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Playground Maze (Posted on 2009-08-13)

In this maze the exits/entrances are the triple coloured bars, green, yellow and magenta. Your path is defined by the sequence of those colours; ie, if you start at the top you may only enter a cell in the order of the cyclic sequence of G-Y-M (or the reverse order if you begin from below).

The object is to complete this maze, visiting each cell at least once. While there is more than one route, the shortest routes are 31 and 34 letters. What are those routes?

Note: This has been modelled on the contribution of Chris Lusby Taylor at http://www.mathpuzzle.com/ , 26 Jul 2009.

See The Solution Submitted by brianjn

Rating: 2.0000 (1 votes)

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re: Ignore entry?

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(In reply to Ignore entry? by ed bottemiller)

Looking at the entrance into B, I see stacked together green, yellow and magenta in that order before entering into B from the outside. As brianjn calls it, it's a triple coloured bar, as is the exit, which starts with a green and ends with a magenta.

If one were, however to treat the entrance as solely green, then the following would work:

BADEADEFCBADEIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEADEFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEADEIHDIMNOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEADEIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPOJEDIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPONRQMHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPOJEDIHDIMNOKJNRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRQMHDIMNOKJNRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPOJEDIHDIMNOKJNRX 36

BADEFCBADEFGKLPOJEDIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIMNIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIHDIMNIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIHDIMNJEBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIHDIMNOKJFGKFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 33

BADEFCBADEIHDIMNOKJOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFCBADEIHDIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKFCBADEIHDIMNOKJFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEADEIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEIMNIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIMNIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIMNOKJOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 33

BADEFGKPLGCFBADEIHDIHDIMNOKJNQRSPONRX 36

BADEIMNIHDIMNOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNIMNOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNJEBADEFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNOKJFCBADEADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNOKJFCBADEFGKFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 33

BADEIHDIMNOKJFGKFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNOKJOKGCFBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIMNOKJOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

BADEIHDIHDIMNOKJFCBADEFGKLPONQRSPONRX 36

with, as before, the numbers representing the actual rooms on the list. Each of these also requires allowing more than one passage through a given portal in the same direction.

The only change to the program was the initial placement in the color sequence:

roomList$ = "B": currSeq = 2

Edited on August 13, 2009, 9:19 pm

Posted by Charlie on 2009-08-13 21:14:39

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