Counting flowers

[byorgey]

Another challenge scenario to showcase the use of print/read.

[kostmo]

In order to provide useful playtesting feedback, I have not inspected the yaml file for the counting flowers scenario. I haven't solved it yet, but here's what I've tried so far:

• Using the typewriter to print something (I get a print: what is a paper error)
• meeting the True Love and give-ing them the typewriter
• grab-ing a flower
• grab-ing a fuse
• unequiping each device in the inventory to see if I can make some other useful device, e.g. to facilitate the resonate command. I inspected each equipped device to see their recipes. The farthest I got on this front was to McGyver a hyperloop from the strange loop and ADT calculator.

My main idea would have been to print numbers sequentially, since the upper bound is <5000. Visually the density looked around 10%, so perhaps it would have gone only 500 iterations. But I am stuck at the paper error.

[byorgey]

@kostmo Oh, sorry, this PR is not ready for review yet! It is unsolvable since there is still more stuff I need to add. I'll let you know when it's ready for you to give it a try.

[byorgey]

My main idea would have been to print numbers sequentially, since the upper bound is <5000. Visually the density looked around 10%, so perhaps it would have gone only 500 iterations.

Oh, hmm, I will have to think how to rule out this unintended solution. 😄

[byorgey]

@kostmo OK, this should be ready for test playing! There's still one more thing I want to iron out but it's only cosmetic.

[byorgey]

This is now all rebased and fixed up on top of the changes in #2245, should be ready for review.

[kostmo]

Here's my solution. I enjoyed having the fuse as time pressure.

[kostmo]

I had a (off-by-one) bug in my code that I finally diagnosed by entering creative mode to use my own resonate command. Perhaps that is the intended use of creative mode, but it may be fun to have an "in-scenario" method to double-check one's count. Perhaps some oblique way to obtain a gradiator that is an instant-lose condition, but nonetheless can help a player debug.