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Rocks'n'Diamonds levels
Rocks'n'Diamonds is a puzzle game combining elements of Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine, Supaplex, and similar titles. At its most basic, the game tasks you with collecting a number of diamonds and finding an exit. At its most complex, there can be numerous sub-puzzles with dozens of elements interacting in exciting ways.
I designed some level sets for Rocks'n'Diamonds. They are no longer included with the game — unfortunately, when the editor gained support for "custom elements", the classic puzzles were mostly discarded — but I encourage you to try out these levels if you want a good, fun challenge without having to learn a new set of rules.
Levels in each set have been arranged to offer a reasonable learning curve. The earlier levels are relatively simple; the later ones are truly fiendish. All levels include solution tapes to prove that they can be completed.
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Set 1 (2002 — 50 levels for one or two players).
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Set 2 (2002 — 100 levels for one or two players).
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Set 3 (2003 — 64 levels for one player).
Notes on specific levels
As of version 3.1.2, Hard Hats Must Be Worn (level 56 of set 2) is impossible to solve without superhuman timing. The solution tape still plays back correctly, but now, if you move under a falling bomb while invincible, it doesn't explode harmlessly but sits on your head as a solid object instead. I reported this bug in September 2007.
Put It on a Floppy Disk (level 99 of set 2) can be solved more cleverly than I originally intended, using the exit at the bottom left instead of the one at the top right. See if you can find out how.
Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb (level 86 of set 2) can be solved more efficiently than I planned. It's possible to get nine more diamonds than required. See if you can find out how.
List of levels in each set
Set 1
1. Send in the Moles
2. Emerald/Mine
3. Make a Swift Exit
4. By Prior Arrangement
5. Dancing with Bombs
6. Memorise It and Beat It
7. Two-Player Yam Fest
8. How to Blow Up Balloons
9. I Can Feel the Reaction
10. Sokoban Gone Bad
11. Fun Factory
12. The Old Mill Stream
13. Everything Shatters Around You
14. Catch 22
15. Something in the Way
16. Too Much of a Good Thing
17. Satellites of Satan
18. Satellites of Satan II
19. Remote Control
20. Yam School
21. How to Steer a Ship
22. May Contain Nuts
23. Mole Mayhem
24. Once More with Falling
25. Bridge Over Troubled Acid
26. Create a Diversion
27. Insecticide
28. Pearls Before Swine
29. All Your Buggy Base...
30. Bomberman
31. Heather Loves You
32. Newton Would Never Believe This
33. I Yam What I Yam
34. Blue Key in the Sty w/ Diamonds
35. Are You Afraid of the Dark Yam?
36. Keeping on Top of Things
37. Light Entertainment
38. Circuit Breaking
39. Meet the Gang
40. The Cor-Bomb-Ouch Manoeuvre
41. Save the Penguins Foundation
42. A Tough Nut to Crack
43. Think Outside the Box
44. Don't Let the Bugs Bite
45. The Keys are Under a Rock
46. Rolling Stock
47. Strange Birds
48. Now Use Miners and Climbers
49. Robot Wars
50. Who Let the Bugs Out?
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Set 2
1. Big Yam
2. Mid-Life Crisis
3. Hidden Treasure
4. Darkness Falls
5. Behind Closed Doors
6. Methane
7. Who Turned Out the Lights?
8. Blocked at Every Turn
9. Sacrifices
10. Christmas Sokoban
11. Do You Feel Lucky?
12. Murphy's Law
13. Murphy's Law II
14. Big Bug
15. Rock and Roll
16. The Travelling Salesman Problem
17. Whack-a-Mole
18. Controlled Expansion
19. Come On You Little Funny Man
20. Pigs Might Fry
21. Yam Session
22. Finite State Machine
23. The Goblet of Terror
24. Come On Let's Grow
25. Give Me a Little More Time
26. Glider
27. Yam Liberation Front
28. Can I Just Slip Past?
29. They Grow Up So Fast
30. Fearful Symmetry
31. Where on the Stair?
32. Fly-by-Light
33. Wham Bam Thank You Yam
34. That Sinking Feeling
35. Growing Pains
36. Cross-Platform Pearl
37. Life's Ups and Downs
38. One Must Fall
39. Reversible Reaction
40. This Should Be a Pushover
41. This Should Be a Rollover
42. An Amazing Breakthrough
43. Multi-Cell Amoeba
44. Plumb Crazy
45. Shiny Things
46. Thou Shalt Not Mill
47. Yam's Best Friend
48. Unblock and Unlock
49. Forget-Me-Not
50. Once Upon a Time Gate
51. The Milling Fields
52. Pandora's Yam
53. A Matter of Time
54. Where Do You Think You're Going?
55. Auf Wiedersehen Monty
56. Hard Hats Must Be Worn
57. Spring Cleaning
58. There's Always One More Bug
59. Variations on a Theme
60. Need for Speed
61. A Cracking Job
62. You'll Pick It Up Eventually
63. An Open-and-Shut Case
64. The Voyage Home
65. Grave Miscalculations
66. Dark Satanic Milling
67. Pipe Work
68. Protected Species
69. Extensible Architecture
70. Four Spring Durch Technik
71. Gotta Catch 'Em All
72. Why Don't Yams Eat Penguins?
73. Trick-Key Business
74. Disk Usage
75. Yam Kippur
76. A Race of Robots
77. Ready or Not...
78. Lost Little Robots
79. Show Me the Way Out of Here
80. The Race Against Slime
81. Fission Chips
82. Can't Keep a Good Yam Down
83. Nutcracker Man
84. On Your Head Be It
85. The Zoo
86. Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb
87. The Numerical Method
88. The Quick and the Dead
89. Fission Impossible
90. One Spring After Another
91. Partial Tunnel Syndrome
92. Enlightenment
93. Cannae Break the Laws o' Physics
94. Pipe Dream
95. The Martyrs
96. The Tower
97. The Miller's Tale
98. A Little Help from My Friends
99. Put It on a Floppy Disk
100. The Complaints Department
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Set 3
1. Flamebait
2. What's Red and Turns Green...?
3. Bugs
4. Rockless
5. Rock and a Hard Place
6. Pileup
7. There's a Catch
8. Damn That Yam
9. Carnival
10. Green Eggs and Yam
11. Synchronised Slaying
12. Combination Lock
13. Everything is Under Control
14. Acid Burn
15. Double Yammy
16. Curse of the Pyramid
17. Strawberry Yam
18. Containment Area
19. Stuck in the Chimney
20. This Little Piggy
21. As Long As I Know Where I Stand
22. The Survivors
23. Heartbroken
24. The Race Against Swine
25. Convoy
26. Frenetic Engineering
27. Spiral (Don't Fall)
28. The Last Resort
29. Deadly Rooms of Death
30. Mined How You Go
31. Eat Mine Returns!
32. Detonation Boulevard
33. Cold Storage
34. The Drowning Season
35. Round and Round the Garden
36. This Looks Simple Enough
37. Headbreak Hotel
38. A Brief Mystery of Slime
39. The Great Escape
40. Catch Me If You Can
41. Know Your Roll
42. What are Little Girls Made of?
43. Indigestion
44. Jailbirds
45. Home Improvement
46. Pipe Bombs
47. What the Eye Doesn't See
48. Life Skills
49. Exclusive Ore
50. The Fragile
51. Waste Not, Want Not
52. Wheel of Fortune
53. Pause for Deflection
54. Take Care of Me
55. Trouble at t'Mill
56. Heaven Can't Wait
57. Evasive Manoeuvres
58. Neither a Burrower Nor a Leader
59. Floating Bridge
60. Sinking Ships
61. Sisyphus
62. When It's Safe to Cross
63. Boulder to Cry On
64. The Final Problem
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