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220. Worsen. This was proposed by Jörg Knappen in the Notes for his game Nachtmahr, and later named by HaruNY. It's a sort of cross between a Rose and a Lion, in that it leaps (1,2) like a Knight and makes a circular pattern, but the turns are 135° so the "circle" is actually a 3x3 square. Only six leaps are given (the initial one, and five repeats), since the seventh would lead to a space where the Worsen could leap directly, and the eighth would lead back to the starting square. ((abq)5N)
Only two of the sixteen possible loops are shown here, since showing all sixteen would be so confusing as to actually show none of them. The blue arrows show the progression of a loop that starts with the second leap taking the Worsen two steps orthogonal from where it started, while the green arrows show the progression with the second leap taking it one step diagonal from its starting point. The two leap arrows show places that the Worsen can leap to directly, and therefore not with the loop shown. It shouldn't be hard to interpolate the remaining fourteen loops by rotating and reversing these two.
The model is an early failed attempt at making a Rose. I ended up turning the petals over (and makikng a few other adjustments) for a successful Rose, but since the Worsen is basically an inverted Rose I figured this would be a good model for that.