The (x, y) Conundrum
Just follow the instructions. How hard can it be? You will get a list of coordinates at the end.
- Marked:
(1, 0)
. Current state: at (1, 0) @ 0°. - Marked:
(1, 0)
. Current state: at (1, 0) @ 90°. - Marked:
(10, 0)
. Current state: at (10, 0) @ 90°. Note that you move without turning. - Marked:
(10, 1)
. Current state: at (5.5, 5.5) @ 45°. Words like “left” depend on what direction you’re facing. - Marked:
(3, 3)
. Current state: at (3, 3) @ 45°. - Marked:
(3, 3)
. Current state: at (13, 3) @ 45°. Words like “east” do not depend on facing direction. - Marked:
(10, 0)
. Current state: at (10, 0) @ 180°. - Marked:
(7, 3)
. Current state: at (7, 3) @ 179°. Gotta keep track of which relative direction is which absolute direction. - Marked:
(0, 4)
. Current state: at (0, 4) @ 179°. - Marked:
(1, 4)
. Current state: at (1, 4) @ 179°. Also possible: marked:(4, 1)
, curent state: at (4, 1) @ 179°. Things get ambiguous here. The ambiguity will be resolved later. - Marked:
(2, 4)
. Current state: at (2, 4) @ 179°. Also possible: marked:(5, 1)
, curent state: at (5, 1) @ 179°. - Marked:
(10, 4)
. Current state: at (10, 4) @ -90°. Also possible: marked:(2, 4)
, curent state: at (2, 4) @ -90°. Only one turn by 3149° is needed, as it turns out. - Marked:
(-1, -1)
. Current state: at (-1, -1) @ direction ⟨-11, 5⟩. The ambiguity is resolved as the other possibility goes through (6, 0). - Marked:
(2, 0)
. Current state: at (2, 0) @ direction ⟨-11, 5⟩. The coordinates marked in steps 1-13 need to be absolute-valued and incremented by 1. - Marked:
(15, 6)
. Current state: at (16, 6) @ direction ⟨-11, 5⟩. Careful, as the coordinates you snap to and the coordinates you mark are not the same. - Marked:
(14, 20)
. Current state: at (14, 20) @ 180°. Nothing like a nice long walk to end the adventure. Also, the coordinates marked in steps 14-15 need to be incremented by 1.
At the end, the marked coordinates become
- (2, 1)
- (2, 1)
- (11, 1)
- (11, 2)
- (4, 4)
- (4, 4)
- (11, 1)
- (8, 4)
- (1, 5)
- (2, 5)
- (3, 5)
- (11, 5)
- (2, 2)
- (3, 1)
- (16, 7)
- (14, 20)
If we get Stuck on Extraction™, we should solve “The Jig is Up!” first, which would give us X IS WORD Y IS LETTER
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We index into the sentence with the x-coordinate and index into the resulting word with the y-coordinate, giving us a letter.
This gives FLY A COMPLEX PLANE
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Notes:
Two out of three teams solved this puzzle without solving another one first. Perhaps I should have done something less reasonable.