This post was released for Situation 15 of Bitcoin Magazine as portion of a series of articles about puzzles and games that started with Issue 12.
Time for maze crawling! This is a maze that I invented in 1996. I first known as it “4-dimensional maze” (you’ll figure out why), but I do not like that definition much. It’s more like a self-referential maze, a difficult concept.
You will need two coloured pencils (red and blue for example) and a notepad for bookkeeping in case you want to submit your answers for a prize (see below).
BACKGROUND STORY AND HOW TO CRAWL
Two prisoners are trapped in a maze. But it is not an ordinary maze, as the actions of every single prisoner determine the choices of the other. The maze is produced of a square grid of rooms. Some rooms have arrows painted on the floor. The rooms are connected by gates so prisoners can cross them when they’re open. But here is the difficult component: wherever a prisoner is, his accessible gates are determined by the arrows of the other prisoner’s area!
So prisoner A can only move a single step in any of the directions indicated by the arrows on prisoner B’s area, and vice versa.
Each prisoners start off in separate rooms, and both have to attain the very same exit space. Notice that it is allowed to have each prisoners on the exact same cell at any moment.
Right here is an example of how the prisoners move inside the maze:
FIGURE 1: Example of movement.
The Red prisoner can move one particular step left or proper. The Blue prisoner can only move one step downwards. If the Red prisoner moves a single step left, the Blue prisoner will be able to move upwards.
Warning: You should consider ahead in order to stay away from receiving trapped!
CHALLENGES
Challenge 1: Move both prisoners to the exit space indicated with a yellow frame¹·¹.
Figure 2: Challenge 1
Challenge two: Move both prisoners to the exit area indicated with a yellow frame, while choosing up as several bitcoins as you can. Can you pick up all of them?
Figure three: Challenge two
Challenge three: Move both prisoners to the exit space indicated with a yellow frame, although choosing up as several bitcoins as you can and avoiding the Minotaur’s room¹·². Can you pick up all the coins?
Figure 4: Challenge 3
Challenge 4: The giant maze!
Figure five: Challenge four
Please post your answers in my forum¹·³:
http://nestorgames.freeforums.org/bitcoin-magazine-puzzles-f16.html
… and I will reward the ideal post with a copy of 1 of my games. I’m seeking forward to discussing your findings. Thank you for reading!
You may possibly also take pleasure in my prior posts:
- Creativity as difficulty solving
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1.1 Mazes generated by personal computer.
1.2 Special thanks to Silvia Romeral Andrés for the minotaur illustration.
1.3 Please use the following notation: “Blue Left” (Or BL) means ‘The Blue player moves 1 space to the Left’. So the 8 feasible moves are: RU, RD, RL, RR, BU, BD, BL, BR.
 
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