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[vicki]

I must be WAY off! I keep getting 311! I think i'm gonna have to start from the beginning again!

[AngusA]

What a great puzzle. Definitely one of my faves. I was a little bit out doing it with pen and paper but AgentLex's flash program got me to the right answer - so cheers to him.

[batgirl]

This is so frustrating, I have a safe and working route which takes 253, surely this should be accepted?!

I have to go back to my route and try and add on time now which is very odd!

EDIT: Scrap that, I finally got it!!

[mrg198]

I tried for ages and came up with the values cabbage had to start with i.e.

[arnezami]

Just found this game:

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/play/6686.html



Its like its inspired by this card! Or is it the other way around?

There is even an escape-from-jail level after you get caught!

[vicki]

I'm going crazy now! I'm sure i've got the answer thanks to mrg198's kloo but I locked myself out earlier when I was in work 15 hours to go!

[Bendover]

Great find arnezami It's actually a great game

[pheebs]

yay, finally got it with only a clue

[Mikeyj]

I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.

Last card to solve that someone else has solved and it's ruined my lunch-hour (which has turned into a lunch 2 and a half hours).

... /me goes back to work muttering

[Agent Lex]

Good news!

I finally updated the flash thinger to show you what happens each second. When you press a direction button, you'll see a second "you" pop up for half a second, then the first will disappear. This shows you being, in terms of the puzzle, in both squares at once as you move, but it does mean it takes a little longer to test a route out.

PS: You may have to clear your cache to load the new version. For some reason, a ctrl-F5 on the page doesn't seem to load the new one, at least in Firefox.
Alternatively, you can just load up this file.

[Cabbage]

Sheesh kebab Agent Lex, I have just had terrible flash(pardon the pun)backs to when this card ruled my life for about six days, and I was up till three every morning testing out routes with your prog. So thanks for this updated ver. No, really, thanks. I know what I will be doing at 2:30am...

PS They never admitted that they were wrong and I wuz right, you know...

[tiltedaxis]

/cry

been trying to do this for what feels like years now. I would get a bloomin hard one in my first pack of cards. Currently swinging wildly between 250 ish and 300 ish. am i in the right kinda ballpark?

cheers

TA

[tiltedaxis]

woooo!

thanks to a PM from mr Cabbage (my new hero), I got it! bloomin strange, seein as i got a few which were quicker. but i kinda understand what i was doing wrong now. thanks a lot!

[BrianEnigma]

I have to admit, that even with the Flash simulator, I'm having a lot of difficulty with this one. Trying to hit the button on the left as the first task is impossible--if you wait and ride the heels of the white guard, then run for the button, you can't press it and hide around the corner before he back comes around the corner and can see you; if you hide around the corner first, then press the button, there's no way to go up without the pink guard seeing you or to double back without someone seeing you through that long central hallway.

I figured I might follow the white guard a bit longer and hit the two buttons in the upper right first, then sneak back around and hit the other buttons. I can do that, but get hung up trying to come back to that stupid lower-left button.

What I've learned through this whole thing is: (1) there are a couple of nice hiding spots where you can relax forever without a guard seeing you; (2) going clockwise around paths that guards travel is much better than going counter-clockwise; (3) I would make a horrible cat burglar; (4) I hate this card.

[BrianEnigma]

Maybe I'm making a bad assumption--can the guards see the whole way down corridors, or only as far as their light beams?

Edit: nevermind! Solved it on the first try after reevaluating my assumptions. You know what you get with assumptions, don't you? Yeah, that's right, you make an ass out of umption. Or something.