I'm having trouble getting a lot of OCDs, but, little by little, I've been managing them.

Anyway, I couldn't get the OCD on Product Launcher, no matter how hard I tried.  A Youtube video suggests bouncing reds off the floor so that they hit the flame and come down to set the structure on fire, but the video gives away that this is a VERY glitchy plan of attack, and so probably isn't the "right" way (or intended way) to get the OCD flag.

A friend and I last night figured out another way to get it...but I can't tell if this was the intended way or not.

What we did was we each grabbed a green goo at the beginning...you only need to remove two of them if you do it right.  Anyway, we grabbed the greens, but did NOT release them...we held them with our cursors, and carefully carried them between the gears, through the tunnel, and up through the Z.  If you release a green goo inside the Z at the tip of the red goo chain, they'll walk out and you can use them on your structure.  Since we each grabbed a goo, that counts for 2 moves.

Next we used two more moves:  on top of the existing red structure, use one green to make a triangle pointing upward.  On the side of that, use another green to make another triangle.  That's four moves.

On top of your new green platform, build one red triangle, and then another on top of that.  That's six moves.

Attach a balloon to the top of your new red triangle closest to the flame.  That's seven moves.

Now I had her hold her cursor away from the structure and whistle, so that I could get a clear shot at the green ones I used to build the structure.  First I pulled one of them off, leaving a single green tethering the red piece in place.  Eight moves.

Finally I grabbed the last green and yanked it free.  The red structure (by now only a red line) flew up with the balloon toward the flame.  Nine moves.

As soon as the red line catches fire (if you wait too long it'll burn out) you pull the balloon off of it so that the flaming piece crashes to the ground and sets everything on fire.  Then you just sit back and watch the level end.  That's ten moves...and the OCD was 12 moves so we had 2 to spare!

Whew! 

What are some other solutions to this OCD puzzle?  The bouncing one is clearly not intended, and I'm not even sure mine was either (though it does work).  What else have people done to solve it?

If you throw a red goo the right way on the torch, it will catch fire and set the whole structure on fire.

that's a genius way to do it!  It works just fine?

You can manage the OCD using the "2 green gooballs removal" technique at the begining and building a tower of red gooballs directly to the fire, without using any balloon. It can be done with 12 moves.
In leaderboards somes have finished it with only 1 move, I don't see how to do it.

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that's a genius way to do it!  It works just fine?


Yep, works great, though you have to pull the balloon off at the MOMENT the structure catches fire, otherwise it'll burn out before it crashes down.  (Oddly the burning animation sometimes continues even though it's no longer capable of lighting things on fire!)

Boudin mentions you can just build a tower straight up and be done within the 12 moves...but damned if I was able to do that.  Anything I managed with only 12 moves was too flimsy to stand up straight!

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Boudin mentions you can just build a tower straight up and be done within the 12 moves...but damned if I was able to do that.  Anything I managed with only 12 moves was too flimsy to stand up straight!


I use the whistler to maintain gooballs at the bottom of the tower to avoid break down. At the end you must be quick to set the tower on fire before it goes down.

[quote author=Boudin link=topic=848.msg6259#msg6259 date=1227437064]

I use the whistler to maintain gooballs at the bottom of the tower to avoid break down. At the end you must be quick to set the tower on fire before it goes down.


Ahh...gotcha.  That's probably the "correct" way to get the OCD then.  Maybe I should have tried that a little harder before I went and tried out all these other ridiculous ways.  :D

[quote author=Boudin link=topic=848.msg6220#msg6220 date=1227379675]
You can manage the OCD using the "2 green gooballs removal" technique at the begining and building a tower of red gooballs directly to the fire, without using any balloon. It can be done with 12 moves.
In leaderboards somes have finished it with only 1 move, I don't see how to do it.


Marius has a video on how to do that at: http://tetraeder.student.utwente.nl/WoG.html

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Marius has a video on how to do that at: http://tetraeder.student.utwente.nl/WoG.html


I would have never found that way !