Chip's Challenge/Levels 1-20: Difference between revisions

We all have to start somewhere..Move 2L2UL, take this key and chips, then swap this for a green key and go in a counterclockwise circle to get the rest of the chips. Your first 83 seconds!

Get the top chip, the bottom chip, and continue with 3LURU, which belongs in the first water, and the other block past it. Take the chip at the top of the circle, then the bottom, and finish the level to the west. The best possible time is 90, although the "long first second bug" allows an unofficial time of 91.

Get the flippers, then the ice skates, the fire boots, and then the suction shoes and chip below you. To exit, follow to the east. The best time is 89.

There are four exits from the starting room: the north, east, south, and west directions. You must complete the east, south, and west sections (in no particular order). Once you have completed them, you will be able to pass the chip socket on the north wall and go to the exit.

''West'': Go along the path, switch the tanks when you can, and take the chip, then return to the south section.

''East'': The path splits into two paths. Each of these paths splits again. At the end of each of the four paths is a chip. Start at the top and get the four chips. Whenever a green wall is in your way, press the nearby toggle button. After finishing, go exit. The best time is 116.

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Go along the path to the north, step on the green button to stop the cloning, and take the red key. Use the red key to enter the exit room and release the glider with the first button, and when it gets trapped again, release it with the next button to make it explode the bomb. The exit is now free... the best time is 85.

Move as such: 3L3U3L5DL3U, and backtrack to the exit at the start. You won't need the second room of four chips to the east, because they're inaccessible. The best time is 94.

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Go down through the teleport, take the chip, and then slide up to the flippers, and continue to slide DL. Ignore the fire boots for now, and swim to the chip, then the thief, and slide RL to get the fire boots. Continue U to use them for the final chip, and then slide either way through the port, which will allow you to exit. The best time is 139.

This is possibly the easiest CC1 level, period. 4R, then U or D, and east to the chip, then further east to the exit completes it in 3.2 seconds, with odd-step active.

* NOTE: Odd-step is an important fixture of this guide. Teeth and blobs are initialized into two positions: moving on your second move, or moving on your third move (as nothing moves on your first step), and then every other move after that. Odd-step is the former. There is a control in Tile World that allows you to set this feature simply by pressing O; in MS, you'll have to use trial and error.

Start with the yellow key, bust through the door, and hold the east key until you stop in front of a block. Move this 2U, then step RDRDR, use the block, and take the remaining three blocks to the water by themselves. This allows you to open the red door onto an ice rink; the route through this is, starting from the door: RDLULDRULD2RDLULU. Step again U, then step D to touch the button again, and then continue to the blue key. Use this on the blue door, then swap the walls as necessary to collect the green key, then the red key, and open the red door to slide to a bug and gravel room. (But make sure you wait about half a move before you slide! Splat.)

Walk the gravel four spaces up, then steal the chip on the top, enter the room to the west, and open the block ''underneath'' the chip to take it from the south. As you were passing into and out of here, you could see a block and bomb room; enter this room and shove the first block on the top R, then use the south-west block. Continue with the block on the bottom, then circle to the block now on the very top and take the chip before using it. With one block left, nudge it R before you circle around and use this block in the same way. Two chips are visible, and one is hidden under that block. You now have all the chips except one, which was located at the very end of the ice slide. With this complete, bust through the chip socket and observe...

The fireball is stuck on the trap, and releasing it will simply cause it to circle around again without you being able to reach the exit. You can move the block DL, which will cause the fireball to open the trap for you...or you can just hold the trap open permanently by dropping the block onto it. Now, continue L5U to exit the level. Quite a nutty solution! You should have 306.

It's a big, but not hard, maze of fire, and it's completed with a series of moves: 4D4E4U12R3D3LU7L7DL3D8RU 10R10D4R2UL3UR2UL6U3R18D5L2U10L7U5R. The best time is 51. A bug can be found patrolling this maze (bugs will not touch fire), but you won't be seeing it with this route.

Begin with D3LD, then hold south, west, and north until you reach an east force floor moving up. Continue to move north, then circle west and all the way to the top, where the key awaits. Although the fireball will move east to one space away when you step onto the floor, you can boost away from him and take the key safely! Exit this part, then run all the way south, then all the way to a yellow key. Turn back west, return to the start, and take the ice skates ''only'' before you continue east and take the path to the north. This leads to the last key, then down to the south-east corner, and then take the up force floor to a west force floor, and to another west force floor, which brings you back to the start. Now, take the flippers, its chip, the fire boots, its chip, and skate up and west to the chip. Now, make the turn east and pass the chip socket to exit the level. The best time is 211 - which isn't divisible by 3. Sorry. :(

All right... 4R12D4R4U4R8D4R8U4L4U20L4D4L16D4R8D20R4U4R4D. Bing!.

You won't get this every time, because this level contains a new monster: walkers. Besides blobs, the walker is my most hated monster! It moves like a fireball or glider, but makes a ''random'' turn when it hits something.

Go along the only available path until you reach the area with the blocks, and walk alternately east and north to where a block is in the middle of a vertical wall. Knock this 2R2U, then move the other block to take the flippers (!). Now, return to the moat and swim to the exit, resulting in a time of 553.

 

The solution given above is a hidden shortcut which will only be found by careful searching. To do this level the long (and more obvious) way, you'd need to bridge the moat. This can be done with five blocks. You need to push them to the moat and along it, explode the second bomb you see, then move one block UR of the other bomb before you explode this bomb. Now, take the other block 2RU3R to fill in a key water space, and two more blocks will bridge the moat at the north-east, where it's only two squares wide. This route gives you a bogged-down score of 434.