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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4619042" data-attributes="member: 1656">It does.  But read the rest of what you quoted: "even one that is diagonally adjacent but around a corner".[code]---------cdB----b####--a####--M####[/code]When counting the distance from square b to the Banana, we "start counting from any adjacent square (even one that is diagonally adjacent but around a corner)".  That's square d.  Square d is 1, the Banana's square is 2.  So square b is 2 squares from the Banana.  Square c is also two squares from the Banana.  So moving from square b to square c is not getting closer to the Banana.  It requires less movement to travel from square c to the Banana, than from square b to the Banana, but neither b nor c is closer.We're still counting around solid obstacles, because none of the squares we counted are filled.  But your quote for counting distance explicitly states that you count the diagonal around the corner, not the long path around the corner.  Even though that's not a path you can actually travel.-Hyp.</blockquote>