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Not even close.

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Almost . . . but didn't

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[itisnotlogical]

First time playing Nethack, I ate a nymph corpse without thinking. Boy, that was a fun 40+ turns until I gave in and looked at the wiki.

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Teleportitis is a harsh mistress

Spoiler: SPOILERS ARE SPOILERS PERIOD (click to show/hide)

Order of operations: Tengu, then nymph. Not the other way around. Have to follow PEMDAS, you see.

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But but but.... PEMDAS has neither an T nor an N in it...

[lemon10]

The search command (s) has a 14% chance of finding a secret door each turn (assuming 0 luck). That means that you can spend hundreds of turns searching the walls of every single square in the level, and still not find that secret door that takes you to the next level. That said, if you don't use search you probably won't ever find most secret doors.

Spoiler: I suppose this is a spoiler, so if you are crazy enough to try to win without any spoilers at all, then you might not want to read it (click to show/hide)

If you are a Valkyrie, you can get excalibur at level 5, which autosearches (so you can just walk past a wall and it rolls to see if it finds a wall), and if enchanted gives you much better rolls on searching for secret doors.