Rule Clarification: Sharing a Wall?

[jonesyv]

I'm having trouble understanding what sharing a wall means. Intuitively, I would say it means adjacent rooms, even without a door between, such as

|A|B|C|

Where "B" shares a wall with A and C, even if they all only have doors to the north and/or south.

BUT I've yet to correctly solve a puzzle using this assumption (tho I could have erred elsewhere).

I could see it as referring to the continual line, where

A|
B|
C|

C would be considered as sharing a wall with A, as the same line extends through the east side of both rooms (even though they're not adjacent).

Could I get clarification, please? I think it would be helpful to have the definition in the "Help" section as well, similar to how "Adjacent Rooms" are clarified there.

[admin]

Adjoining rooms = sharing a wall. I can see where your confusion comes from though, and I'll see if I can tweak the wording of these clues to be more clear.

[vandykat]

I had a similar misunderstanding - I thought when the clue reads "share a wall", it specifically meant "no door", but it just means a room next to it.

[Afterburner]

If two rooms share a door, then by definition they also share a wall. Otherwise you wouldn't have any place to put the door!

If the clue says "shares a wall but no door", that means the rooms touch one another along a row or a column (corner-to-corner diagonal touching doesn't count), but there is no way to travel from one room to the other without travelling through at least one other room.

Here are some examples:

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In this puzzle, the following room pairs share a wall but no door:

--Library and Map Room
--Map Room and Grand Hall
--Grand Hall and Theatre

The Library and the Map Room (for example) touch each other, so they share a wall. But you cannot travel from the Library to the Map Room (or vice versa) without going through at least one other room.

[jonesyv]

Afterburner, in your example, my original thought (before you all so kindly clarified!) was that the theatre and library share a wall (highlighted in blue in my image), as it's a straight line between the two that helps constitute the perimeter of both rooms.