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Re: Wolfenstein Floor 10

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From: wand... Anthony William Cannon
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 21:51
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In article <Bo9BuE.Hqu@gtsi.uucp> rich@gtsi.uucp (Richard Lawrence) writes:
>In article <1992May14.1...@bradley.bradley.edu> fr...@buhub.bradley.edu (Paul Ondercin) writes:
>>
>>      Ok, so you want to know the secret. Always go right. Act as if you
>>      always  have your hand on the right wall, only search the walls
>>      on your right, and only use the first door directly to the right
>>      of you. Sooner or later you will have search every square block
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>The "right hand to the wall" method will get you out of a maze faster than
>the average mouse, but it is not failsafe if you follow it blindly. Consider:
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>|                                                |
>|   ---------------D---------------------------  |
>|   | <-                                      |  |
>|   -------------------------------------------  |
>|                                                |
>----------------------e---------------------------
>
>Where e=entrance, <- is stairs down, D is the door to the stairs.
>
>This is a highly oversimplified example, but it demonstrates the point:
>all the right-hand rule does for you is make sure you follow the entire
>outer perimeter of a maze. This is great for shrubbery mazes (impress
>your friends!) but lousy for large, computer generated mazes with several
>interdependent internal "islands" and stairs for entraance/egress instead
>of doors.

You shouldn't have clipped the rest of the article...
The original poster said that this worked in almost all levels of
Wolf. because there _aren't_ any of these right-hand loops until 
level 10 (or something like that).

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