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Originally Posted by JHammond

A close rereading of the rules makes me believe this is OK:

A ROBOT Has Climbed the Pyramid if it contacts the pyramid in:
A: Sequential Order (levels 0,1,2,3)) during ascent
B: no more that 2 levels simultaneously

So even to a bot is hooking around the horizontal bar, it's only contacting the zone the bar is in, even if it it extends into the upper plane.

This is the key here. The way the rules are written it explicitly mentions "contacts", which means that the robot must physically touch the pyramid within that level to be considered in it (I don't see how projecting into the plane can be considered contacting).

This does make climbing the corners of the pyramid a more hazardous proposal, since it's fairly easy to contact a tiny portion of the pyramid just barely in level 2 while still contacting level 0 at the corners.