1. WELCOME
Welcome to the updated version of Tiger's classic Lights Out
game. There's more challenge than ever before -- including
games with color variables! So fasten your seat belts and
fire up all the synapses in your brain -- you're about to enter
weeks -- maybe even months -- of electronic puzzle
excitement!
2. OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object of the game is turn off the lights on the game
board in a minimum number of moves. Pressing the squares
on the game board matrix will either turn the light ON or OFF
on the board according to the cross-shaped effect pattern.
All the squares that were ON will turn OFF and vice versa,
according to the cross-shaped effect pattern.
3. KEYPAD
ON/OFF
- turns the game ON or OFF
(the game shuts off automatically after three
minutes if no button is pressed within that time)
SOUND - to control sound ON/OFF
START - starts the game
- confirms the selected puzzle number
- confirms the input puzzle
- restarts the game
SELECT
- selects the type of game (3-Color, Action,
2-Player, or Classic)
- selects the mode of game (for 3-Color and
Classic)
- exits from the present game
HELP / SCORE
- to get hints from the computer
- displays the "maximum score", "Score ID" and
"Authentication code" in the Action game
select menu
- displays score in action game
4. HOW TO PLAY
Press the ON button to turn on the unit. The default game
will be game 1 mode 1. When the unit is turned ON, a "home-
run pattern" (the lights circling around the game grid) followed
by the effect pattern will show on the board, indicating that
you should select the game you want to play.
Pressing the START button will immediately start game 1
mode 1 playing with the latest puzzle.
Press the SELECT button to select the game and the START
button to start the selected game:
So, by repeatedly pressing SELECT you can scroll between
each of the game/mode combinations. LEDs will light next
to the appropriate labels.
Pressing START will get you straight to the selected game
except for 3-Color Puzzle Pre-Programmed and Classic Puzzle
Pre-Programmed. In these two game modes, you can select
the previous puzzle instead of current puzzle by pressing the
SELECT button. This is because the game will save your
progress through all the puzzles -- once you beat a puzzle
in Pre-Programmed Mode, you don't have to play it again. If
you want to play a puzzle you've already beaten, you can
use the SELECT button to play the previous puzzle. For
example, if you finish 10 puzzles in Classic Puzzle Pre-
Programmed and then turn off the unit or start another game
mode, the next time you play 2-Color Puzzle Pre-programmed
game, it will default to the 11th puzzle. You can select puzzles
1 to 10 using the SELECT button (see below for more detail).
GAME 1 (3 - Color Puzzles)
MODE 1 (Pre-Programmed)
There are 100 pre-computed puzzles stored in this game:
25 puzzles in 4 different levels of difficulty. The puzzles begin
with 5 step solutions and the most difficult puzzles could take
up to 24 steps to solve!.
Before you start playing the puzzle,
there is a blinking square on the
board indicating the puzzle number.
- Indicate a number between 1 and
25 by flashing the appropriate LED
to Red.
- Indicate the level of difficulty (1-4)
by flashing the appropriate LED in
Green.
Minimum moves
For the first 25 puzzles, if the Red square appears in:
row 1
5 steps puzzle
row 2
6 steps puzzle
row 3
7 steps puzzle
row 4
8 steps puzzle
row 5
9 steps puzzle
For the next 25 puzzles, if the Red square appears in:
row 1
10 steps puzzle
row 2
11 steps puzzle
row 3
12 steps puzzle
row 4
13 steps puzzle
row 5
14 steps puzzle
For the next 25 puzzles, if the Red square appears in:
row 1
15 steps puzzle
row 2
16 steps puzzle
row 3
17 steps puzzle
row 4
18 steps puzzle
row 5
19 steps puzzle
For the next 25 puzzles, if the Red square appears in:
row 1
20 steps puzzle
row 2
21 steps puzzle
row 3
22 steps puzzle
row 4
23 steps puzzle
row 5
24 steps puzzle
SELECTING A PREVIOUS PUZZLE
During the game play, you can exit from the current puzzle
and select another puzzle to play. You can choose any puzzle
from the first puzzle up to the highest puzzle you have
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25
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23 24
ROW 1
ROW 2
ROW 3
ROW 4
ROW 5
Start
On/Off
Sound
Help/Score
Select
press
7) Press this button.
8) Almost there! Press this button.
9) Press this button again.
10) LIGHTS OUT! You did it!
Mode 3: Insert Puzzle
Level
1
Level
2
Level
3
Level
4
Mode 2: Random
Mode 1: Pre-Programmed
The three green lights
turned off, and the off light
turned red.
The red lights all turned green.
Now try the next puzzle on
your own!
The green lights all turned off.
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Game 2:
Action
Game 3:
2- Player
Game 4:
Classic Puzzles
Game 1:
3-Color Puzzles
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