Nuntar
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Re: The Second Sky : Fire Hotlands : 1 North, 1 East (+1)
This room depends on understanding how brained monsters choose their move. Beethro moves first, so after his move, the tar baby is distance 4 from Beethro. It evaluates all the squares around itself, then narrows the selection down to those with the least distance (distance 3). Then, from those, it prefers North, then other orthogonal directions, then diagonal directions.
That means that if Beethro moves only N, NE or E, the tar baby will always make the same move, remaining exactly three squares SW of him. Now, if Beethro moves around the brain and then moves NE, the tar baby has only one move that keeps at distance 3 and that move is onto the brain, which is impossible -- so it will move N instead, enlarging the distance to 4.
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