eytanz
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	Challenge! Dugan's Dungeon - Third Seventeenth Level: Once north

This one is not for tar haters:

Make it so that you are standing on the checkpoint, and the entire room marked by 1 above (i.e. everything beyond the final door) is filled with tar, and has no tar babies in it, before killing the mother.

[Edited by eytanz on 05-10-2003 at 11:16 PM GMT: Typo]

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zex20913
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Ummm...I don't think it's possible to get it as you described. There are one or two spots where I think tar babies must grow if the entire space is to be filled with tar. I just tested it, and there is no possible way to both avoid tar babies growing and have the space full of tar. Please clarify this challenge.

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It appears that you will need more than 40 moves to successfully clear enough tar to get the setup you described when it next grows, so I think it to be impossible. However, I am prone to making mistakes and so I might be wrong...

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eytanz
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Of course it's possible - I'd never post a challange that I hadn't completed myself.

Here's a screenshot of the state of the room once the challange is completed:



Hint:


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zex20913 wrote:
Ummm...I don't think it's possible to get it as you described. There are one or two spots where I think tar babies must grow if the entire space is to be filled with tar. I just tested it, and there is no possible way to both avoid tar babies growing and have the space full of tar. Please clarify this challenge.

while (Challenge_Not_Solved == true){
PlayDROD();
Other_Life--;
Eye_Stress++;
}
Post_On_Drod.net();

Solved it. Very long and mostly waiting.

Tar babies do grow in about five places; note that in the screenshot the topmost yellow door is open.


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zex20913
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Alright...looks like I will be taking this challenge shortly then.

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agaricus5
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Oh, I thought you meant that you need to be standing on the checkpoint with all the tar of the lower areas intact.

Sorry! (I told you I'm prone to mistakes)

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eytanz
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I probably wasn't very clear... I had a hard time finding a phrasing which describes the situation without posting the screenshot (which I didn't want to do because my webspace is limited and I often remove unnecessary things, which means that eventually it will become a dead link)

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Man, it took me 2352 moves to get this one, during which time I killed 514 monsters.

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I'm not sure whats worse the number of moves it took or the fact that you counted them.