A Walk Around the Lake [medium-hard]

[atomic ravine]

15 cards - 12 main weapons

starting point: 3 mains from the same class have their specials activated without placing any other cards

A Walk Around the Lake [medium-hard]

[ashen isle]

@atomic ravine Was this made pre sizzle season

also, is the hint specifically at the starting block or is it anywhere on the puzzle?

[atomic ravine]

i believe so

[atomic ravine]

specifically at the starting block

[ashen isle]

is that squiffer in the bottom left corner?

oh wait I just realized from the same class

that helps

[ashen isle]

also nvm this, squiff was mirrored of what I thought

okay actual guess, L-3D in the top left

[atomic ravine]

nope

[spare jasper]

Possible idea for the loop:
||Starting on the left, mothership, fizzy, suction, zap ‘85||

[spare jasper]

Also, machine top left?

[atomic ravine]

||it was designed to look like this but not actually be it, lol||

[spare jasper]

||Lol you sure got me with it||

[ashen isle]

okay so you can say no if you think its too much info, but is the top left special blockinvolved in the three card combo?

[ashen isle]

this puzzle is legitimately stumping me

[spare jasper]

Same, I’m trying to work with the hint but nothing I’ve tried satisfies those conditions

If I could figure out which special blocks are used in the combo I could maybe put something together, but the fact that there’s 4 that could be used is making it difficult

[atomic ravine]

no, it isn't involved

[ashen isle]

Alright I figured

[atomic ravine]

try looking at the shapes of the non-special blocks for a while. it might help you figure out what class the hint is talking about

also happy to mention that there are 5 weapons from that class in the entire puzzle

[spare jasper]

I’ve ruled out a few classes already, obviously stringers and splatanas, brellas don’t work with the special placement and how cramped it is, same for splatlings, and chargers don’t have the shape to fit/ activate each other’s specials. Same with brushes.
I’m close to ruling out sloshers because the big ones don’t fit and the small ones are just barely too small to activate all three, at least from what I tried. Dualies seem unlikely due to the amount of them having donut holes with nothing to fill them.
That leaves shooters and blasters. I’m leaning towards shooters due to how many there are, but that doesn’t really mean anything for these purposes. As for blasters, there are a few that can fit in specific places that make me think there’s something there but I can’t quite find anything beyond that.
In conclusion, I need to go to sleep lol. I’ll try again tomorrow

Oh I forgot rollers! They don’t work with the special placement and are generally too big given the space.

I am totally prepared to be wrong btw, this is just my analysis based on what I’ve tried so far

[atomic ravine]

there's a wrong assumption in there somewhere!

[spare jasper]

Oh boy, time to rethink everything I’ve done so far 👁️👄👁️

[atomic ravine]

also for the sake of not making you look at like 35 cards, it's not shooters

[spare jasper]

Okay that’s good to know

[spare jasper]

I am going to rule out shooters, splatanas, stringers, and brellas for sure

First three are self explanatory, and brellas (of which there are four, but only three pre-sizzle season, but that doesn’t even matter cause none of them could be the bottom two special blocks

They also need to occupy all of these blocks in order to activate all specials (I went around the starting block

This very likely isn’t the exact shape it will take, it just needs to have all of those spaces occupied with the specials in the correct place

Also gonna rule out brushes, too few and there’s nowhere octobrush can fit

[atomic ravine]

this is not correct

you're looking in the wrong direction

[ashen isle]

Bruh is it really the bottom two and the one that’s farther right

[atomic ravine]

nope!

consider what different classes can do

[atomic ravine]

consider this, and take a look at the whole puzzle - note places where there oddly aren't any special blocks and you should be able to figure out what class it is, i think

[spare jasper]

Alright that would explain why I wasn’t getting anywhere lol

I thought for sure it was those three since it was at the starting block

[spare jasper]

I have an idea but I haven’t been able to get every special activated

It seems promising though

Okay I think I got it
Wish I thought of this earlier lmao

I did it :D

[ashen isle]

damn nice job

[spare jasper]

Once I figured out those three starting cards it was just a matter of filling everything else in

[atomic ravine]

nice work!!