The Lab

The Buried Plate

A brass plate lies under a floor of cargo crates. Shove them around and read what is etched under them — except the floor only ever shows you one mark at a time.

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How it works
  1. A crate slides any distance, but only along its own axis.

  2. The plate is etched under the crates. Move a crate off a square to read the mark below it.

    covered
    read
  3. There is only ever one window. Uncovering the next mark buries the last one, so the plate has to be read one mark at a time.

    this one is open
    move, and it is the other
The goal

Read every mark on the plate.

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