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====Investigating the maze====
 
====Investigating the maze====
:[When you begin the game by using the arrows you start to move the hoverboard Cueball around – he will from now on be “you”. You soon discover that there are five more gold coins in the maze and that it is higher. You also find out that you can deliver coins at the terminal. When you do the coins you have taken reappear, and the number of coins you have taken and the time will appear beneath you. Moving around in the maze you find that there is a spot on the right wall above the other Cueball from where you can see the entire maze. From here you describe what you see.]
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:[When you begin the game by using the arrows you start to move the hoverboard Cueball around – he will from now on be “you”. You soon discover that there are five more gold coins in the maze and that it is higher. You also find out that you can deliver coins at the terminal. When you do the coins you have taken reapers, and the number of coins you have taken and the time will appear beneath you. Moving around in the maze you find that there is a spot on the right wall above the other Cueball from where you can see the entire maze. From here you describe what you see.]
  
 
:[To begin with you stood in the lower left corner of the maze on the floor, next to the left wall. Above you there is a coin. Above the coin is a ceiling. To the left of the coin is an opening out of the maze. To the right a wall going down, this makes this a kind of small shaft. To the right from the floor is a ramp going up. At the top is a coin. The ramp rests on a box on the floor. Behind the ramp and the box is the terminal where you deposit the coins. On the other side of the terminal is another box on top of which is a coin. Behind the box on the floor next to the right wall is a coin. The wall is thick here, but it ends a small jump above the floor. There is a hole in the wall to the right here, but although you could stand on this wall where the hole is, you cannot get out, as there is a small part of the wall (normal thickness), that goes a little further, and makes the hole to slim for you. Above this hole is the thick slab hanging in the air on which the other Cueball stands. There is a coin to his right and to the right of this yet another opening to the right of the maze. But once again this is too small (low) for you to pass through as the right wall continues up here. To the left of Cueball and a little down there is a line with a little higher edge to the left. The shelf is beneath another longer line going from above Cueball and to just above this little edge to the left. On the shelf lie three coins. There is a “soft” spot in the line above these three coins where you can jump through. This takes you up to either left or right part of the line, which is solid enough. There are two coins to the right and one to the left. To the left of this the wall creating the shaft above where you start reaches up to this height. Here is another shaft, along the left wall going down. There is a coin over this opening. The floor of this shaft is the ceiling above where you started. There is a hole in the maze to the left here as well. Above the coin is another thicker slab where you can stand. The wall to the left is only solid at the level of the coin beneath this slab. You can also jump out the maze to the left above the coin, beneath the slab. On top of this slab there is a coin. There is no wall on the left of this slab, so also here you can exit the maze (the forth exit to the left). To the right of you there are two curved lines forming brackets turned the wrong way like this:“) (“. The brackets are in the middle of the maze their center above the soft spot in the floor of the line beneath them. In the very middle of these two brackets there is a coin. There is also a coin above the top of each bracket. Just above these coins is the ceiling of the maze. Just left and right of the left and right coin there are two openings in the ceiling, from which you can exit the maze. To the right of the brackets is the right wall. Above the slab that Cueball is standing there is a triangular structure jutting out from the wall. Just beneath it is yet another hole in the maze wall to the right, but for the third time it is too small to get out. It is possible to stand on the wall just beneath this, which is what you are doing now, to see the entire maze in one go. Only thing is that to get here you had to take one coin, the one to the right on the line with the hole in the floor. Above this triangular item the wall continues a little while but then there is the first and only hole in the right wall big enough for you to use as an exit to the right. Just beneath this hole, above the triangle is the last coin.]
 
:[To begin with you stood in the lower left corner of the maze on the floor, next to the left wall. Above you there is a coin. Above the coin is a ceiling. To the left of the coin is an opening out of the maze. To the right a wall going down, this makes this a kind of small shaft. To the right from the floor is a ramp going up. At the top is a coin. The ramp rests on a box on the floor. Behind the ramp and the box is the terminal where you deposit the coins. On the other side of the terminal is another box on top of which is a coin. Behind the box on the floor next to the right wall is a coin. The wall is thick here, but it ends a small jump above the floor. There is a hole in the wall to the right here, but although you could stand on this wall where the hole is, you cannot get out, as there is a small part of the wall (normal thickness), that goes a little further, and makes the hole to slim for you. Above this hole is the thick slab hanging in the air on which the other Cueball stands. There is a coin to his right and to the right of this yet another opening to the right of the maze. But once again this is too small (low) for you to pass through as the right wall continues up here. To the left of Cueball and a little down there is a line with a little higher edge to the left. The shelf is beneath another longer line going from above Cueball and to just above this little edge to the left. On the shelf lie three coins. There is a “soft” spot in the line above these three coins where you can jump through. This takes you up to either left or right part of the line, which is solid enough. There are two coins to the right and one to the left. To the left of this the wall creating the shaft above where you start reaches up to this height. Here is another shaft, along the left wall going down. There is a coin over this opening. The floor of this shaft is the ceiling above where you started. There is a hole in the maze to the left here as well. Above the coin is another thicker slab where you can stand. The wall to the left is only solid at the level of the coin beneath this slab. You can also jump out the maze to the left above the coin, beneath the slab. On top of this slab there is a coin. There is no wall on the left of this slab, so also here you can exit the maze (the forth exit to the left). To the right of you there are two curved lines forming brackets turned the wrong way like this:“) (“. The brackets are in the middle of the maze their center above the soft spot in the floor of the line beneath them. In the very middle of these two brackets there is a coin. There is also a coin above the top of each bracket. Just above these coins is the ceiling of the maze. Just left and right of the left and right coin there are two openings in the ceiling, from which you can exit the maze. To the right of the brackets is the right wall. Above the slab that Cueball is standing there is a triangular structure jutting out from the wall. Just beneath it is yet another hole in the maze wall to the right, but for the third time it is too small to get out. It is possible to stand on the wall just beneath this, which is what you are doing now, to see the entire maze in one go. Only thing is that to get here you had to take one coin, the one to the right on the line with the hole in the floor. Above this triangular item the wall continues a little while but then there is the first and only hole in the right wall big enough for you to use as an exit to the right. Just beneath this hole, above the triangle is the last coin.]

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