 at 17:30
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    PGT Pro

    @Jonathan Handojo: so . . . a x b ≠ b x a

    September 17 at 22:21
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    Jonathan Handojo Pro

    @PGT: That's a good analogy, but yes. It kinda works like matrices. You'll start to explore more of these things yourself as you explore and build more puzzles.

    September 17 at 22:37