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In Rotactical, the object of the game is to fill the blue ball bearings with the same color balls.
When you completely fill a bearing with 4 of the same color balls, the bearing is "blown" and changes
to a darker color. When all the bearings on the screen are "blown" you can advance to the next level.
At that time you are shown the password for the next level and get an OK button to click, to start the
next level.
You can rotate the bearings, by clicking on them with the right mouse button.
If you click on a ball that is inside a bearing, with the left mosue button, that ball is ejected and then travels
along the yellow rail to the next bearing.
At any time, only 4 balls may be in motion at the same time.
At the top of the screen you will see 5 pieces of information:
- Your score
- The number of lives you have remaining, indicated by the green balls. You start with 3, when those
are all gone, the game ends.
- Time remaining to complete the level, if fail to blow out all bearings on the level before time expires
then you lose the current life.
- The color of the next ball,shown in the top right corner
- Current ball status bar(just below the line with your score). This line starts
Green and changes colors to yellow, red then black the longer the current ball goes before
falling into a bearing. When this bar turns totally black, you lose the current life.
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Each time you advance to the next level, you will be shown a password for that level.
At the begining of the game, you can enter a password to start a specific level, bypassing
the earlier levels. To do this, click and hold the left mouse button and then type the password.
When finished, and still holding down the mouse button, press the enter key. If you typed the
password correctly, you'll see the level number reset to that level. Then just click on start to
begin.
In total there are 100 levels.
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Color Changer:
The color of the ball is randomly changed in the conduit or is changed to a certain color if that color ball is in the color changer.
Transporter:
The Transporter moves balls to a another location.
By clicking on the transporter, you can change the location of where the balls are transporter to.
Color Request:
Here only balls of the requested color are allowed through. In the example shown, only Green balls would pass.
Traffic Light:
Here the ball bearings must be blown corresponding to the "traffic light" pattern shown.
In the example first with green balls, then pink then red.
The traffic light applies not only to the bearing next to it ,but rather for all bearings on the current level.
Combination:
To blow out a this bearing, the balls must be the comination shown, in the correct positions.
A Combination has priority over a traffic light.
One way rails:
Here balls can only travel one way along the rail, as indicated by the arrows.
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