Description:
The goal of the game is to correctly position the atoms so that the x-ray beams will be correctly reflected through the grid.
For more information, read the help menu.
Update Description:
v1.1.0:
- Add a button to see the solution (Danger button)
Reviews:
**** [Mar 16, 2008] by Aaron
This works great on my palm TX with no bugs or crashes. I was hoping to find this game but am very surprised that i did!!! I can see that unfortunatly not many people even know what it is!! To my knowledge this is based on the board game "Black Box" which might have been from the 70's. I'm not sure because i found my BlackBox game in a thrift store, i'm just going by the look of the packaging. Basically it was a two player game involving a black grid with dimples in it onto which marbles could be placed. All around the edges are spaces for "Rays" to be cast into the black grid. Rays were represented by tiles that came in pairs. One person has a dry erase card on which they "hide" the atoms or marbles on the grid. Placing one ray at a time, the "seeker" fires imaginary rays into the game field by placing one symboled tile into a square around the edge. the Hider figures out the trajectory of the ray by how it interacts with their hidden marbles on the dry erase card. The ray follows rules which are a little different in this palm version but basically the same. Hiting a corner of the marble makes a right-angled turn, hitting a marble directly makes the ray get "absorbed" or come back the same way it came in. After figuring out the fate of the ray, the Hider puts the matching ray tile around the edge. This Palm version is nice because you can very easily visualize the ray as it is very literally there. in the board game it was very abstract because the rays are invisible, of course they are only imaginary. The game was over when the seeker either placed the marbles on the board correctly or ran out of turns and was stumped by the configuration. Players could compete to find the marbles in the least amount of turns. I think peoples biggest problem on here is that they don't understand that the atoms are only in the right place when ANY ray fired into the box comes out EXACTLY where it should. At this point, the computer will alert you that you have won the round, just as it should.
** [Sep 2, 2007] by Jared
I'm not sure why I'm not winning this game. I used my atoms to deflect the x-ray to the exit point, but I can't figure out any way to know where to START it. And because the starting point influences everything else, there are millions of ways to arrange the x-ray and atoms and still not get it right. I think I'll delete this one.
**** [May 19, 2004] by Mark Simpson
The first level of the puzzle is to understand how to play the game. I disagree with my fellow reviewer - the game was quite responsive enough. No problems there at all. It does say in the instructions that it's possible to hide atoms on top of one another. Presumably that's what he experienced when he said that atoms dissapeared. The tutorial level lets you see if your block is in the right place by way of a short red flash, but at the moment I'm unable to fathom the logic of the full game. Help me someone! This game is crying out for a little more information up front. And I'm not the one to do it! Pierre ... anyone ... help! :)
**** [May 18, 2004] by Robert Bindler
I really had trouble choosing how many stars to give this game. The concept is great; i don't know if it is original, but I can really see myself spending hours on this thing. However, there were two problems: 1) It is slow. Sometimes it feels like an eternity (probably more like a sec or two) for the game to react to a tap. This almost made me lose my patience once or twice, tapping furiously for the #!8@ing game to "move". 2) Sometimes, the atoms dissappear. How? I haven't narrowed it down yet. It looks like sometimes the X-ray's go right through the atoms, thus eliminating from the board. How are you supposed to place 5 atoms correctly when you're down to 4? Then again, it may just be that I tapped too many times waiting for tha game to respond (see problem #1). These problems aren't too bad, so I'm going to rate it as "fair".
*** [May 18, 2004] by Nico
Looks very interesting at the picture, but doesn´t work correctly in my Treo 270: There is no grid displayed and no beam gun. Only the atoms are there :-(
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