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[S2] [OXO Set] #233 Fractured
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dragonscales
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 		[S2] [OXO Set] #233 Fractured
#233: Fractured, 920 points

The fractal maze has infinite identical copies of itself
embedded within it, which can be entered. Begin at the
minus and make your way to the plus. When you
enter a smaller copy of the maze, record the letter
name of the copy as you will have to leave this copy
on your way out. You must exit out of each nested
copy of the maze that you have entered into, leaving
in the reverse order that you entered them in. If
there is no exit path leaving the nested copy, you have
hit a dead end.

[PICTURE OF MAZE]

What is the shortest path from the minus to the plus?

Puzzle Architect: Mark J. P. Wolf
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:30 pm
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bertyb
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 		Just Solved this one........after a very long weekend at it!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:11 am
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cthrag yaska
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bertyb wrote:
Just Solved this one........after a very long weekend at it!


Congratulations!

I thought I'd got it, and I can't see where I've gone wrong, but it's not being accepted. Any chance you can see if you can spot anything amiss?

Nomenclature: Label the entry points N1..N4, E1..E4, S1..S4, W1..W4, where N1 and S1 are on the left of the top/bottom edges; E1 and W1 are at the top of the right/left sides.

My "solution":
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MINUS leads to S1 of A
(enter A)
........S1 leads to exit N3
(leave A at N3)
N3 of A leads to E2 of C
(enter C)
........E2 leads to E4 of B
........(enter B)
................E4 leads to S2 of A
................(enter A)
........................S2 leads to W3 of A'
........................(enter A')
................................W3 leads to exit S2
........................(leave A' at S2)
........................S2 of A' leads to exit S3
................(leave A at S3)
................S3 of A leads to W1 of A
................(enter A)
........................W1 leads to exit N1
................(leave A at N1)
................N1 of A leads to exit W1
........(leave B at W1)
........W1 of B leads to E4 of A
........(enter A)
................E4 leads S2 of A'
................(enter A')
........................S2 leads to exit W3
................(leave A' at W3)
................W3 of A' leads to exit S2
........(leave A at S2)
........S2 of A leads to exit S3
(leave C at S3)
S3 of C leads to PLUS

This gives the list of copies passed through as:

AACBAAAAAABAAAAC
Thanks.

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UKver2.0
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cthrag yaska wrote:
I thought I'd got it, and I can't see where I've gone wrong, but it's not being accepted. Any chance you can see if you can spot anything amiss?
The site is only accepting the 36 step route. I've sent MC a spreadsheet that shows a shorter route. Hopefully they'll update the database soon. Otherwise, you can always try finding the longer route.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:24 pm
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UKver2.0
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 		Fixed!

Perplex City Customer Service wrote:
...Thank you for your email, we have found an incorrect solution for Card 233, and have changed this in our data base we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you...

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Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Naomi: and then you’d try to anagram 'shovels'

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 		Bakc of card:
Quote:
And it came to pass in the evening of his life that Gyvann called those he loved to him. And to each of this sons and his daughters he gave a blessing saying: You shall be strong and mighty in battle, yet must you learn peace. You shall be great in wisdom, yet must you learn humility. You shall be rich in men's esteem, yet must you learn compassion. You shall be filled with the spirit of holiness, yet must you learn love.
And he said to them: think not, fruit of my loins, that your birth makes you great. For does not the Cube have no parent, nor ancestry? Yet is it not greater than all the rest?
And they called in the close companions who had gathered in the courtyard and on the roads and in the fields.
And he said to them: remember me not. It is not I, but the Cube. I have done nothing which you may not learn to do yourselves, I have taught no wisdom which the Cube will not give to any who asks.
And they wept and called him teacher and guide.
And he said to them: bury me not in some vaunted place, but among the people, that my grave may be forgotten. But remember the Cube.
And he said unto his wife Durisa the Machianite: we shall meet again, in the Cube.
And he died.
And the people wept and mourned, and they did according to his words and hence his grave is not known.


And, behind the text, there appears to be a map.
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rrwoods
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 		So I was thinking
Aren't there an infinite number of
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starts and exits
as well?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:43 am
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