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:-D alright, mr. mason

http://castledraft.com/editor/qGO0xL is a combo lock with a 'commit' button that involves a magic dance.

there's only one chance to get it right, and there's no indication of whether it is right or wrong until its too late. this type of combo lock is nice because it has a combination (something like 100011100) and 1) it is invisible to the robber and 2) harder to brute force, because you can not flip one switch in isolation, instead a strategy has to be used to turn 1000111000 -> 000000000.

i  agree that simulating the environment is complex. the writing a bot is very complex, too, and i haven't seen how the number 4^2000 was arrived at, but i guess it is if the bot were to look at every single possible path in an empty house (2000 tiles with 4 directions to move in?). there are ways of pruning that number significantly. (i haven't read the mentioned thread, but i would like to :-)

1) once you visit a tile, you don't need to figure out all the other possible paths to that tile, necessarily. (if you have 'sequences' of events, then you do need to figure out the order to visit tiles, though)
2) only passable squares need to be considered in the brute force (since there are no tools for moving past walls)
3) this problem should scale horizontally, by spinning up multiple processes across multiple machines, as long as you give each process a different seed (and determine an idempotent strategy) to brute force the house with.

re: peek map: i didn't realize it was only given once you enter a house (i didn't see that mentioned in the original rules - 'peek map' is/was pretty vaguely defined).

i saw chad come to my place a few times, so i returned the favor. it quickly escalated... http://imgur.com/a/X24SU

:-D

this is an awesome mod (been using it for several days), but the grey uniforms for security guards have gotten me caught several times because they are hard to see in the shadows. i've lost several 25K+ houses when scouting other houses because i was moving too fast and the grey + black on grey+ black didn't register as a security guard for me and i walked into it around a corner. i know this is my fault (for moving too fast), but it's happened more than three times. can you add some highlighting to the security guard tile or change it from gray? i don't want to switch to the original tile set, but i also don't want to keep getting caught.