CCLP4 Leaks

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Now that the set has been out for a bit, I figured I'd give a retrospective on the leaks, which of your guesses were correct, and what you missed:



Beware! Here be spoilers if you are playing blind!

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Since the speculations have been in this thread, I'll reply here rather than in the announcement thread.



I found the following levels in the trailer:




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The Three Trials (Michael Sugantino)


Fire Factory (BlazingApollo)


Rivets (Joshua Bone)


Nuclear Energy for Smarties and Dummies (Trevor Hedges)


Ice in a Blender (Jeffrey)


Monorail (Tyler)


It Suits the Purpose (Zane)


Puuf (Rock)


Bind Mender (Miika)


Greenian Motion (Josh)


Monster Swapper (Andrew Menzies)


Stratagem (Derek)


They're Not Called Blocks for Nothing (Eric Schmidt)


One Who Raids Tombs (Eddy Limb)


Sewerway (Archie Pusaka)


Dual (Markus O.)


The Key Issue (Ida R.)


Blue Tooth (J.B.)


Chasing Chips (Cybersmack)


Block Parking (chipster1059)


Anaconda (Henry Potts)



Some more observations about the trailer:

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The trailer shows 21 levels, one level from each designer who got levels in CCLP4.

While I'm at it, I might as well speculate more on older hints:



Producing -> Mental Marvel Monastery


Jumble -> Fire is my Enemy


Apartment -> Condo Management


Monster Lab -> Seven Layer Salad


Sapphire Cavern -> Ravaged


Twisted Chambers -> Tropical Hibiscus


Amsterdam -> World of a Thousand Flames


Floating Plaza -> Spatial Ruins (maybe this is the one that got renamed to Ruinous Plaza?)


Well of Wishes -> Beautiful Struggle
All of this was correct! Congratuations, ruben, you really know your custom levels!

Guessing time, starting with the leak I got



The lowest time limit is 60 and the highest time limit is 999. 2 of the 3 levels with a 999 time limit are by the same designer.



Time limit 60: Shemozzle


Time limit 999: Duplex, Repair the (Automatic) Caution Doors, One Tank's Adventure



EDIT: The hint says nothing about there being just one level with time limit 60. So I think Blobs in a Tin Can also made it in, and possibly also Stratagem.

This would have been totally correct, if not for one thing you couldn't foresee: we changed the time limit of Duplex from 999 to 700 (but it's in the set). The third level with a 999 time limit is Gimmick Isle by Tyler Sontag. Also, there are actually two levels with a 60-second time limit, as Stratagem also exists.

Your personalized leak: Two levels are in the same slot as the level their walls were originally from.

Anyone find these yet?

Your personalized leak: Two community-nominated levels will appear in the final set.

These were Block Parking by chipster1059, from the Pineapple Pack, and Half of You, Half of Me by Rock Généreux, from the Inchworm Pack.

The highest and second highest rated level for "fun" in CCLP4 voting were ranked 152nd and 588th in CCLP1 voting, respectively.



The 588th ranked one was probably one that was considered too difficult for CCLP1. I heard Repugnant Nonsense got very good ratings, I guess it's in top two.

You're right, it is in the top two! It's #2. What could #1 be? I'll give a hint: Unlike CCLP3, CCLP4's highest rated level is one of its smallest.

• Even if you didn't make the keys-to-designers connection immediately, there are some hints that the different key colors have to do with CCLP2, CCLP3, CCLP1, and CCLP4 in order. First is the fact that we already knew the first three but not the last. Second is the number of monsters Chip must dodge before entering each corridor of keys--2, 3, 1, and 4, in that order. And finally, pay attention to the force floors. This is a bit trickier; anyone know what they represent? It's not necessary to solve the clue, but could help, and confirms something you technically don't know yet but could probably guess.

This was the only clue nobody got from the Monument video, but it's nothing major. The number of force floors between two sets' key repositories is equal to the number of years that passed between those sets' release dates. In essence, this confirmed that CCLP4 would be releasing in 2017 (though you were all probably pretty sure about that already).