Here's something annoying and new: Yesterday I started up the game and discovered an update. For me, updating my game usually involves more benefits than costs, so I went ahead and did it. Not surprisingly, it popped everyone in my 4X4 challenge out of the actions they were performing, but that's no big deal. There's just four of them, I just asked them all to get started again. Then I asked Min to go downstairs and jump on the trampoline.
"Whaaaaa?! Something is in my way! I can't jump on the trampoline!"
Um, okay. Well, let's try again. Jump on the trampoline.
"Whaaaa?! Something is really in my way!"
Crud. I knew I shouldn't have updated in the middle of a challenge. Umm, okay, let's try moving the trampoline.
"Whaaaaa?!"
So that's not it. Let's replace the stairs. Trampoline?
"In my way!!!"
Okay, so I'll have to ditch the spiral staircase. Darn it, I love those spirals. Let me relocate a door and a bar and half of two entire rooms and I'll put in regular stairs. Crud, they don't fit. So it can't be that, then. I wonder . . .
"Trampoline! I love jumping on the trampoline!"
Do you know what it was? On the wall beside the place where the stairs were, there were hung two high school diplomas. Before the game update, all the sims had used the stairs without a problem, but afterwards, they couldn't. Min couldn't use the stairs because there were pictures on the wall. Not even adjacent to the stairs, but physically above them. Absolutely absurd!