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At the beginning of this challenge, the text "Ellie lands safely. Now she has to fit the mark three flidget into the probe to make it safe. Ellie climbs into the probe. Amina, Martin and Jenny look after the tools. It is your job to pass the right tools to Ellie. Be quick! This is a race against time!" will appear on the screen; after you have pushed Space to continue, the text of "Please choose an easy puzzle or a hard puzzle" (the text of "easy puzzle" shall also be highlighted, as shown in the above image) shall appear on the screen. You shall then have to use Space to select either option, and push Enter to confirm your choice - and the difficulty you select shall determine the amount of time you'll have to unscramble the names of the tools Ellie asks you for.

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Regardless of which option you select, an hourglass and the probe shall then appear on the screen, with the text "Ellie asks you for a (scrambled tool name). The letters of the tool Ellie needs are mixed up." below them; once you have pushed Space to continue again, the sand in the top half of the hourglass shall start falling down into its bottom half, as a flashing cursor and the text "Type the letters in the right order, then press RETURN, or press F0/F1 to ask Ellie for a clue." appear at the bottom of the screen (the key that you have to push for a clue will once again depend on which version you are playing). In B-Em, F0 is replicated by F1 but in !BeebIt, it is replicated by F10 - and after you have unscrambled the tool's name, typed it in correctly and pushed Enter to confirm it, the probe's headlamps will flash six times and the text of "That's exactly what Ellie needs!", "'That's it!' says Ellie.", or "Well done! You worked it out!" will appear at the bottom of the screen, and you will immediately have to press Space to continue because the hourglass will still be going. However, if you type in the tool's name wrongly and press Enter to confirm it, the text "The children don't know what you mean." or "The children don't understand that." shall appear at the bottom of the screen and you'll again immediately have to press Space to try and type it in correctly; the unscrambled names of the tools that Ellie could ask you for are also clamp, drill, file, glue, hammer, knife, lamp, needle, scissors, spanner, tape, torch, tweezers and wire. Once you have unscrambled six tools' names correctly, the text of "Well done! Together we have switched off the probe and saved the world!" shall appear at the bottom of the screen - and after you have pushed Space to continue for a minimum ninth time, the game will proceed to its twelfth challenge, which you must choose to play on "easy", "hard" or "very hard" difficulty. However, if all of the sand that was in the hourglass's top half should fall into its bottom half before you've unscrambled six tools' names correctly, the text of "Oh dear! That was not quick enough. Try to be quicker next time." will appear at the bottom of the screen, and you will have to push Space to reverse time back to the point where Ellie asked you for the first tool she needed to switch off the probe in a scrambled way (and the game stated its letters were mixed up).