Come on...:), and the gameplay itself doesn't take up much time...
Cool. I spent half the evening trying to explore the map. Nothing worked. Everything is done with particular ingenuity. The starting castle is just awful under these victory conditions. The monsters bite and kill the hero, and only send the skeletons to their final resting place.
If it continues like this, the path to the top three will be more than easy - I'm constantly being sent to grind in a small area...