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Do I really have to run around the loop 512 times to free the guard? That would take on the order of 3 hours, which is absurd. Is there a trick here I'm not seeing?
05-30-2012 at 12:54 PM
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jwanders wrote:
Do I really have to run around the loop 512 times to free the guard? That would take on the order of 3 hours, which is absurd. Is there a trick here I'm not seeing?

OMG this room sucks so bad.
I downloaded a keystroke recorder and replayed it hundreds of times.

(Grudging credit to the architect. It's a creative mechanism. But maybe 3-4 gates would be enough!)

07-29-2021 at 01:57 PM
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Yikes. This is a "soft" enforcement mechanism in that it discourages a particular solution without outright forbidding it. I suspect that the implementation was meant as a joke.

What you're supposed to do is

Click here to view the secret text
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