[Avoid Yourself Challenge] Exceeding 100 turns and running itself without other options results in lose

[coreyja]

My snake exceeds the 100 turns, and eventually eats a lot of food and runs out of options, and runs into himself.

This seems like its enough to trigger a lose 😢

That feels like it fulfills the spirit of the challenge so is maybe a bug?

[andrewdmaclean]

Hey @coreyja 👋 Sorry for the delay. Do you have a link to the game?

[coreyja]

Here is an example (just ran it): https://play.battlesnake.com/g/8c257114-daf6-454f-a3bb-dc4e8a67693b/?title=Avoid%20Yourself

At turn 236 my snake has boxed himself into a corner. Since he doesn't consider moving off the board (ever) he runs into himself, but it is AFTER the 100 turns.

[chris-bsnake]

The challenge is working as intended. Generally, with challenges we are expecting developers to tweak their snakes for each type of challenge. In this case the challenge has a hard rule that you can't run into yourself.

[coreyja]

That makes sense!

The hover tooltip for the challenge DOES indicate that as well: It currently reads Survive for 100 turns and don't hit yourself

[chris-bsnake]

Yes, we want to do another iteration on the layout of that page to make the instructions much easier to find. Hiding them in a tooltip is not great.