The first of a series of cassettes all
containing strategy games.
The first program, Decoder, is
similar to Mastermind, in which you must
discover a secret number. The number may
have up to nine digits.
After your guess is entered, the
computer displays two digits. The
first digit indicates how many numbers
in your guess are in the secret number.
The second digit indicates how many
numbers in your guess are also in the
correct position.
One or two players may take part in the
game. In the two player version, each
player has their own
secret number to guess.
The second program on the cassette is
called Switchboard.
A 3 x 3 grid is drawn on the screen, and
each square is numbered one to nine. Some
of the squares also have red squares
drawn within them.
The object of the game is to have a red
square in each of the nine positions.
If, for instance, "1 367" was
printed on the screen, key 1 (on the
computer keyboard) would reverse squares
3, 6 and 7. So if 3 and 7 had a red
square in them, but 6 was empty, then by
pressing 1, 3 and 7 would be empty, but
6 would have a red square in it.
6th December 1983
