Based off of David Strauß's implementation of Conway's Game of Life, found here.

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Alice enters carrying the white rabbit with the magic watch. Mirrors make her turn 180 degrees. Feathers make her sneeze and drop the rabbit if she's holding it, who immediately runs away. Chess pieces make her nap for a bit [ allowing the rabbit to get farther away if she's not holding it ]. Alice, the rabbit, and Alice while holding the rabbit all follow specific movement rules [ which the team may or may not have to deduce, depending on how interesting the puzzle is otherwise ]. The goal is to force Alice into the wormhole without the rabbit, who can then seal it with the magic watch.

we need to determine the grid and the 3 movement rules

a simple movement rule for Alice with rabbit could be "Go straight if possible, else turn right, else turn left, else u-turn." and then she follows the outside edge of the grid or something but that makes putting a mirror in her path relevant because now the right and left paths are different

maybe Alice moves twice as fast as the rabbit after dropping it in some sort of "shortest path to rabbit" motion and when she hits it, she picks it back up, and resumes the "Alice with rabbit" motion

reset condition? stopping condition?

given movement rules, given object rules and ranges (rules) for each location-object [x * y * 3] place objects play: compute steps display state w/ slider

desired rules that imply unique solution for given grid unique solution with a relatively large number of steps

Objects

Grid: Size: x,y IsValid: bool=function(x,y) (i.e. not an obstacle)

Tools: feathers, chess pieces, mirror Position: x,y (i.e. grid cell) InRange: bool=function(x,y) (e.g. in range)

Characters: White rabbit, Alice Position: x,y Step: function(state) HasRabit: bool (for Alice)

Functions

init() - initialize grid, tools, characters

reset() - initial puzzle condition

Gameplay