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Gardener's Woe (Posted on 2006-06-24) Difficulty: 4 of 5
An unlucky gardener planted a 10x10 square array of 100 old seeds out in the garden. Only 5 of these seeds have germinated including one at the southwest corner (0,0) where a slug is currently reducing it to ground level.

When it finishes it will head directly to the next closest doomed plant. After it eats that one it will again leave a slime trail to the closest remaining plant and so on until the garden is no more.

Where are the 4 remaining seedlings if the path crawled by the slug is the longest possible and it never has to choose between two equidistant snacks?

Note: Although the slug will never have to choose between two equidistant seedlings, this doesn't imply that no two are equidistant.

Next find the locations if 6 seedlings had germinated instead of 5.

See The Solution Submitted by Jer    
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Some Thoughts re(2): Some thinking | Comment 3 of 27 |
(In reply to re: Some thinking by Victor Zapana)

Nope, it must go to the CLOSEST DOOMED plant, so O.O.O. may have a point there.
  Posted by Federico Kereki on 2006-06-24 14:45:52

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