Floor

hand01

Hand-designed for the thesis: exactly one set of monsters and doors wins, and the rule-based heuristic and random play fail.

Play this floorAll 77 model episodes
14 HPexact optimum: the most HP left when the boss falls
14 HPanswer of the published solver
1winning sets of cleared monsters and doors (1 optimal)
11 × 1110 decisions on the optimal route · 461 search states

Optimal route

Route on the map
HP400final 14
ATK / DEF9 / 4
Keys1 / 0 / 0yellow / blue / red
Step0 / 1810 decisions
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Original game tiles (24-floor sample tower, mota-js). Number on a monster = HP it costs to kill now (green: winnable, red: not). Hover any tile for its stats.
Exact route · 14 HP

Every decision clears a door or fight node; items and fights that cost nothing are taken automatically ("auto"). 461 states expanded.

Optimal route against the models' wins

44 model episodes won this floor; none reaches the optimum of 14 HP. Below, monsters and doors only, the exact optimal route next to the most common winning trajectory with computed state values (8 wins; the most common trajectory overall, 27 wins, has none), as played in this DeepSeek-V4-Flash episode (final HP 10).

turn 4 The trajectory leaves the optimal route here: Fight Red Slime at (1,6) where the route takes yellow door (6,8). The state value (the most HP still reachable at the boss) falls from 14 to 12 HP.

Open the episode at turn 4 to read the model's reasoning there.

Exact optimal route10 decisions
#clearsHP after
1yellow door (4,8)400
2yellow door (6,8)475
3Green Slime (9,6)526
4Red Slime (1,6)478
5Red Slime (1,5)442
6yellow door (1,2), Green Slime (1,3)436
7Green Slime (9,5)432
8yellow door (9,2), Red Slime (9,3)407
9Big Bat (5,1), blue door (5,2)326
10Boss (5,0)14
Most common winning trajectory8 episodes
turnactionHP aftervalue
1Open yellow door at (4,8)40014
4Fight Red Slime at (1,6)leaves the route41912
7Fight Red Slime at (1,5)37712
10Fight Green Slime at (1,3)36510
11Open yellow door at (1,2)36510
14Open yellow door at (6,8)36510
17Fight Green Slime at (9,6)43210
19Fight Green Slime at (9,5)42810
22Fight Red Slime at (9,3)40310
23Open yellow door at (9,2)40310
26Open blue door at (5,2)47810
27Fight Big Bat at (5,1)32210
28Fight Boss at (5,0)1010

Model episodes on this floor

By model
modelepisodeswonbest final HP
DeepSeek-V4-Flash501910
Qwen3.5-397B12119
Qwen3.6-35B1099
Mistral-Medium-3.5559

All stored episodes on this floor, every configuration together; the thesis reports them per cell (see Results).

Wins (44)
modelfinal HPof optimumcell
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_blockergraphreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash1071%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_trial_v1replay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_trial_v1replay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_trial_v1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5964%hand01_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5964%hand01_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5964%hand01_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B964%hand01_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5964%hand01_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5964%hand01_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash964%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B964%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash536%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash536%hand01_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
Qwen3.5-397B429%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B429%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B429%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B429%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B429%hand01_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay