Crack It! Towers

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Description

Crack It! Towers is a puzzle game for multiple systems.

The player must travel through the many puzzling rooms of Crack It! Towers, as they're challenged by the evil of Count Crack It. There are 3 levels of difficulty, but challenge difficulty responds to the player's performance. The goal is to claim the seven golden keys and steal the secret of Crack It's power at the center of the castle.

Challenges include: playing hangman against Oswald the Rubber-Necked Duck, playing nim against Crack It's monsters, an arcade sequence against black bats where the player answers arithmetic questions, solving number sequences to help Jim the Jellyfish swim, solving multiplication questions to avoid dangling spiders, guiding Albert the Alien across a minefield, and solving word scrambles.

If the player answers a question incorrectly they're thrown into the castle moat, where they must answer questions to avoid piranhas, or risk losing their keys. Bonus keys can be claimed in the Maze of Skulls, where the player must figure out which of 17 skulls has a key, while avoiding the 4 skulls that are deadly. The green spider, the blue skull, and the ugly bug can steal the player's keys during gameplay. There are also power failures, where a word is briefly displayed on the screen, and the player must memorize it.

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BBC Micro1985Electron1985ZX Spectrum1985