joachim wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:06 am
fuzzel wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:03 pm
Btw, does anyone remember a sort of unofficial competition in one of the magazines where people wrote in claiming to have solved Sphinx in the fewest number of moves?
I found such a discussion in Pendragon's column (Electron User) yesterday, which seemed to imply that it had been an ongoing correspondence:
https://archive.org/details/ElectronUse ... 9/mode/2up
i assume the clerics were flogged once again... running that solution through my C Sphinx Adventure in walkthrough mode (where your lamp doesn't run out and you're invincible, so you don't need to rub lamp or throw axe or throw sword, and a whole game takes milliseconds) shows that you end up lost in the desert with this solution as well as the previous one they'd published /facepalm
should anyone care, there's a missing "south" (shown here in capitals) in the "..., North, *SOUTH*, East, West, East. South, North, kneel..." at the end.
here's the full corrected solution:
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n
n
in
take lamp
out
s
take bottle
e
e
d
light lamp
s
w
s
take sword
down
take food
w
take water
s
throw sword
take sword
s
take wand
n
e
throw water
e
wave wand
cross bridge
e
take books
up
w
n
e
s
s
feed crocodile
e
s
s
up
wave wand
rub ring
n
e
e
cross bridge
e
s
s
pay troll
cross bridge
w
s
n
e
e
throw sword
up
e
s
kill dragon
yes
take teeth
n
w
down
n
e
n
down
wave wand
cross bridge
w
w
throw teeth
w
n
e
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
kneel
wave wand
that gets me 230/800 in 101 turns.
the earlier solution referenced in that Electron User article is here:
https://archive.org/details/ElectronUse ... 1/mode/2up
the error in that solution is again in the desert. this time there's an "east, east" that should be "south, east" instead. here's the corrected version:
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n
get bottle
n
in
get keys
get lamp
out
s
e
e
d
light lamp
s
get carrot
w
w
get wand
e
s
get sword
d
get food
w
fill bottle
e
n
throw water
e
wave wand
cross bridge
get rug
n
feed rabbit
carrot
e
n
e
s
s
feed crocodile
e
s
s
u
wave wand
d
n
n
w
w
n
n
w
s
w
s
e
s
s
pay troll
cross bridge
w
s
n
e
e
u
e
s
kill dragon
yes
get teeth
n
w
d
kill ogre
no
sword
n
e
n
d
wave wand
cross bridge
n
w
w
throw teeth
w
n
e
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
s
e
w
e
s
n
kneel
wave wand
that gets me 230/800 in 108 turns.
the solution/walkthrough that's on the web (
http://www.solutionarchive.com/file/id%2C20885/) that was already mentioned in this thread gets me 710/800 in 367 turns. note though that that's on my C Sphinx (as are all the other numbers here), so it's possible the issue is with my scoring rather than with the solution. if anyone has a 800 points solution or a link to one, i'd be interested to see it! (or indeed any other solution. i plan on including all of these in my "collector's edition" zip file
)