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0 pointso11c1y ago0 comments

* Scroll of HP (use these only after exhausting other ways to level up)

* Treasure chest (beware of mimics) containing the above or XP directly

* Walls cost a random amount of HP (despite registering as 0 for adjacent counts) but grant a random amount of XP. I suspect that getting a good score requires getting lucky and hitting a low-HP high-XP wall early, to stretch your score just a little bit further

* There's a gnome(?) that costs 0 HP but gives 10 XP

* Once you find the scroll of anti-mine, you get a lot of XP from picking up the leftover mines

But yes, many games are unwinnable.

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h0l0cube1y ago· 2 in thread

Observing patterns when dead is also useful for subsequent games (a cryptic clues in the monsternomicon on the bottom right of the screen)

> But yes, many games are unwinnable.

Below the game: "Yes, the board can be cleared."

Arnavion1y ago

Yes if you play optimally every game is winnable with a full clear. If you make some mistakes you can still win but not get a full clear. If you make too many mistakes it may become unwinnable.

o11cOP1y ago

It's impossible to play optimally, because you have no way of knowing which combination of monsters for the first 5 and 6 HP will reveal a scroll of HP to let you continue. You're dependent largely on luck.

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