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Here's a post for variants on jumping snake puzzles.

This topic will be open for anyone who wishes to create variants on the jumping snake puzzles, or puzzles in a variant someone else created. To begin there's just one variant, in which you cannot become trapped, but open space is your constant enemy...

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08-21-2006 at 12:17 AM

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Erik, I think when you made my, uh, terrible and horrible position, you didn't think it all the way through...

unless I have this wrong...to get out, I don't do a /single thing/.

Edit: It's 2AM. Right and wrong mean NOTHING to me. NOTHING.

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Banjooie wrote:
Erik, I think when you made my, uh, terrible and horrible position, you didn't think it all the way through...

unless I have this wrong...to get out, I don't do a /single thing/.

Edit: It's 2AM. Right and wrong mean NOTHING to me. NOTHING.

Ah, well, 2 am's happen to the best of us

08-21-2006 at 11:37 AM

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Hmmm. Turn #42 is coming up, and I think I see a possible snake death that the owner can do nothing to prevent. Death is several turns away, but it depends on some neighbors.

I will say no more for now.

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08-21-2006 at 12:36 PM

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Really? I can't see anyone getting stuck anywhere they cannot 180 out of, but I've decided I'm really bad at this game.

Meanwhile, I'm really arriving at the already pretty-crowded top-left corner, but there's nothing I can do to prevent it.

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Really? I can't see anyone getting stuck anywhere they cannot 180 out of, but I've decided I'm really bad at this game.

Once it becomes irreversible (or gets reversed), I will post details. That will be sometime today.

Meanwhile, I'm really arriving at the already pretty-crowded top-left corner, but there's nothing I can do to prevent it.

Nope. The corners are definitely getting busy. Looks like the arena encourages congregating in the corners.

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08-21-2006 at 02:21 PM

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I'm looking forward to hear about it - I don't think it's me, since while my fate is pretty dependent on other snake's actions right now - still, assumingI haven't made yet another miscalculation, it will be several days before I can be placed in a truely hopeless situation, and I think the fastest way to kill me involves someone else commiting suicide.

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There will be an imminent snake death in a number of turns from now (turn 66?)

08-21-2006 at 03:48 PM

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Not quite yet. It depends on a neighboring snake's move, I think. But in about 5 minutes, it will probably be true.

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I retract my previous comment about an imminent snake death. I was pretty sure we were about five minutes away from someone being locked into a death spiral, but after further examination the situation I was looking at developed an additional complexity. More details in...five minutes or so.

(Sergenth's comment about an imminent snake death may or may not be still true...I don't know where he was looking.)

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Well, the potential imminent snake death I saw avoided it, thanks to a bump instead of a jump by another snake in the lower right-hand corner.

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Aaand...it doesn't matter anyway.

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EDIT: Looks like zex and I saw the same thing...

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Actually, there *is* an unavoidable serpent death now.

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×In that case, Jolima would have been the first dead snake. As it stands, Timo006 has a decision as to go to the middle or not in a few turns.

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×In that case, Jolima would have been the first dead snake. As it stands, Timo006 has a decision as to go to the middle or not in a few turns.

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Actually, there *is* an unavoidable serpent death now.

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×Banjooie will not be able to leave his chamber - there are currently 3 spots he can jump into once he's out, but one will be filled by bflatjeff and two will be filled by tim0006 before he can reach any of them.

Wow...now there was an unexpected result.

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Uh, was that supposed to be an edit? We had a post-collision.

Also, my post explains why Banjooie is not, in fact, dead.

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I don't think the first snake to die will be one of the undead snakes...

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×Actually, Banjooie can still get out - the gap in the middle-right ring is in the same column, as well as the corresponding three slots in the upper-right.

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Wait, has anyone of us actually checked where Banjooie is?

I just did, and he's in the lower left corner. :blush

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I don't think the first snake to die will be one of the undead snakes...

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08-21-2006 at 04:23 PM

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Oh, that was really, really hard to see... :look

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But congratulations Bajooie. At least you will not end up somewhere in the middle

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Alas, alack, my ex-partner snake will once again die.

I say that, but I truly mean: Huzzah! Now my chances of victory are 1/42! (not factorial, punctuation.)

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Is anyone keeping track of which snake has travelled the furthest? (the jumpiest)

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I'm pretty sure it's Niccus--#11.

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Question for clarification: If you're in this posistion (no real secret, just an image)

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can you jump left or will you automatically bump right?

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Automatically bump right.

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Is anyone keeping track of which snake has travelled the furthest? (the jumpiest)

I think Zex is right about it being Niccus for now, but I'll overtake him in one turn when I jump over one more serpent.

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