Unkillable Cat
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 18
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I've beem finding a fair bit of the new secret rooms in KDD, but this is the first one that actually has me stumped.

I know I'm supposed to align the mimics in a certain direction and I know I'm supposed to position myself on a certain spot so that when the roaches show up, I can squash them all without any of them crossing the arrows.

But I can't figure out where to turn and where to stand. The best setup I've found is turning clockwise twice and standing three to four squares east of the up arrow, but one roaches always escapes me (in the box above me).

I also notice that the mimic in the box to the right of me can "trap" his roaches so that I can deal with them later. I can also sometimes trap one roach above the mimic in the box above me.

Any pointers?

(The irony of the situation is that at the time of writing, I'm also stuck in the secret room of Level 22 of JtRH. There's a voodoo curse involved somehow, I just know it.)

Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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Yeah, this is the hardest of the secret rooms. Maybe even a little unfair too, but we needed a new challenge, right? ...right?

Anyway, you've got the right idea on the section to your right. After watching my demo from testing, I have 2 hints for you:

Good luck!

Game on,

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Unkillable Cat
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 18
Registered: 07-15-2005
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Still stuck. The problem now is the two roaches in the upper right box. I can arrange the mimics so that the bottom right one blocks his roaches, and that the top mimic can dispatch of one roach and save the other one for later.

But the thing is, the top right mimic cannot kill the lower roach because the upper roach is blocking him! Like so:

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MR.
.\\R

Why wasn't Beethro sensible enough to bring a gun along?

Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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More explicitly:

Game on,

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Unkillable Cat
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 18
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Thanks for the info. What I was missing was the 4 times bit, I kept approaching them head on, instead of doing it the right way.

Level 22 completed, now on to Level 23...and the dreaded 1N.

cbemom
Level: Delver
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another thanks for the help!

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