# Castle Adventure! (Ben Chenoweth, Release 2, serial 121207, Inform 7 build
# 6G60, Z-machine V8) - IFComp 2012 entry, post-competition release
# VERIFIED COMPLETE SOLVE: won=True (win text), died=False
#
# Reproduce with the RNG-pinned replay harness (free, no API):
#   cd ~/src/zwalker
#   python3 scripts/replay_solve.py games/zcode/castle_adventure.z8 walkthroughs/castle_adventure_verified_win.txt --seeds 4
#   => castle_adventure_verified_win.txt: VERIFIED 0/None at seed 1 | 277 cmds | died=False | won=True
#
# Ending: the game's best ("super happy") ending, reached in 277 moves. A
# knight crosses a forest, shrinks himself with a mushroom to squeeze into a
# cave, robs a skeleton of its gold key, opens the caretaker's hut, and rides
# the secret well down under the moat. Inside the castle he feeds the guard
# dog a sausage (thrown south into the pit), calms a ghost by forcing the
# panel above the royal bed and finding her ring, uses the ring to open the
# cellar floor, crosses the labyrinth by the tapestry codes (esw / ene / wns),
# drugs the dungeon guard with a bottle of wine, and frees the princess.
# When a ghost spooks her on the way out, her dropped tiara lures the ghost
# away; the princess is recovered on the highest turret, the drawbridge winch
# is kicked (her idea), and the pair walk out north. Because the shiny gold
# key was left out for the magpie after unlocking the hut (instead of being
# hidden in the pouch), the guard dog Fido vouches for you before the king,
# and "you marry the princess and live happily ever after, all because you
# showed kindness to a pesky magpie!" followed by *** The End ***.
#
# Why a pinned seed: the game's one true RNG puzzle is the pitch-dark cellar
# under the caretaker's hut - each GET FLASHLIGHT is a random grope (the
# game's own hints say "Just keep trying!"). Under seed 1 the flashlight
# turns up on the 4th try; the list pads eight attempts so the recording is
# stable ("You already have that." afterwards is harmless). Everything else
# that looks random is turn-scheduled and replays identically: the magpie
# swoops, the mushroom shrink timer, the ghost appearances, and the dungeon
# guard's patrol (guard visible from behind the barrels on arrival and every
# 5th turn after; the bottle of wine is planted two turns after a sighting
# and he drinks it on his next pass).
#
# Release note: this is Release 2 (serial 121207), which renamed Release 1's
# "electric torch" to "flashlight" - the route was machine-realigned for
# that. The guardhouse door is unlocked BEFORE walking into it: bumping a
# locked door costs nothing in-game, but the replay pathway rolls back
# blocked moves and the rollback swallows the following command, so the
# route avoids blocked moves entirely.
#
# The game is scoreless ("There is no score in this story"), so this
# walkthrough carries a WIN_TEXT directive matching the super-happy-ending
# sentence together with the "*** The End ***" banner, both printed by the
# final command's output.
#
#% WIN_TEXT: all because you showed kindness to a pesky magpie!.*\*\*\* The End \*\*\*
#
# Route derived from the author's official Release 1 competition transcript
# (ifarchive.org if-archive/games/competition2012/zcode/castle/), machine-
# realigned for Release 2; replay-verified by scripts/replay_solve.py.
n
w
jump stream
e
e
e
n
n
read sign
e
e
e
get mushroom
w
w
w
s
w
w
eat mushroom
w
n
e
e
n
w
n
get key
get paper
read paper
s
e
s
w
w
s
e
s
w
jump stream
s
e
s
get pouch
e
e
e
w
get key
put key in pouch
e
e
get key from pouch
unlock door with key
w
e
n
pull rake
pull kettle
pull ladle
d
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
get flashlight
switch flashlight on
n
n
u
w
n
get wine
e
n
n
w
get knife
e
s
w
s
e
s
e
e
e
e
n
n
get sausage
i
drop pouch
get sausage
s
s
w
w
w
w
n
w
n
e
e
e
e
throw sausage south
e
e
s
s
w
enter bed
open panel with knife
drop knife
get ring
s
e
n
n
u
n
examine tapestries
s
examine tapestries
s
examine tapestries
n
d
e
s
e
n
e
e
e
examine socket
examine ring
put ring in socket
d
e
s
w
e
n
e
w
n
s
wait
wait
wait
wait
wait
wait
e
drop bottle
w
wait
e
get keys
s
unlock celldoor with keys
w
e
s
unlock celldoor with keys
e
examine princess
w
n
n
w
w
w
s
w
e
n
n
s
w
e
s
s
w
s
n
s
e
s
w
n
e
n
s
w
u
w
w
w
s
w
n
w
get tiara
s
drop tiara
n
u
n
u
w
n
u
u
d
d
s
e
d
s
d
w
w
w
n
ask princess about drawbridge
s
w
w
w
s
e
s
e
e
e
e
n
n
n
n
w
unlock door with keys
w
examine chains
w
u
e
kick winch
w
d
e
e
e
s
s
s
s
w
w
w
w
n
w
n
e
e
e
n
n
n