Chapter 8

Games for the Light Fantastic

In This Chapter

arrow Making more projects with the Light Fantastic keypad

arrow Finding hidden treasure and learning the resistor color code

arrow Making a color sequence sliding block puzzle

arrow Trying your skill at matching colors

arrow Battling logic to get all the lights out

Having built the Light Fantastic in Chapter 7, you’re ready to have some fun with it. This chapter presents four games, along with ideas for variants and more complex puzzles. Each one is colorful fun.

remember If you haven’t built the Light Fantastic yet, be sure to turn back to Chapter 7. You won’t get very far in this chapter otherwise.

A few notes before we begin: The Light Fantastic consists of illuminated push buttons. Each one can be set to a range of colors too subtle for your eye to distinguish. In scientific terms, this is known as better than a “just noticeable difference.” The color of each ...

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