Has anyone found the magic trick to being able to perfect the game everytime? Usually I leave the bricks until the end, and about 50% of the time I can't clear them with the energy I have left.
Like collieman says, collecting the extra exp as early as possible is really key.
Here's my (long winded) how I try to do that...
The extra exp comes from chests, the dragon egg, the bombs, and the gnome. The chests and dragon egg are what you will collect in the early game, but the others are also important.
Highest priority is figuring out the board. This is what gives you the best chance of collecting the extra exp. as early as possible. Mark everything you can, crunch the numbers, and use all the tricks. Keep at it until you have the full board figured out.
Pick your fights carefully. In fact, fight as little as possible. Don’t just plow though the monsters because you can. The best game will have the most high power monsters still on the board when you’ve figured out where everything is. Make your picks ones you think will best help figure out more of the board. Lower power monsters let you do more exploration.
Be meticulous with your health. If at all possible, never level up or use a health scroll with any hearts remaining. Plan ahead on your fights to use up all your health, but in a pinch, banging on a wall is better than wasting a heart. It’s one less heart you’ll use at the end.
Find the purple slimes (but don’t fight them), and take out the wizard and reveal all the slimes. The purple slimes are the only 8 power monster, so if you can figure out a tile is 8 or a pair is 16 or a triple is 24 (in the right place), the wizard is within reach.
Find the rat king and reveal all the rats. I find this easier once you’ve revealed the slimes, as it’s the only other 5 power monster.
Find the lich. It’s in one of the corners. It’s important to know where it is before you reach 10 hearts. Kill it as soon as possible and collect all the bomb exp you can.
Keep track of the 4 guardians, purple slimes, lovers, and mimic. The sooner you know where all the high power monsters are, the easier it is to navigate uncertain regions. The race is on to corner the gnome.
Once you’ve figure out the full board, it comes down to carefully killing all the monsters to always use up all your health. Plan ahead. Try to kill the mimic at 11 hearts and dragon at 13 hearts. Similarly, hold off on the lovers as long as you can. Conserving low power monsters makes it easier.
The best I’ve done is 8 hearts remaining.
First you need to enable Markdown. Go to Settings > Profile, down at the bottom of the Content section enable “Prefer Markdown input where available.”
Once that setting takes effect, you will see the Markdown logo (M with arrow pointing down next to it) in the upper right corner of input box. With markdown, you can also use a limited set of HTML tags. The collapsing content is wrapped in details tag, and a summary tag inside that is the visible part. I’ll try to put example below with extra spaces, maybe it won’t format it?
< details > < summary > Text that always shows </ summary > Content that is hidden unless expanded. </ details >