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How is distance or range counted from a restaurant to a house, and what counts as one step?

The designer repeated this tile-border counting method in several threads over ten years.

  • jmdsplotter · Designer · 2016-01-05
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  • WilbertK · Community · 2021-05-14

Count every tile border crossed, starting from the restaurant's entrance square. A house on the neighbouring tile that the entrance road runs along is distance 1, while a house on the restaurant's own tile that you reach by leaving through the entrance and crossing back is 2.

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