×18,15; 25,14; 11,7

by the way - why there's crumby wall at 27,17?

×on 27,12. That way, the adder would move *before* the rattlesnake, forcing the rattlesnake to go North. (and other 2 golems would be on 18,15 and 11,7.

×The reason for the crumbly wall is to allow you to regain access to the platform, since killing the golem at 27,12 blocks the direct path. This also means that the trapdoor at 13,14 would be dropped, so you would need precise manipulation of the platform and snake (whilst avoiding the golem and spawned roaches) - this is why I asked if it was fun, it can be very unforgiving without unlimited undo.

×you are tripping the pressure plate at 29,8 with the rattlesnake, right? (and can't afford to delay it because of the fuse timer)

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Winner of the Erik Hermansen Award for Lifetime Architectural Achievement (2008)

Smitemasters' Selections:
Beethro and the Secret Society
Smitemastery 101 (A Hold for Beginners)

Other Holds

Layout and Aesthetics Award Winner (2006):
Figure or Ground (Multi-entrance room maze)

Most Promising Hold Award Winner (2007):
The Goblin (Monster-less puzzles)

Hold of the Year and Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2008)
Advanced Concepts - I made the Goblins, Fegundos, Eyes and Potions levels
(Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)

Creative Design Excellence in Entertainment Award Winner (2010):
Uncle Arable's Rooms (Bite-size lynchpins)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2010):
Going in Circles (An infinite loop)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2012):
Advanced Concepts 2-I made the Mirrors, Stalwarts and Hub levels
(More Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)


The Grinfidel Quadrilogy:
Labyrinthitis (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Domain of The Grinfidel (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Hunt for The Grinfidel
The Final Confrontation

Easy/Moderate Lynchpin Puzzles (playable in DROD:AE)
Aurora's Palace

Tough puzzles and Shapeshifting:
Choose your adventure

Reflected Rooms and Mirrors:
Reflections

More challenging puzzles:
Beethro's Generic Quest

Tar-switcher and arrow-rotator tokens.
Token Effort

Pressure Plate based puzzles:
Deconstructed Dungeon

Rooms differing by just one tile (Contest compilation):
Missing Pieces

Fun with scripting:
Beethro's Bad Dream

Other levels in Collaborative Holds
DROD 5: The Second Sky
DROD 4: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
DROD History Month Compilation
Way Forward
Copycat Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Compilation
Invisibility Compilation
One Room Hold Compilation
Unfortunate Architect Compilation
Lunchbreak Special
Cheap Tricks Compilation

×on turn 26, sword NE

×1N - Efficiency rooms aren't my personal cup of tea, but some other players do like them. I did appreciate the fact that there was at least one turn of slack in the initial briar race. I really liked the queen manipulation part at the end.

1S - I like this room. It's a little easier than the others on the level. But still interesting to play because you can choose how smart you want to be about cutting the adder's path. Like your other testers, my adder made one counterclockwise trip.

1S1W - The way these four interconnected chambers worked together was very cool. This room took a really long time to solve, but in the end, I forgave it. It had a clear and simple goal to survive the eyes at the end, and each monster served a clear purpose in helping or hindering Beethro from achieving it. Quite impressive.

If I had any complaint about 1S1W it would be the positions of the box obstacles in the beginning. After doing all the work to figure out that you need the snake, also having to prevent it from getting stuck on those boxes when stashed in the first chamber seemed like a gratuitous annoyance.

1E - The idea of four interconnected chambers didn't work as well in this case. Sending the queen from the first chamber into the eye/oremite chamber initially promised the richness of 1S1W. But then the next two chambers just seemed tacked on so that there would be four chambers. Only one golem is needed in the tar/goblin area.

1W - This room has a neat idea, but the painful extraction of the adder from the two rattlers at the beginning killed much of the fun for me. In the second chamber, I fed the adder until it was long enough to turn south.

secret - ... Well, I solved it, with mxvladi's encouragement above. I'm glad I don't have to do that again. This room has a large solution space, and each time I tried, the room offered very little indication of whether I was doing better or worse than the last time.

×1S1W - In my solution, I leave the eye at 23,13 alive, so the snake doesn't get stuck in that passage. I figured that keeping the snake from getting stuck would be part of the puzzle, but if it's frustrating then I'll probably rework that initial section since it doesn't affect the other parts of the room too much. Please can I also have a demo so I can check that you're doing everything the way I intended?

1E - by tacked on, do you mean that it's too easy or pointless? Also, where did you kill the final golem? (intended solution requires 2 golems)

2W - sorry to hear you spent so much time on it and didn't have fun, it's really only aimed at the hardcore optimisers (which is why it's a secret room, I hope people don't feel compelled to complete it when it's on the holds board if it's not their type of room)

1W - Question - did you solve this room the same way as in the title screen demo? I was always concerned about this room, as it's either like it or hate it. Right now I have 2 options, either make it secret, or change the first section. The second option seems more sensible, but then that would break the symmetry it has with 2W. I have no idea what to do with the room..

By the way, on level 2, 1E is the easiest room, but if you didn't like 1:1W it will probably be the most frustrating. 1N1E is the hardest but it's quite similar to 1:1S1W, in that everything is involved in the solution. 1S1E is different to all the other puzzles, it's mainly manipulation but also has a few lynchpins.

Edit: And just to check, in 1:1N, you reach the pressure plate on turn 85?

×Yes, I leave the eye at (23,13) alive too. It's the box at (27,13) that's annoying when stashing the snake.

×Golem killed at (28,19). Final tar blob stabbed with sword SW.

×No, my solution is not exactly the same as in the title screen demo. The first part ended up similar, but then as stated above, I made the adder turn south by feeding it. (A la Ssslitherin or Wolly Olly and the Adder.)

×Yes, I waited until turn 85 to step on the pressure plate.