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35 from 30 Nov 2021 to 24 May 2026
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2026 2

  1. Approaching a Limit (Mathematically)
  2. Combining Rate and Instructions to Create Beautiful Madness

2025 5

  1. Building Number Factories in Beltmatic
  2. Conquering the Final Cycle
  3. Surrendering Optimally
  4. Introducing MechA, the Opus Magnum Metric of Your Nightmares
  5. Finding 94123 Solutions to a Math Problem

2024 8

  1. Celebrating New Achievements in NES Tetris
  2. Separating Litharge at Top Speed
  3. Reaching Long-Awaited Perfection on Opus Magnum’s Final Level
  4. Revisiting Number Theory and the Impossible Puzzle
  5. Solving Puzzles Faster Than Humanly Possible
  6. Optimizing Cost in Opus Magnum
  7. Defeating Refined Bronze (and losing a cow bet)
  8. Looking Beyond the NES Tetris Game Crash

2023 5

  1. Matching Patterns using Opus Magnum
  2. Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash
  3. Memorializing Babble Royale
  4. Recapping the 2023 Opus Magnum Tournament
  5. Tracking the global Opus Magnum records

2022 11

  1. Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
  2. Keeping Classic Tetris Interesting
  3. Solving Freudenthal’s Impossible Problem
  4. Battling the entire world in Opus Magnum
  5. Excelling at DIVE via number theory
  6. Breaking “Crypt of the Necrodancer” for profit
  7. Using Opus Magnum computers.. irrationally
  8. Simulating Rule 110 in Opus Magnum
  9. Telling the tale of two tetrations
  10. Optimizing Instructions in Opus Magnum
  11. Recapping the 2022 Opus Magnum Tournament

2021 4

  1. Having the Last Word in Babble Royale
  2. Making a computer in Opus Magnum
  3. Building the Waterbear spaceship
  4. Playing Opus Magnum by different rules