85 chars, but is not always working (random tests can fail)

Yes, random order of fixed elements are not really acceptable nowadays.

Changed it to escape(Actions).

There is some randomization in the order of mazes. Would you say it needs real random mazes as well?

That's a very bad argument. If clearly the result of escape depends entirely on Action, it should be passed as a parameter. Making it a global object is just code smell.

Needs random tests by the way. All the mazes are fixed.

The main part of this kata is not to find an algorithm for blind pathfinding. It is to adapt to the different results you only get as a string.

That's part of the exploration. This is mainly a puzzle.

I could pass the Actions object as a parameter escape(Actions), but it would not change the solution at all. The following two would virtually be the same, but with the global object you don't have to pass down the Actions to helper functions.

function escape() {
  let next = Actions.look();
}

function escape(Actions) {
  let next = Actions.look();
}

Fixed it

The kata design should be changed. For starters, Actions should not be a global object: it should be passed into the user function as a parameter.

If you want to hide its implementation for the sample tests, just generate one in Preloaded and give that to the user.

If this were an interactive game, I'd see things being part of the puzzle. But for this kata, I think it makes more sense to specify what one can encounter. You don't have to specify all the possible interactions between items and surroundings, but the basics of what we should program for should be specified.

Time: 2146ms Passed: 0 Failed: 30535 Exit Code: 137
                              ^^^^^^^

You need to change the setup of your tests: currently, the tests never stop in a maze and you're sending thousands of assertions You are dead. You crashed into a wall. that are totally useless... and make the browser choke to death => write your tests so that the testing process is stopped for a mase as soon as the first wall is stepped on.

no, this is just bad specifications of the problem... ;p

You're only annoying the users, doing so: forcing to print stuff to the console while you could have just said what the possibilities are.

That is part of the puzzle