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Yeah, it was clear that the leap was the central trap of the house.

Still, the rest of the entrance is just as brilliant. I honestly died several times in a row, literally just from waltzing in tool-less, because I was too busy scouting so many other houses that I totally underestimated yours. It took me over a week of playing to realize: oh... that house isn't going away. huh! time to seriously scout it. And even then, my first scout went north, because my first instinct was that the Leap of Faith was too obvious to be anything but a decoy.

Really devious!

hooray!

Huh! That clean slate is a really interesting (and extremely careful) way to draft. I never would've thought of that!

Your notes make it really easy to track the robbing process, and I was interested to see we practically took the exact same steps on the Longoria house! And I was really impressed how far you managed on the Pinon house with just a ladder, and by only deducing the dances.

In fact, I think you were much more adept than I am at using a single ladder for a 2K robbery. I think I often neglect to consider that possibility when it can really help scout forward a considerable amount.

Thanks for sharing!

ps- so it was YOU who robbed Herbert Scott Powell!! I didn't even share my draft in the other thread, because I got nowhere. Interesting map, and very interesting story on how you bested it! Well done!

Awesome! This is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for... I feel like I'm learning about the real faces behind the masks!

AMWhy:
Yeah, that's the one!

For some reason, I imagined your master plan would eventually loop all the way around, down the right edge of the map and back to the bottom left... and each phase nothing more than an obnoxiously complicated chihuahua dance.

I can just picture it now: cracking 4 straight rooms of chihuahua dances, only to find... another insane chihuahua dance?!?! And probably leading to more???!!! Hahahah, what a truly diabolical idea.

eppfel:
AWESOME! Thanks for sharing your robs.

Hahahah, yes.

Also, I think you may have mistaken me for another robber. Since the Longoria house has finally fallen, I'll clarify in the other thread.

Also also, that Case dance is indeed extremely devious. I had to make a mock up filled with windows in place of walls just to work out the steps (whoa: I just found a pic!)

... and then I think you may have changed the dance. still, the solution I came up with was quite complicated, so hats off to you for making it through that self-test.

Also x3: My favorite part of the Case robbery was in the latter stages of the house where you left some laddered pits in, and they may have been part of a tool-less solution. Quite unexpectedly disorienting (do these still lead to the vault? or is this a legitimate, but fake possibility?).

Killer Mosquito:

Oh. Ohhhhh.

Man, I really need to watch those Aavak tapes some day. That's brilliant, thank you SO much for sharing the map (mystery solved!).

Now I'm really curious though... how did Blip crack it?

Again, really brilliant. Kudos!

... And also, a slight update: I just rediscovered my mapshot folder, and with it, comes one of the most unorthodox combo locks I ever saw. For your curiosity:

Section Three: WIFE HUNT!™

Ever see a house with over a thousand visits? Abandoned and utterly trashed by tools, these houses are far removed from the once-mighty puzzles they might've been.

And the only thing that keeps them alive, is a poor spouse behind an expensive, expansive defense.

…but just how impenetrable are those defenses? It turns out that the TCD mini-game Wife Hunt!™ has several advantages over the original game.

First, if the vault can be found again, and the house accrues bounties regularly, then each time you tag the vault, the house damage is saved. Essentially, a line of a hundred well-spaced dogs can be gunned down by a 2K robber one-by-one.

Second, there are twelve possible tools for robbing a house, but the main tools for Wife Hunt!™ are only guns and clubs. (Also important, on occasion: ladders, explosives, bricks, meat, and saws) In other words, there's no complicated electronics that you need to puzzle out.

Third, while TCD leaves you with a dirty feeling every time you bust someone's vault, Wife Hunt!™ makes you feel like you've done a good deed. By taking out the last remnant of this abandoned house, you can make sure the dead house is finally laid to rest… undisturbed by the never-ending torrent of ill-wishers.

Anyway, I've seen players call for the retirement of abandoned houses before, but I think few realized how it could be done. And now that all the major abandoned houses have been retired, I can finally reveal… THAT I AM THE GREATEST WIFE HUNT™ PLAYER ALIVE!!!!

ahem. On to the houses:

Derek Ralph Mcmahan
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Ah, my favorite doghouse! I saw this one, and immediately loved the concept, even though I knew it probably wouldn't last too long.

As it happened, I took about a week off, and when I came back, the house was completely broken. However, the concept was somewhat intact, and it was just as effective (if not more) as before, thus the house regularly accrued bounty.

This house quickly became the model for wife hunting on a 2K suicide budget: pry, pry, smash, smash, then rob $100 to save the damage. Repeating this tactic (along with choosing a clever place to blow through the concrete) allowed me to locate, access, and retire the keeper of house Mcmahan.

R.I.P.

Glenn Christopher Grant
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Hey, this was Pohaku's kill! This was happened right during my quest to retire these houses, and I'm also curious: how much progress did he make on the other houses? Did he have a go at Semple or Callahan?

If you read this, dude, let me know!

Anyway, R.I.P.

David Stuart Sparrow

Where'd my draft go? I probably didn't do one, since the vault had been moved so close to the entrance it could be found from memory.

It's worth noting, however, that this was one of those houses that reliably collected bounties, enough that I could shoot my way to the wife one dog at a time.

R.I.P.

Clinton Brian Callahan
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I could write a page-long essay on this episode. First I had to FIND the actual vault, which was not easy given the well-constructed well-protected magic dance to the south. Turns out the vault had been moved, and at some point the magic dance had been effectively disabled. Even then, the house entrance was constantly being mauled, and the way to reach the vault kept changing.

Finally, I got some good maps in of the top, and discovered that the wife was likely located in a very specific area. After a few attempts, I finally found a weak spot to the right of the family den, and then the day came I could tunnel through with a pistol on hand.

Interesting note: when I finally killed the wife, I was locked out of the vault (I didn't even have enough $$ left for one water), so I got to finally explore the back end of this wonderful house. I'm always amazed at how much better the initial traps of a house can be, as compared to the ones that follow. I wonder how many even got to see them?

Oh well, who knows.

R.I.P.

Alton James Malone
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It was me! I killed this awesome house!

Never before has a dead house collected so much bounty. Getting to the wife was not easy, and required MULTIPLE daisy-chain robberies. And because the house was often broken in so many different ways, I had a hard time even saving the damage.

In the end, I had mapped pretty far in before I finally broke a front-page house, and used all that cash on clubs, explosives, and guns.

R.I.P.

Jeffrey Todd Semple
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(ed note: Good LORD!!)
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As you can see from the drafts, I started in on this one dog-dog-by-dog, wall-by-wall, until some bigger robberies contributed to the carnage.

This house was made much easier by the fact that getting to the vault could be done without tools, and there was almost always bounty to collect. Saving the damage wasn't too hard here.

Side note: this house was a relic from when TCD had far more players, and thus far more money to be blown on houses. I actually got the first map from the forums, but I hate to think what it would've taken to navigate this house during its prime.

R.I.P.

Michael Lance Gillard
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By far the hardest.

There was no getting around it: it was too easy to rob this house, and there were never any bounties left. No bounties = no damage saved.

I scouted around, but there was no shortcut to the family anywhere. Only a full-force attack would do.

Finally, as soon as I broke another front-page house, that's exactly what I did. Nothing fancy, just guns, guns, guns.

Such a great house, such a worthy end.

R.I.P.

Wife Hunt!™

Uncomon Theft: A House Solved

These houses are my personal favorites.

Robbing is fun, but there's nothing like the sheer joy you get from cracking a complicated house, and doing so with no tools! If I were a homebuilder, I would imagine this would be the most satisfying way to see my house go down, because it meant that someone put as much thought and care into cracking the design as it did for me to make it.

I don't think the tape of someone solving a house really does justice to the process of finding a solution, so hopefully this article will help explain how it got to that point.

My hat (scarf?) goes off to each and every one of these designers. Hope I did you proud.

Ryan Arnold Lloyd
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My first major success, and the first indication that sometimes big, expensive, scary houses can be solved for much less than the effort put into building them.

Basically, I realized that everything necessary to solve the puzzle was visible, so I mapped it, sat down and thought a bit. Eventually, I came up with an idea that worked. Afterwards, it was a choice between up or down, I assumed the clock mechanics were up, so I went down thinking the window was a decoy (which turned out to be right), and then it was just a 3-door guessing game. My second guess proved correct.

And here's a story about how that went.

Christopher Joseph Bowers
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Okay, I'm taking credit for this one. Even though Blip brute-forced it mere hours before I was going to crack it, I had the solution down for this house, so I'm including it.

A fire floor house courtesy of Wrexit, this featured a magic dance which I positively could not figure out, even after I'd drafted it. It finally took a mock-up made of windows and a chihuahua before I figured out how to do it, and by the time I did that, Blip had already destroyed the house. Ah well.

This house was also particularly fun, because I got to explore it as he was building it up! By the third scout, or so, Wrexit had already filled in all that empty space up with wooden walls.

One of my favorite parts is that little cat alarm system at the right edge of the map. Why build it? Nobody will ever find it!

Well, I did, and I marveled.

Alton James Malone
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I had this house undrafted FOR EV ER. I mean, c'mon! It was that Malone house. Everybody knew their way to the end, and the only thing that kept changing was that somebody would break something new, and more bounties would collect. I still don't know who was maintaining this house (if anyone).

Anyway, here, at last, is a definitive draft of the Malone house. All the elements for the tool-less solution are visible.

Robert James Coker
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What an absolute thrill!

This house uses the same trap three times, and the first one is so devious, I died UMPTEEN times on it alone. However, I learned (from many deaths) that:

• the cat lights up the doors for 4 counts after x amount of steps
• the chihuahua (probably) is what kills the floors.

So it was either a magic dance that miraculously killed the chihuahua on a wired floor or trapdoor or something… or else I had to get it stuck behind a powered door or wall or something.

And I also realized that the 'x' amount of steps were much larger than the amount of steps it took to reach the edge of the trapdoors from the door, so I reasoned that maybe those extra steps were necessary to take the chihuahua far down enough to get stuck.

You can imagine my surprise and delight when I found out this was the case. The rest of the map fell shortly thereafter to the same principle, however I would've loved to have seen the whole map, just out of curiosity to see what, if any, precautions had been taken against brute-forcing.

Marcus Longoria
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Hey Eppfel! That person that walked right up to your vault, then wandered off around the end, playing with random dogs and bricking doors… that was meeee!!

The entrance has changed at least four times since I first figured it out. I'm really quite impressed with your ability to keep those dances straight, because even when I figure out the steps, I have to write out the solution just to move on.

For example, here's an old sequence that doesn't work anymore, from my notes:
LRD(ON)UR(OFF)  Then  L L R R R (ON) R R (OFF) L L L R R R R?  SUCCESS

update: Do to the house's run finally meeting an untimely end, here are a few notes on my progress:

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(Old First Part: DUDULRR to open door  Then go L L R R R R R R)

Revised:
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(Old Second Part: Okay, so the goal is to chase cats into the corners before the doors open.
FIRST: activate button via south dogs, and make sure all buttons are pressed to complete circuit
SECOND: enter door, then immediately step down onto binary switch. Then, I think it doesn't matter. Pick up or down.

Okay, try the same thing (brick both cats), but go up. Bring doorstops just in case. If N trapdoors are powered again, try cruising straight through to the right. Wired floors turn on at first step around the corner.)

Revised again:
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Michael Lance Gillard
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Forget everything I said before, this was the defining moment of my robbing days. Solving this house really gave me the confidence I needed to rob any house out there. Not to mention, it was an exquisite thrill to do it sans tools.

The first thing I did was figure out what that north dog was for (water + saw + meat). After that, I could get into the south portion, and I just scouted, and drafted (meats + waters), scouted and drafted, noting that the two segments of wired floor lit up like there was a hidden magic dance which was the whole point of the first dog.

Eventually, I realized that there was only one power source, and that the solution likely involved the completion of a rather long circuit (one which required hitting buttons in a specific order to make it possible). Breaking the circuit at any point would probably break the ending, so all I had to do was stare at the draft until I puzzled out the correct sequence of buttons.

Even when I completed the circuit, I still couldn't believe I had solved it until I made it to the vault. That feeling of exultation, of accomplishment, is exactly what I imagine Jason was trying to achieve when he made this game. Kudos!

… sometime after I robbed it, I think everyone knows what happened next. Someone drilled a path straight to the vault, and it became one of the longest standing ghost houses for some time… (more on that later)

Floyd Gary Pinon (same designer as Albert John Justice)
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Amazing house. Amazing solution. Sight-shifting combined with fire-floors, magic dances, cat-chase-buttons for a house-spanning circuit, followed by an across-the-map leap of faith dog. Have a look at the last draft, and see if you can figure it out!

There are a number of wonderfully simple reasons why this house rode to #2 (and possibly to #1 at times), but the most amazing thing is that it did so despite being relatively vulnerable to an out-and-out brute force attack.

Several walls here are thin enough to scout (indeed, the top magic dog dance was one I reached with a cutter, 2 saws, a water or two, some meat & a club), and neither magic dance is particularly daunting (the bottom magic dance was found  by using a ladder, and a brick to disable the top death dog).

Still, this was a non-trivial challenge, and it was a pleasure to learn about each and every part of the house (my particular favorite moment was when I finally realized how I was meant to sight-shift, to avoid the insta-kill dog).

As with all big scores, I was a little sad to see the house go after its extended run. To whoever built it, please know that I thoroughly enjoyed figuring it out.

Michael Julian Prendergast (currently alive? please clarify)
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As much fun as I had robbing the Pinon house, solving this particular house was the most fun I've ever had in Castle Doctrine.

Aside from the many aspects right up my alley (crazy weird electronics! stylish design! a WIFE RACE… only AFTER completing a crazy house-spanning circuit!!!) of this house, I most enjoyed the scouting runs while it was under construction. This allowed me to walk around cool areas that weren't meant to ever be seen (namely: the south area looking out across a long pit of despair).

I seriously LOVE houses like this, and they make my heart swell with joy, quite in the opposite way that walking into yet-another-magic-dance-house shrivels up my soul.

Kudos to the designer, whoever, and if your current house is dead, please do speak up. I'd love to share my solution to this house.

Famous Houses

So these are some houses you might recognize.

In case you were wondering how far I'd gotten in so-and-so's house, the answer is almost always going to be: not far. This is simply because the more popular (and publicized) a house is, the faster it tends to fall, and usually I don't even get more than a couple of scouting runs in before they're gone.

But, what the heck, here they are...

Gary Jeremy Coney
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To Amatiel (the creator of this house): For your added amusement, here are my original notes on the Coney house:

Leap of Faith
Depower Floors
Go up & try a kitty combo.
Hit left sticky button
Chase cat west to trigger floor
Go south, chase cat south across leap of faith
Cross leap of faith with chihuahua, get cat to power doors by dancing
Go to the end, and check powered door.

Calvin Eugene Smith (Coney v2.0)
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And here's my progress on the reboot that resurfaced. As you can see, I didn't get very far. (I never even got to the cat-chase, I just re-used my old draft).

David Michael Scott
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AKA the House of a Million Cat Dances.

For this house, I reasoned that because there were so many cats, there probably weren't too many solutions. Thus I presumed that each step I took and lived would be a 'correct' step, and that all I had to do was guess when the cats (or maybe it was only one or two cats that were relevant?) flipped the switch.

As it turned out, the house fell before I had more than three guesses.

In fact, here are the entirety of my notes on this house:
Right down down right up up down left… ?

Arthur N. Santiago
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Remember this house?

This was one of the first houses that I remember staying around FOR-EV-ER.

The entrance clock trap alone probably killed a hundred idiots (and I was 3 or 4 of them). I think the rest of the house was a couple combo locks, but I don't remember much else about this house.

Stephen Thomas Geyer
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Hey, it's Cylence's old house! This one was quite fun, but I never got far enough in to really appreciate it.

Christopher Alvin Harris
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One of Blip's old houses. Like most (all?) of his houses, they lasted about as long as Blip, but I did manage to sneak a ways in before he changed the entrance on me. I would've liked to have finished puzzling out the second part.

Keith Anthony Weaver
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One of Iceman's later houses. I never got past the cats.

The toggle circuit of death at the beginning was characteristically clever. Though I did take some small pride in disabling it with only one water instead of two.

Thomas P Sunderland
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This was the beginning of AMWhy's chihuahua-dancestravaganza house, and I only have this much of it drafted because he posted the entrance on the forums.

I could tell it was a work in progress, and I actually suicided in front of the vault after using a ladder and a brick to scout the dance. I would've liked to see the complete(ly insane) house.

Houses That Died Far Too Soon

These are houses that just plain disappeared, for various reasons, before I could finish robbing them.

Steven Russell Stewart
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This was one of the first times I solved a simple magic dance.

Take a look at the opening dog. On the seventh step up, (counting from the trapdoor) the floor would turn on, and I'd die. This means that there had to be a button there.

Now the simplest magic dances all use a single toggle that secretly powers the button (they don't use two toggles, because that would make it easier to 'accidentally' get past the dance), so the trick is simply to find out which step holds the toggle. This can be done easily by cutting the floor on the 'death' step, turning on the floor, and then simply backtracking until you turn the floor back off.

Or, if you're worried about paradox circuits, simply trial and error will do (ie. from the trap door, try six steps up, one step down, then go back up. If you die, then on the next run, try six steps up, two steps down, then back up, etc.).

So, I solved the first dance, then correctly guessed (and cut) the next death step, but I only got to see the guessing-game part once before the house disappeared.

By the way, note how much house space that guessing game takes up, vs. the magic dance. Which one do you think is more effective?

Andrew Grover Edwards
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A fairly cheap house, and it wasn't surprising that it didn't last long. Still, it was fun to draft the absurdly-large magic cat dance.. you really don't see too many of these anymore (probably for good reason).

Michael Jessie Laplante
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A pretty standard progression vs. a combo lock house: Draft to the max with 2K tools, then bring a few saws.

Note the steel walls that change to concrete in-between drafts. This happened right after I cut through the steel and saw the first button with only 2K tools.

Kevin George Velez
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Hah! I love this house, because even though I got practically nowhere…

This cracks me up. Changing one's house regularly is the perfect counter to 2K suicide robbers, and it's also an ever-increasing risk each time you have to run through your own traps.

I guess the self-test death rule isn't all that bad.

Christopher Neal Cantrell/Joaquin Donald Sealy
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This was Kimenzar's lovely house, and though he was a very prolific robber (ie. the house is bound to die sooner rather than later), I would've loved to have a few more cracks at that magic dance.

Figuring out the first section was a joy. (Just look at it! Everything you need to figure it out is in plain view). And the multi-pet dance at the end is delightfully unorthodox.

Adam Lester Mitchell
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A somewhat more recent combo lock house, this one expired before I really got too far in.

I think this was an early-stage house, because just look at all the progress I made with only a couple saws!

Troy James Matheson
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I just wanted to show this one because it was one of the most bizarre combo locks I've ever seen. Too bad it disappeared before I could even try out the winning combo.

Toby Martin Benjamin
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Oh, I had this one!! The opening combo was: top middle, bottom left, bottom right, I had to remember to trap a dog behind a door to the left before entering the puzzle room of death, and then… combo lock (but one easily within my scouting budget!)

The puzzle room of death is still quite possibly one of my favorite puzzles ever. I even drafted my solution:
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Anyway, I had JUST finished scouting all the buttons when the house disappeared… sigh. Oh well. Very fun and memorable house.

(ps- note all the weirdly irrelevant parts of the house included in the draft. Is it obvious I like exploring houses almost as much (if not more) than I like cracking them?)

Robert Troy Hebert
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This was a truly crazy house. A clock, magic dance, leaps of faith, AND a combo lock all in one house? Sir, you must be insane!

Admittedly, it was fun traipsing through this ever-changing design (and dying a number of times by forgetting the clock at the beginning), and I was sad to see the house in tatters before I finished my map.

Side note: This house brings up a very useful facet of castledraft, and an interesting point about scouting in general. Take a look at the magic dance that I mapped on my second draft. Notice, from the far right side of the map it seems very inaccessible (pits, steel, dogs), but when I drafted it, I noticed that it was exactly adjacent to… the harmless cat room!

$2000 may not seem like much, but it will buy you a brick, a cutting torch, and some meat.

AMWhy: I just built your house, and I have to say, that's one of the most satisfying self-tests I've ever done. kudos!

Edit: well that didn't last long.

Never cracked? Can you draft your entrance please?