Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars’ article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?

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Thanks!

Rat King

Ah, that’s what that blue bull with yellow hair is.

some additional details

Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs

And they always face each other.

Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him

And they always face away from the chest, but turn towards it when you open the chest.

Dragon - Defeat it to end the game with a win.

Defeat it to get 13 gold, pick up gold to reveal crown, pick up crown to end game. But if you’re trying to collect all the gold you can, it’s OK to defeat the dragon and keep going a little.

Romeo and Juliet

Face each other equidistant from the center line.

P.S. Syntax for spoiler markdown.

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Fun, even works on Linux (Ubuntu) after turning on Proton for all games. I like the level-based design.

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Yeah that one’s a mystery to me. Sometimes disappears, sometimes gives you gold. I was wondering if it’s related to the blue bull in some way.

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Having learned more about the patterns, I can see that I should have

explored more near the (hint)

6 since that’s a Minotaur

and there will be a (spoiler)

chest by it.

So with the board state as it was I couldn’t necessarily have done better, but better strategy could have let me survive on the same initial board.

Still nowhere near the times some people are posting though.

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I guessed wrong