Editing Cloner's Maze

{{Infobox Level New|
|name = Cloner's Maze
|image = [[Image:CCLP2 Level 147.png|300px]]
|levelset = [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]]
|level = 147
|password = IAQO
|hint = No fast maneuvers or split-second timing required here! Just use your brain.
|chips required = 14
|chips available = 14
|time = 999
|bold ms = 789
|bold lynx = 869

|difficulty ms = 5
|bold difficulty ms = 5
|bold complexity ms = 5

|difficulty lynx = 5
|bold difficulty lynx = 5
|bold complexity lynx = 5
}}

'''Cloner's Maze''' is the 147th level in [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]]. It is one of the [[Secret level]]s in CCLP2. As noted in the hint, there may not be any fast maneuvers or split-second timing required, but Cloner's Maze is nevertheless an excruciatingly hard puzzle at its hardest (as expected from [[Eric Schmidt]]'s level 154), though trivial in some cases and not too difficult in the early stages.

Maneuvering skills require sending [[monster]]s across changing landscapes into several [[bomb]]s, sticking monsters on [[trap]]s to deflect others, and using uncollected chips or even other monsters to deflect monsters into place. In fact, a split-second double-monster collision is used to provide a back-door entrance to the [[yellow key]]. The original solutions included cloning numerous [[glider]]s across the very top to eventually get the bombs open by brute force.

Cloner's Maze is the third of the three CCLP2 levels on which the bold route is unknown to everyone other than its single holder - the best public [[AVI]] and [[TWS]] solutions are 8 seconds short.

==Lynx Solution==
In the MS solution, Chip must walk through a [[trap]] on a watery corner, but in Lynx this forces Chip to drown. Later, a [[fireball]] crosses over a [[blue key]] before destroying the [[bomb]] guarding it, so this too would not work in Lynx as the [[blue key]] is erased. However, since [[glider]]s are not destroyed by [[fire]] in Lynx, there are more opportunities for collisions, and the level is solvable by other means. The key differences are getting to the [[green key]] and the lower [[blue key]], which correspond to the problems described above.

A simple method to reach the [[green key]] in Lynx from the start of the level is to first clone 16 [[glider]]s, destroying some [[bomb]]s and leaving a couple stuck in [[trap]]s. Then clone four more, but wait about [44] inbetween each so they don't collide in column 7. Now two of them will destroy the [[bomb]]s in the south-east corner, one is stuck in the [[trap]] at [16,14], and the last one makes its way around to destroy the [[bomb]] at [20,3], granting Chip access to the corridor above.

To destroy the [[bomb]] at [25,26], first get a [[glider]] facing east into the [[trap]] at [17,27], and then create a collision at [7,24] that sends another [[glider]] to free that trap. Thus the red herring from MS helps Chip in Lynx. Note that you can also create a collision at [7,21] that clones a [[fireball]] without needing the [[green key]].

Though the level is solvable in Lynx as it is, admittedly it is a considerably more complicated task. That being said, with careful planning and delicate timing, the optimal solution in Lynx is faster than in MS.

Alternately, you can edit the level so that the intended solution works. Simply remove the bothersome [[water]] tile, and switch the [[blue key]]s and [[blue lock]]s to their red counterparts.

== Walkthrough ==
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