Challenge 3: The Dodge

To be clear: This is not the Episode 3 Immunity Challenge. That's up to you and your life Decisions. This instead holds the key to your safety in Episode 4. But it's still a Challenge, and you still need to get it done. So pay your utmost, undivided, unbroken, uncompromised, uniform and unwavering attention because you may need it to remain alive. (And Actors have a harder time than most once they die and are open to all kinds of Cancellation, whether or not they leave a ghost behind.)


In this Challenge you will be examining a map of the are around The Lodge. Right now it seems an evil apparition has locked us in, but even so - if we do ever escape this haunted Lodge, we'll need to know where we're going. There's only one problem - from beyond the grave, the Baroness has tampered with the map, erasing all the roads that connect the places we may shelter! Shelter is important in Survivor, and joining roads together is a form of Networking for trainee Actors, so this is the most relevant and important task you could possibly be doing right now. Got it?


This kind of map is otherwise known as a Flow Free or Numberlink, and here's how it works.

When you begin the Challenge by joining the Member Group called 'The Dodge', you'll be able to access a grid which looks something like this:




You'll need to paste the image into Paint or some other image editing program, and draw lines to represent roads which connect shelters of the same colour. Pair up and connect all of the colours, and fill the entire grid with roads by ensuring a road moves through every grid space. However, the roads should not overlap. Draw every road in a colour that matches the shelters that road connects (you don't need an exact match on the shade of colour, but red should be with red, blue with blue, etc). And never create a 'U-Turn' square of four or more grid spaces taken up by the same colour road - if you've made such a square there is inevitably a shorter path your road could have taken, so you've drawn it incorrectly.

Here is what the example above should look like when it is solved correctly:



And here is a submission which would be considered incorrect for breaching the above rules:




Once you've drawn in all the roads and satisfied all the rules, save your solution and upload it, then post it in your Challenge thread to finish the Challenge. This one is assessed in time; the shorter the time between your joining the Member Group and your uploading the correct solution, the better you will have done in the Challenge.

One last stipulation, however: if you take longer than 30 minutes to complete this Challenge, we will deem you to have timed out at that point. To be clear, it should not be taking you that long. But if it does, then you can and should give up after half an hour without being penalised further in any way.


As the plans for next Episode were left outside of The Lodge, and we're all locked in there for now, we can neither confirm nor deny what winning or losing this Challenge might mean for you in the future. But we know it is in your best interest to read through all the instructions carefully, and to do as well as you possibly can.