omgitsgir
Level: Roachling
Rank Points: 13
Registered: 10-15-2006
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Ugh, talk about your nightmares! Getting rid of all the trapdoors in this room is one thing, but I can't even manage to leave a path for myself after I hit the orb in the center of the room. Whenever I get rid of a path that requires diagonal movement, I just make another one. I know I'm supposed to move diagonally near the top right corner of the red stuff, but it's not working out well.

I've actually gone through a list of corridors I need to go through moving diagonally, but I can't seem to piece them together. Any help?

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schep
Level: Smitemaster

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Registered: 03-01-2005
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It's been a long time since I solved this (so long that I don't have a demo), but this is what I think I did:
Take a screenshot and draw a simple path with no diagonals from the orb to the red door. Try and figure out whether you could step on all the trapdoors that are not on that path before hitting the orb. If not, where is your path pinching something too tight so you can't get in and back out of a certain region, or cutting off trapdoors altogether? Undo your drawing in your graphics program and try a different path, until you find a good one.

As I look at this some more, I can spot a few points forcing the final no-diagonal path to do certain things, but I don't remember exactly how it goes, and I'd probably need to scribble on another screenshot to figure it out again.

disoriented
Level: Smitemaster

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Registered: 08-07-2007
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It's been several days of no luck. I need a spoiler for this room: maybe just the correct path to take from the orb to the red door?

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Briareos
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Actually, when looking at the demos for this room I noticed something - the shortest demos are less than 130 moves long...


Granted, it's not the intended solution, but it's a lot less frustrating...

np: Can - Yoo Doo Right (Anthology (Disc 1))

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CuriousShyRabbit
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As schep described, my strategy was to drop as many trapdoors as I could before hitting the orb. There are literally tons of different ways to do this.

Here is a screenshot of what my room looked like when I hit the orb.

disoriented
Level: Smitemaster

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perfect, thank you Briareos and Rabbit.

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[Last edited by disoriented at 04-25-2009 11:03 PM]