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Article #97Re: Wolfenstein Floor 10
From: wand... Anthony William Cannon
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 21:51
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). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- wand...@leland.stanford.edu I drew 2897 out of 3000 voice: (415)497-0900 [4mYes, they[m in the 1992-1993 Dorm Draw! fax: (415)497-0900 [4mare the same[m -- anthony cannon --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!wanderer From: wand...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anthony William Cannon) Subject: Re: Wolfenstein Floor 10 Message-ID: <1992May14.215128.15094@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: ne...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA References: <57695@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992May14.105510.16919@bradley.bradley.edu> <Bo9BuE.Hqu@gtsi.uucp> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 14 May 92 21:51:28 GMT Lines: 41 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit