Strips Help

Concept and programming by Matthew Hudson

Strips is an easy game to learn and can keep your mind taxed for hours.

Your objective in Strips is to realign the scrambled strips in the center of the game board. Easy? Well, if you could just move each strip up and down it would be,  but when you move a strip any adjoining strips to the left and right will move in the opposite direction. Hmmm... That does complicate things.

Playing Strips is easy. Click the arrow on the strip that points in the direction you want to move that strip or if you are using the keyboard move the pulsating marker to the strip you want to move using the LEFT or RIGHT arrow keys, move the strip by pressing the UP or DOWN arrow keys. If the strip can’t be moved or another strip can’t move in the opposite direction the strip that is preventing the move will flash and your strategy will have to change.

Game Menu


Game Menu

GAME:

NEW GAME (Ctrl+N)

Starts a new game with the selected difficulty.

EXIT (Alt+F4)

Leaves the program.

OPTIONS:

DIFFICULTY

When things get easy on one level move through these:

Beginner - 5 strips. This level is easy but a nice place to start.

Intermediate - 7 strips. Its amazing how 2 strips can complicate things.

Expert - 9 strips. You must know you way around a set of scrambled strips to try this difficulty level.

Master - 11 strips. Hmmm... Where did I put that Mensa card?

FAST MODE (Ctrl+F)

If your computer is a little slow or you want the strips to move faster check this option.

SOUND (Ctrl+S)

When this option is checked sound support is enabled. Uncheck this option to disable sound.

SHOW HIGH SCORES

Used to display and/or reset the current high scores list.

HELP:

CONTENTS (F1)

Allows the viewing of this help text.

ABOUT STRIPS (F9)

Allows the viewing of information about the creative talents behind this program, the program's warranty information and information about Softdisk Publishing. Among this information is technical support phone numbers, mailing addresses and other products and services Softdisk offers.