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WHAAAAAAT? I'm scared now - people can literally buy enough tools to cut to ANYTHING, ANYWHERE on the map. Nobody is safe... but I guess that's the point. It always sucks to have your trap brute forced, but it's a major part of the game; as Jason said, it's not a puzzle game, and thus, it's not the robber's responsibility to solve your traps if they don't have to.

I rarely succeed in chain robbing. I'll normally reach about $15,000 - $25,000 houses before either dying or giving up. I find it much more satisfying to build evil deathtraps, which I then,in a sort of sociopathic way, assign names. In my current house, many have made it past the Doggy Door of Death, and some even through the Inexplicable Inverter (not really very inexplicable at all), but nobody has finished the house by solving the Catbination Lock (tm) and thus making their way through the Inexplicabeler Non-Inverter safely.

I was working on revising my house, and, on my final self test, took one step too many down a passage and saw the electric floors down the passage I needed to go light up. I knew that I would die, because their was an angry pit bull waiting by the entrance. I ended up deciding that, as I would die anyway, I would try a leap of faith onto the floors, hoping beyond hope that I had accidentally used a non-sticking switch. I stepped forward, my hard shaking as I pressed the key. And... the floors turned off. I was through.

I proceeded with the rest of my trap only to realize that the pits at the end were disconnected to the power source they were intended for due to an error, and I was locked in. Again, I tried another crazy, hail mary maneuver to get back. My plan was to kill the pit bull waiting at the entrance with electric floors from that first trap. It would have worked... but because of the way I circumvented the previous trap, I was greeted with a snarling and completely alive pit bull on my way to the door. Goodbye, me. You didn't have anything to live for, anyway.

The god follows you, two steps behind you, and lets you pass the trap.

Edit: You know, I meant to say "dog", but that turned out so perfectly that I don't want to change it.

I hope that, now that the contest's over, we can see some of the winning designs!

Welp. I died repeatedly in a last minute robbing spree, and ended up with nothing. Yay.

You may have been one of the people who took ages robbing me! To be frank, that was the worst thing about my design: it was so big, with so many passages, that many people took over 500 steps robbing it. I've even seen one guy who nearly had 2000 steps! He died.

I can't believe I didn't think of that. And I think I have a source of about $25 coming up soon via paypal which might finance a second account, as long as I don't die horribly.

Edit: So, I died like an idiot. Doing repairs and forgot that steel walls don't conduct.

Yup, that's my place! I've gotten many, many kills with that trap, including one with a $22,000 bounty on his head. It pays to be careful when scouting, guys!

Thanks to a certain Mr. Finn, who just gave me new chances in the contest with a nice $25,000 "donation". Sorry about the pit bull to the face, but you fell into my trap so perfectly that you deserved it!

One that's become very common nowadays is having a closed door near the entrance and a later part of the trap open the door. Behind the door was a pit bull, which prevents leaving unless you have a gun or dealt with it beforehand.