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[edit] Blackout
| Developed By | Uberu, LLC |
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| Current Version | 0.1.6 |
[edit] Description
Clicking on a light switches it and it's non-diagonal neighbors on or off. New games can be started at any time.
[edit] Review
Blackout is a version of the classic “Lights Out” game developed by Uberu, LLC. If you are unfamiliar with the game lights out, it is a pretty simple game.
Starting up the application, you are presented with a 5×5 grid of circles, some of which are lit. The object of the game is to turn off all lights. Tapping a circle with toggle its state (turns it off if it was on, or on if it was off). However, it also toggles the state of the circles directly above, below, left, and right of it.
There really isn’t much to say about this game. There is a big “New Game” button at the bottom, which will reset the board to a certain starting position (I believe it chooses which lights should be on at random). If you successfully turn off all lights, you are presented with a simple “You Won!” Message, and then can click the ‘New Game’ button to start over.
My biggest complaint with this game is that it doesn’t always pick start positions that you can win. There is no indication that not all game boards are solvable, so people may get frustrated constantly trying to solve a board that is simply impossible. Update - this issue has been fixed. Now all starting games are winnable!
[edit] Comments
- Not true about the "winnable" games. Every one of them is winnable. You can see a strategy page at http://www.GleesonArizona.com/blackout -- it will show you ways to win every single screen.
- Originally this game would often show screens that were un-winnable (such as ending up with 1 light on in the bottom right corner). This issue has been fixed in one of the updates. As quoted from the website you linked to: "There are some bottom-row patterns which are logically possible, but which have been disabled by the game designers, because they are not 'winnable'."