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Here, it would take 3 moves to reach the goal, but 4 moves if it wanted to go from goal to start afterwards. Once the slide has been used once, it disappears and you may go back across it in any direction. The robot will slide the direction the arrow is pointing.
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You may enter any direction except directly opposite of the arrow, and the spot directly opposite of the arrow must not be a wall. The robot counts the slide as a part of moving onto the square. Can you paint the walls and add the special squares in a way that forces the robot to take the most number of steps? Special squares cannot be placed on starting squares or goal squares. The special squares are 2 x slide squares(red, with an arrow) and 2 x slowing squares(blue). The robot moves from one empty cell to an adjacent empty cell (Horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally). The robot automatically knows the shortest path (including the effects of the special squares) and its decisions cannot be influenced. The game is over once the robot touches the last goal, it does not have to go back to start. A robot is programmed to start on the Start(green) square and visit all of the goal(purple) squares using the shortest path possible. You are allowed to paint some of its cells as walls (black), while the remaining cells are either empty(white) or hold a special piece. I have some more ideas I would like to try if people like this kind of puzzle. I wanted to know how the best possible solution would change, if I were to add in special squares with different effects. This puzzle stems from these type of questions by Dimity Kamenetsky.Ĭreating the hardest 7x7 maze Creating the hardest 6圆 maze