Floor

hand02

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 65 model episodes
13 HPexact optimum: the most HP left when the boss falls
13 HPanswer of the published solver
1winning sets of cleared monsters and doors (1 optimal)
11 × 119 decisions on the optimal route · 1,539 search states

Optimal route

Route on the map
HP62final 13
ATK / DEF9 / 4
Keys0 / 0 / 0yellow / blue / red
Step0 / 199 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 · 13 HP

Every decision clears a door or fight node; items and fights that cost nothing are taken automatically ("auto"). 1,539 states expanded.

Optimal route against the models' wins

38 model episodes won this floor; 6 reach the optimum of 13 HP. Below, monsters and doors only, the exact optimal route next to the most common winning trajectory (26 wins clear the same monsters and doors in the same order), as played in this DeepSeek-V4-Flash episode (final HP 4).

turn 5 The trajectory leaves the optimal route here: Fight Green Slime at (7,9) where the route takes Black Slime (5,7). The state value (the most HP still reachable at the boss) falls from 13 to 4 HP.

Open the episode at turn 5 to read the model's reasoning there.

Exact optimal route9 decisions
#clearsHP after
1yellow door (3,9)137
2Black Slime (5,7)97
3blue door (5,3)97
4Green Slime (7,9)285
5yellow door (7,1)285
6Skeleton (9,3)245
7Junior Guard (1,7)275
8Junior Guard (3,1)310
9Boss (1,1)13
Most common winning trajectory26 episodes
turnactionHP aftervalue
3Open yellow door at (3,9)13713
5Fight Green Slime at (7,9)leaves the route1164
8Fight Black Slime at (5,7)764
10Open blue door at (5,3)764
14Open yellow door at (7,1)2764
18Fight Green Slime at (9,9)assisted2764
19Fight Skeleton at (9,3)2364
22Fight Junior Guard at (1,7)2664
25Fight Green Slime at (1,5)assisted3414
26Fight Junior Guard at (3,1)3014
27Fight Boss at (1,1)44

Model episodes on this floor

By model
modelepisodeswonbest final HP
DeepSeek-V4-Flash40184
Qwen3.6-35B1084
Qwen3.5-397B10713
Mistral-Medium-3.55513

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

Wins (38)
modelfinal HPof optimumcell
Qwen3.5-397B13100%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Mistral-Medium-3.513100%hand02_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.513100%hand02_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.513100%hand02_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.513100%hand02_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B13100%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_trial_v1replay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_trial_v1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B431%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
Qwen3.5-397B431%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_final2replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
Mistral-Medium-3.5431%hand02_mistral-medium-3.5_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
Qwen3.6-35B431%hand02_qwen3.6-35b_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash431%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B431%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B431%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
Qwen3.5-397B431%hand02_qwen3.5-397b_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_reactive_t32replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_final2_la1replay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay
DeepSeek-V4-Flash323%hand02_deepseek-v4-flash_canonreplay