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The proposed Multi-Strategy Glider Snake Optimizer (MSGSO) retains the original GSO update and subsequently applies nonlinear dynamic polynomial mutation (NDM), elite opposition-based learning (EOBL), and quadratic interpolation (QI). MSGSO was evaluated on CEC 2019 and CEC 2022 with 30 matched random seeds and 15,000 objective evaluations for every algorithm\u2013problem pair. The experiments included seven alternative optimizers and all single, pairwise, and three-operator GSO variants. Across the 34 benchmark problems, MSGSO significantly outperformed GSO on 31 and showed no significant loss. It nevertheless ranked third in each external comparison: L-SHADE led CEC 2019 and CEC 2022 at D=10, while CMA-ES led CEC 2022 at D=20. The ablation attributed most of the gain to NDM; NDM\u2013GSO led the GSO variants on CEC 2019, and NDM\u2013QI\u2013GSO led at both CEC 2022 dimensions. 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