key-smiter
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Clearly the decoy must be used to kill the eye. So either I need to also use this decoy to kill the last snake (doesn't appear to be possible) or have Beethro lead the roach in a complicated hot-plate dance while the snakes are eliminated (doesn't seem to be possible either).

Which of these two impossibilities should I be leaning toward?

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Chaco
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You need to pursue the second option - the roach will be the last thing that dies in this room.

Oh, and don't worry, this is just the easiest of several rooms like this.

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File: TT First Level 1N1E.demo (770 bytes)
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As I'd feared.

The attached demo shows my typical progress - a bare minimum of snakes killed before Beethro gets trapped. (I've done a little better than the 22 moves here, but not much.) I always end roughly the same, regardless of whether I wait a few moves before barging in . . .

I'm guessing that this is not the right approach. Can someone tell me what is?

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jbluestein
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A basic guideline to all of these rooms:




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Thanks . . . I'd not have figured this out on my own.

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I'm still here, and after a few months of sporadic effort, I am now just one move short. I've attached a demo of this "best" effort . . . and any hints to wring one more move out of this room will be very helpful.

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key-smiter wrote:
I'm still here, and after a few months of sporadic effort, I am now just one move short. I've attached a demo of this "best" effort . . . and any hints to wring one more move out of this room will be very helpful.

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Aren't you posting in the wrong topic?

Anyway, in that room, you do everything right until the end, and there's only one small thing you need to change to clear the room.


I hope that helps

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Rheb wrote:
Aren't you posting in the wrong topic?

{sigh} Yes. I can't even ask for help properly . . . . but I did, with your suggestion, complete the room at long last.

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