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From: games@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fun and Games)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Fixes for the impossible wanderer screens.
Message-ID: <5715@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 13 Nov 88 09:23:57 GMT
Reply-To: games@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fun and Games)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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I checked out the buggy wanderer screens (13,16,17,20), and the fixes that
Randy Davis posted (rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM). I also worked on 18, but haven't been
able to figure it out yet. Will the poster who said it was solvable please
certify that it is consistently solvable.

Randy's suggested changes to 20 and 16 are small and don't seem to change the
character of the screens much, so I went ahead and installed them (thanks 
Randy). The changes to 13 and 17 seemed to me to be bigger though, with the
only tough puzzle in 13 made relatively easy, and the corner puzzle in 17
pretty much removed. I think there's still a bug in Randy's 17 too.

After lots of playing around I found that changing only one character makes 13
possible, though REALLY hard. The only change is the deletion of one '='
character. I've solved my changed screen 13 four times in a row, but the
solution is tricky to the point were you might not want to use my change.

Screen 13.
--------------------cut here ---------------------
\ *OOOOOOO*                 * OOOOOOOOO*
O\ *OOOOO*          *       = OOOOOOOOO<
 *\ *OOO*   ================= OOOOOOOO<<
   \ *O*      O O O O O O   = OOOOOOO<<<
    \ *     :             < = OOOOOO<<<<
  /  \      :      *        = OOOOO<<<<<
*/          :>           /    OOOO<<<<<<
/           :             < = OOO<<<<<<<
            :  * * @ * *    / OO<<<<<<<<
            :>           /    O<<<<<<<<<
+=****                   S<            -
X=T                *     =: \          -
================ ==       :  \         -
>O:O>*<O=::::::= O= ===       \        -
>*O*O>*:**OOOO*  := =O=========\ O O O O
*:::*::*=::::::= ==    A       *:*:*:*:*
########################################
--------------------cut here ---------------------

Screen 17 seemes to have three fatal flaws. There are the land mines and the
rock dropped by the baby monster in the lower right hand corner, and the gold
to the right of the teleporter (just how were you going to get that one
Randy?). If anybody can find a way around any of these flaws without changing
the screen, please post it. My solution was to move the teleport destination
to one of the land mines (it's not really needed in its old location), and to
move a rock and its dirt up one. This clobbers an '=' and changes the nature
of some of the traps, but at least all of the traps are still there. I've
solved my changed screen 17 twice.

Screen 17.
--------------------cut here ---------------------
 O    O  \OOO*OO>   O    O   OOO   !O O=
        * \OOOO/ ***     \*=:::: !X!OO:=
      \ =  \OO/              ====== :::=
      =* +>::/      <               /\:=
   @   \  !        \     <   ======: = =
        \          !*!        S  *+O =T*
                O  !!!>  /   ======:  ==
=*===           >       /      S     O -
*= !*=                                 -
 =      =\        >                /   -
   <===   \               <=======*== =*
 /       <= ==            = OO OO =   *=
=>           *\           = /O O\ =>>>/!
=>       <=====   <<<   = = =***= : !*A*
*  \*=======* >  =*=*!=*=         =#####
########################################
########################################
--------------------cut here ---------------------

John McKernan.
games@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU  aka  jmckerna@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU.
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Sig?! I'm much too busy intalling and improving games to come up with a sig!