Cursor*10 - Time Waster

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Cursor*10 - Time Waster

by Jason Clarke Jan 7th 2008

This one is a bit of a mind-bender. in Cursor*10, your goal is to make it to the 16th floor by finding and clicking on the staircase in each room. The interesting aspect is that you get 10 chances, and with each chance you get to use a specific cursor. Once your time runs out, you start with the next cursor, but the previous cursor is along for the ride. In other words, it remembers exactly what you did last time, and does it again.

It becomes quite a race when you have seven or eight other cursors zooming around from room to room, and in the later stages part of the challenge becomes simply identifying the cursor that you are controlling. But games aren't fun without a little challenge, right?

Cursor*10 isn't going to win any beauty awards, but it's an interesting concept done well.

Tags: Cursor*10, Cursor-10, Cursor10, recursive-game, time-waster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Alex M said 11:58AM on 1-07-2008

That's pretty cool.

How do you get past floor 15?

Jason Clarke said 1:28PM on 1-07-2008

I think you have to leave a guy pressing the "useless" buttons on other floors, but I haven't actually been able to successfully do it.

Peter said 2:17PM on 1-07-2008

I assumed you have to press all 3 buttons on the top floor at the same time, but that didn't seem to work.

Alex M said 5:29PM on 1-07-2008

That's how you clear level 7 or 8, but it didn't work for 15... unless you have to have all three buttons pressed together AND for a certain amount of time.

iamhoff said 4:14PM on 1-07-2008

I've been trying to get the "useless" buttons going at the same time too. Maybe there's a pattern? Is it possible that each level needs to be "cleared"?

Kevin M. said 6:37PM on 1-07-2008

Here's the answer to getting to the sixteenth floor. (Spoiler alert!)

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Hold all switches on all levels, then the final staircase will appear.

Geoffrey said 1:08PM on 1-08-2008

SPOILER:

Actually, there are 5 buttons total. 1 is sitting by itself in the bottom corner of a room, with no apparent result from pressing it. Another is in the middle of the room, and causes the stairwell to appear when pressed. The last 3 are all on floor 15. You need only have cursors holding the one by itself with no apparent effect, and the 3 on the 15th floor, to get the final stairwell to appear. Personally, I tried a couple different patterns to get a higher score (highest ended up around 175-ish), but what worked best was for my first guy, go up to the floor with the stairwell appearing one button, hold it for about half the time, then return to the single button and hold it for the rest.

carl said 3:36PM on 1-08-2008

I managed to score 187 or so, and now my finger's all tired out..

Geoffrey said 7:18PM on 1-08-2008

Went back again and put some more thought into my pattern, and managed 188. As far as I can tell, that's the maximum possible score.

carl said 7:35PM on 1-08-2008

I think you're right. After I posted I went back and topped out at 188. There don't seem to be any bonuses for extra time or cursor lives.

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