key-smiter wrote:If I'm still stuck in a few days, I may need to post a demo of my dilemma. I'm not being particularly articulate here.
My solution is almost four times as long as the best one, but what I did was
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×Clear out all the tar around 5 and 2. This took a lot of moves.
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×Then I cut the tar around 4 back as far as possible.
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×Then I cut the tar around 3 back as far as possible, and did a well-known trick to prevent any further babies from forming there (as long as I stayed to the north).
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×Then I went back and trimmed back around 4 and 5 as far as possible again.
Then I was able to clear out the tar mother, approaching from the north.
I'm not sure why that rattler is not behaving. He should come right in after you once you clear the mother and drop the trapdoors.
[Last edited by kzc at 01-19-2007 03:30 PM]