Synthesizer

Eighty-eight keys on a real piano, eighty-eight tokens in our solution. Coincidence? Absolutely. But still cool ╰(▔∀▔)╯

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Grid	Code Size	Leaderboard	Cycles	Leaderboard	Date
13x13x13	88	#66	14.089	#565	2026-02-24

Solution

a=abs(x)
b=abs(y+2)
if z>-3 and z<2 then
if a<6 and y==4 and z>-2 then
if z<1 and(x+btoi(x>-1))%2<1 then return 3 end
return 1
end
if y>2 and y<5 then return 6 end
if(z==-1 or b==4)and a==b then return 3 end
end

How it works

The synth has three parts: the keys, the purple body, and the stand underneath.

The keys sit at y=4 in a thin slab. Every key starts WHITE, then certain ones get painted BLACK to make the sharps. The trick is (x+btoi(x>-1))%2 which creates an alternating pattern that skips correctly at x=0, just like a real keyboard where there’s no sharp between E and F. The black keys only render on the back half (z<1) so they sit raised behind the white ones.

The body is a purple block at y=3 and y=4 that extends slightly deeper in z, wrapping around and behind the keys like a synth casing.

The stand uses abs(y+2) to define four diagonal legs meeting at a center rail. The legs appear where abs(x)==abs(y+2), forming an X-shape in the x-y plane. The bottom rail at z=-1 connects everything together, and the top rail at abs(y+2)==4 (y=2) forms the horizontal support right under the body.