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Chat Noir - Time Waster
by Brad Linder Nov 30th 2007
Chat Noir is one of those games that looks really easy until you actually play it. You know, like chess. OK, maybe not like chess, but still, we dare you to beat this Flash game on your first try. Or your tenth.The rules are pretty simple. Try to prevent the cat from leaving the board. All you have to do is click a bright green spot to make it dark green and fence the cat in. Every time you click a spot, the cat gets to move one space.
After wasting about half of the morning, we can now definitively tell you that the game is beatable.
[via Neatorama]
After spending the better part of an hour on 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
joe domp said 3:44PM on 11-30-2007
Pretty fun. Without trying very hard I seem to beat it once out of every three tried. The cat seems to try to head for the square that is the fewest moves to an exit point. The hardest move to predict is the first one....pretty well no matter what you do, he'll go the opposite way.
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Peter said 4:01PM on 11-30-2007
Joe - I was winning about 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 also. There does seem to be a fair amount of luck based on guessing where his first move will be and the placement of the starting "blocks"
skinneejoe said 4:26PM on 11-30-2007
Sorry guys, I beat it on try numero uno. (aka number one). It was fun while it lasted though!
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Ryan said 1:51PM on 12-01-2007
I also beat it on the first try. I guess you just have to think a few moves ahead like in chess.
Cory Anotado said 4:28PM on 11-30-2007
Yeah, you guys suck. I got it on the second try (the first try was me figuring out what to do.)
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Alex M said 4:49PM on 11-30-2007
I'm sorry to say it (yeah, right!), but I boxed the cat in on my 3rd try. Your profuse warnings probably made me concentrate harder, though :)
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chris said 5:35PM on 11-30-2007
ditto :)
Brad Linder said 4:50PM on 11-30-2007
OK, this just proves what I've suspected all along. Most Download Squad readers are far smarter than me. Either that or you spend way too much time playing time wasters. :)
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tyler said 5:09PM on 11-30-2007
I beat it on my first try as well. Just fenced the little guy in quickly and he couldn't get out. Really easy game. Seriously though, I think I'd actually have to TRY to lose.
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Bill said 9:28PM on 11-30-2007
Alright, now I feel real dumb! I can't seem to beat this and I don't often have issues. So HELP!
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Isaac said 9:28AM on 12-01-2007
Yeah, it's not actually too hard
but I really enjoyed the game =) pretty fun
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Ethan said 9:30AM on 12-01-2007
I won on the 5th try.
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marty said 9:31AM on 12-01-2007
Got it on the third try
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Atanas Boev said 11:47AM on 12-01-2007
second time. all of us, DLS readers are soclever! and we really like to comment on that :)
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noroom said 5:54PM on 12-01-2007
2nd try here.
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Keith Murray said 11:26PM on 12-01-2007
That was one of the EASIEST games I have ever played!!
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Jabapyth said 11:26PM on 12-01-2007
First try too ;)
(unless you "win" after beating some number of levels)
The path finding algorythm they use is pretty easily beatable, though. you just draw it into a situation you can easily block and it takes the cat a while to get out of.
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Klippoth said 12:22AM on 12-02-2007
I beat it he first time, and most of the time after that. It is a fun game, but it would be better if there was an increasing difficulty curve (maybe less blocks initially given or something)
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inkblob said 8:43AM on 12-02-2007
the first time I tried this I lost, but I was making a chain, following my own dots. you can put your green dots anywhere, not sure how you can't win at this. mabye the cat should move 2 spaces
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mike said 8:25AM on 12-03-2007
Yeah i was preening my ego after winning on the first try as well....then i lost about 10 in a row.
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