Race the Clock 100% is actually impossible.
If you recall the level Cliffhanger (level 14 or 15), there's an issue. The level requires you to roll the marble around the circumference of the playing board, and then enter the maze from the upper-left corner. Once you get to the upper-right hand corner (on the second layer from the outside), there's this one ruby gem in a nook with a trapdoor. However, the passageway for this nook is actually narrower than the width of the ball. I've tried a few things, like slamming the marble into the gap to try and squeeze it through, and even quickly tilting the board so that the ball might "jump" off the surface, which of course didn't happen. So, unless I'm completely oblivious to some stupidly simple solution, I don't think this run is possible unless we disregard this gem.
Hey there! I've missed this post for a very long time! I don't remember ever seeing an unobtainable gem in the game. Unfortunally I don't have the game in a running capacity on this computer in the near future, so I can't go see this map myself, could you show me this unobtainable gem either with screenshots or video? (unobtainable items are always interesting) If it is indeed proven that this gem is unobtainable under normal circumstances, then yes, we should write in the category rules that this gem is an exception.
Yes!
In Cliffhanger, the largest of all the ice-themed levels, you can see the ruby sitting over the shutter trap in that alcove:
However, the ball can't fit through the 1-block-wide gap, so this gem is unobtainable. It's the only level that has an inaccessible gem.
Recently, one of the members in the Discord server I made managed to make a level editor, so now we can make custom maps for the game. There's an unofficial patch for this level that removes the blocks on the south side of the pocket, like so:
We may need to create two subcategories for Race the Clock 100%. I'm thinking Max Gems% and All Gems% for the patched version.
Shoutout to Pasza for coding the level creator and the unofficial patch.
