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Robot Coder

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How to play

Tap an arrow card to add it to the robot's plan.

Press the green Go button and the robot follows the cards in order.

Reach the battery to win it. A bump is fine: the robot rolls home to try again.

Tap a card in the plan, or the curly back button, to take it back.

Later, turn cards turn the robot and the loop card repeats the last card.

TipCount the squares before you tap: one arrow card moves the robot one square. The dotted trail shows where your plan will go, and the battery smiles when it will work. With turn cards, look at the yellow arrow by the robot to see which way it faces. When a path is long, tap the loop card to do the same move again without using another slot. On a keyboard, use the arrow keys to add cards, Backspace to take one back and Enter to Go. Pick your favourite robot paint job after a game.

Robot Coder is a first taste of coding with no reading needed. A cute little robot waits on a grid, and a smiling battery waits a few squares away. Tap the arrow cards to line up a plan, press the big green Go button, and watch the robot roll one square for each card. If the plan bumps into the edge or a bush, the robot just gets a little dizzy, rolls home and lets you try again. It starts with one or two arrows on a small grid, then longer paths with corners, friendly blockers to go around, turn cards and loop cards that repeat a move. Every few puzzles you clear a stage and visit a new place: the park, the beach, snowy hills, candy land and the Moon. Each stage also wins a new paint job for your robot.