Solving the Jack-Stucks

[Toybox]

I just found a very entertaining way to get Jack out of some Jack-Stucks without having to restart everything. Say that Alice gets stuck in Bob's mansion, which can be called, say,

Forsaken Fortress

.

• Alice suspends her game and sends a detailed JS report (what room, which corner of the room, etc.) to Bob.
• Alice renames her mansion file

  Forsaken Fortress Original

  .
• Bob prepares a modified version of the mansion where some additional architecture can unstuck Jack. That could be a ladder taking him out of a crevice, a new hole in a blocking wall, etc.
• Bob sends the modified

  Forsaken Fortress

  file to Alice.
• Continuing the game using the modified

  Forsaken Fortress

  file: Alice gets Bob out of his sorrow to a safe place (where Jack isn't stuck anymore).
• Alice suspends the game again, deletes the

  Forsaken Fortress

  file and renames the

  Forsaken Fortress Original

  to

  Forsaken Fortress

  .
• Lo and behold, Alice's Jack isn't stuck anymore!
  

Note: keep the unstucking device straightforward! Don't add puzzles! (When you make the updated version of the mansion, without the Jack-Stuck, then you can add puzzles and make big modifications. Here the point is just to get Jack on the right track again.)

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