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Hi,

Is the game maybe broken?

I am always getting the same results for the directions like a static page.
I can move 10 times down, and after i move again up i am again outside the edge.
Same Problem for right and left.

Regards,
Grammaton

You have to specify all the steps from the start every time. So, when you want to move 10 times down and 1 up, you should specify "DDDDDDDDDDU".

Thank you for the reply!
Now i can get forward, but there is still some interesting feature.

DD => keep moving
DDU => boom

Seem like i cannot move backward.
I try to solve it using the Oneway

Grammaton wrote:Seem like i cannot move backward.

It's written on the challenge page. "Don't cross your tracks."

Ahh ok,
now its working

thank you very much tails!

Seems the Map is bigger than i assumed, i started drawing it using a pen and paper but i have almost a DINA4 Full and i am afraid of that the the page is not big enough, since this i the second one i have to redraw

It is pretty big

Silly question: is there really an exit at an edge of the maze or do i have to look for a hole somewhere in the middle? I'm pretty sure, that i have drawn the entire maze, but all edges are closed

I had a program that memorized the maze as it went through (mostly so I could pause processing and verify the results and then resume). It also allowed me to view the maze.

The exit is definitely on the edge.

I'm not sure what the benefit is in drawing a map, or assuming the exit is at the edge - I didn't do either, and don't see any more efficient way than how I actually solved it.

??? and what was your way?

Since i have no great skills in programming except some basics in perl and python, i thought it would be easier to draw a map than spending weeks in learning a specific programming language.

The whole sense of this site is to get/apply programming skills

Python is fine, that's what I used - learn how to use it to automate sending simple web requests (with urllib or urllib2), and then figure out how to decide what path to try next at each point.

I don't want to hint much about the actual algorithm I used, but it was about as simple as it could get - nothing complicated.

- nt -

For those wondering, it takes 100-200 steps to solve this maze. Consider that before doing it by hand.

Watch out i think you changed the appache version cause on this challenge the split causes an error at line 52. it says it is deprecated.