Talk:Secret Room

Possible guaranteed Super Secret Room?
(version is Afterbirth+) I have a strategy when searching for possible Super Secret Rooms. From the boss room, I bomb the *first available valid spot, in a room where there is no other valid spots,* and HAVE YET TO MISS, over numerous attempts.

(edit: literally just missed, lol. the possible room was off the map tho)

I believe there may be a pattern here.

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Viable spots must meet three criteria:
 * Connect to no more than one room.
 * Be the only viable spot in the room.
 * Searching from the boss room, be the first viable spot.

Maybe a visual will help... (we gamefaqs up in here boiiiis)

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Let's use my example from Afterbirth+, seed PNRB NJHS. (haven't unlocked much, so idk if that changes anything.)

(note: i'm new at this, so if there's a standard, sorry! [ ] denotes nonexistent rooms, [#] denotes actual rooms, [B] is the boss room, [?] is the super secret room.)

(note2: gonna be talking about specific rooms by row and column, Battleship style. [i wish they kept to a standard there.] Letters denote columns; A-C, left to right. Numbers denote rows; 1-4, top to bottom.)

[#][#][?] [B][#][#] [ ][ ][#] [ ][#][#]

Man that took a while. Okay!

We're starting from the boss room, A2. The super secret room cannot be directly connected to the boss room, so we go to the room directly to its right, B2.

B2's top and bottom possible secret rooms were both blocked off by poops, so they cannot go there. (In addition, possible secret room B3, directly below B2, is connected to 2 other rooms, meaning that the Super Secret can't be there anyways.)

The only other link is to the room to B2's right, aka C2. C2 is connected to possible secret rooms C1 and (off-map) D2. However, D2 is blocked off by a pit.

It may be confusing, but this means that C1 has met all the criteria. C1:
 * Connects to no more than one room. (It only connects to C2)
 * Is the only viable spot in the room. (D2 is blocked off by a pit, and C3 is a normal room.)
 * Is the first viable spot found while searching outwards from the boss room. (No viable spots connected to B2.)

So, I bombed my way into C1, and found myself at the Super Secret Room.

I hope someone here can decipher my ramblings and refine this into usable information.

civilCornball (CC) (talk)