hrm. I was going to tell you where I put my decoys, but the difference between my score and the best is like 1000 moves, because he placed his decoys better - in such as a way as to cause the roaches and mud babies to block further spawns.
these hints are from watching the best demo:
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×the first decoy goes in the bottom left just covering the bottom left queen and one square east of her. this will cover the mud babies and cause her to block herself with her own spawn shortly
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×the second decoy goes on the far left side of the screen, midway between the two queens. place on the same column as the queens so they will block themselves with their own spawn
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×the third decoy goes in the little room mid-upper-right, place so that it kills the queen and keeps the roaches from wandering into the pits
that should be enough hintage, but this is a warning in case you're still losing roaches and not seeing why:
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×but that's not enough, before you can place the third decoy, you have to carefully drag her first wave or two of roaches out of the room, then go down to the decoy potion. be careful coming back up the hall, too, to stick to the west wall as much as possible
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hey, how do you do the hints so they appear in one table with expanding additional boxes, instead of 3 separate tables of one box each?
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I hated this room tons, but not nearly so much as I hated levels 16, 18, and 22
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