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Author Name:Daniel Stitt
Submitted By:Rabscuttle
Hold Name:Desert Plateau
Theme:Limited Resources contest entry
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Number of Levels:1
Number of Rooms:10
Number of Monsters:72
Version:DROD: The City Beneath (3.2)
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Beethro explores a desert plateau where a mad architect is rumoured to live.

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This small hold (6 puzzle rooms) was originally my entry for the Limited Resources contest of January '06.
06-11-2008 at 03:51 AM
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Here's a tasty sampler of Rabscuttle's puzzles that have waited far too long to find their way to the Holds board.

Among other things, you'll find a couple original ways of using roaches to restrict Beethro's movement, a classic mud efficiency puzzle, and possibly my absolute favorite mimic puzzle ever.

My main criticism of this hold is there's not more of it!
06-11-2008 at 03:58 AM
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A truly lovely hold. And that mimic puzzle, man, that's a doozy. (Made harder by the fact that experimenting is a little difficult, since you have to start with the oh-so-crucial decoy placement.) This is hard; but for those who like challenges, it's well worth it. (For those who don't: take a look at it anyway. Even before I managed to solve anything, I marveled at the cleverness of the challenges.)
06-12-2008 at 09:29 AM
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Not that it matters much, but I stumbled into an US in 2W
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Oh, and I like the hold. Except for the rattlesnake room...
06-16-2008 at 11:30 AM
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Blondbeard wrote:
Oh, and I like the hold. Except for the rattlesnake room...
Yeah, same here. I didn't really see the point of that room. But the excellent mimic puzzle more than makes up for it. :)

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06-16-2008 at 11:36 AM
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Thanks for the nice words :)

An unintended solution in 2W is one that
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I've also seen a couple of minor unintended bits in 1N1W. But for a hold that's been sitting in the wings for two years, I'm not too fussed.
06-17-2008 at 04:40 AM
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Rabscuttle wrote:
But for a hold that's been sitting in the wings for two years, I'm not too fussed.

Let's hope the DNF team thinks that way too! Oh wait...

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06-17-2008 at 04:42 AM
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Rabscuttle wrote:
Thanks for the nice words :)

An unintended solution in 2W is one that
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Yep! That kind of US.
06-17-2008 at 10:13 AM
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