You follow Octavius to the factory's robot maintenance area, and he frantically gesticulates at the control station for the spare parts printer. You log in and see that a job has been set up by one of the bots, which is very odd because they shouldn't have access.

The job was set to start running after hours, and then run all night. You cancel it, and try to work out what the strange set of instructions would have produced. It looks like some kind of small, autonomous object. It's hard to say what valley of despair they'd have created if they'd been spewing out of the printer all night.

What strange object was the printer set to build?

A = 0,0
A->B = 1,0
A->C = 0,1
A->D = (A->B) + (A->C)
BC
E = B + 0.5(B->C)
F = B + 0.5(B->D)
G = C + 0.5(C->D)
EF
EG
H = E + 0.5(E->F)
I = B + 0.5(B->F)
J = B + 0.5(B->G)
K = E + 0.5(E->G)
KH
HI
JK
L = I + 0.5(I->B)
M = J + 0.5(J->B)
HL
KM
N = D + 0.5(D->E)
LN
MN
O = H + 0.5(H->I)
P = K + 0.5(K->J)
OP
Q = H + 0.5(H->O)
R = K + 0.5(K->P)
QR
						

Submitting answers

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  !answer This is the answer

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Hints

If you're having trouble, you can highlight the obscured text below for help. Each bullet point is a separate hint.

• These are instructions for making something.
• You'll need a sheet of paper to solve this puzzle.
• Making things out of paper often involves folding.
• Not sure which way to fold? There are two basic origami folds. Reread the puzzle for a hint.

Solution

If you're totally stuck, these spoilers will take you through the steps of solving the puzzle. Again, each bullet point is a separate step.

• The co-ordinates mark points on a square piece of paper. A (0,0) is at the bottom-left. B is found by moving from A along the bottom of the paper to (1,0), i.e. the bottom right corner. C is similar, but going upwards.
• Point D is reached by starting at A and applying the same movement as from A to B, and then A to C, to reach the opposite corner of the paper.
• Instructions such as "BC" indicate making a valley fold along the line between B and C.
• Mark later points, such as E, after making all earlier folds.
• E is reached by starting at B and moving half the distance from B to C. All the later points follow the same pattern.
• After completing the instructions, turn the object over.
• You've made an origami frog! "Frog" is the answer.