Look at OrR's comment from Nov 12, 2004 on this level. Is this the tick he is describing? Sounds like. Amazing it took over 2 years for someone to publish it.
If I was playing this pack, I would play all day and all night to be the first. Then Cirenco would attack me once more, fueling my drive to snake more golds from him than I already have Cirenco might be Darth Vader, but then I am Luke Skywalker
No matter who's the first, they won't be the last. This trick doesn't look to difficult to master, especially since it's at the beginning of the level I have my focus elsewhere at this time.