The atoms are hidden by a person in a two-player game. The object of the game is to discover the location of objects ('atoms', represented by metal balls in the Waddingtons game and by yellow balls in the Parker Brothers version) hidden within the grid, by the use of the minimum number of probes ('rays'). The game can also be played with pen and paper, and there are numerous computer implementations for many different platforms, including one which can be run from the Emacstext editor.īlack Box was inspired by the work of Godfrey Hounsfield who was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his invention of the CAT scanner.īlack Box is played on a two-dimensional grid. The board game was published by Waddingtons from the mid-1970s and by Parker Brothers in the late 1970s. If you enjoy logical puzzles that require no reflexes to solve, Black Box will entertain you for hours on end, even if the gameplay is a little repetitive.īlack Box is an abstractboard game for one or two players, which simulates shooting rays into a black box to deduce the locations of 'atoms' hidden inside.
The challenge is to correctly deduce the locations with the least number of light rays. If you get stumped you can end the game early and peek at the location of all atoms. Of course, you do gain points for rays that are absorbed or reflected, as well as for a correct guess. To help prevent random guessing, you lose points for a ray that completely misses an atom, or an incorrect guess about the atom's location. This BASIC version of the game is faithful to the board game original, and is easy to learn.
Rays that pass within one box of an atom will be reflected. If a ray directly hits an atom, it will be absorbed. Sort of a 3D version of Mastermind, your goal in this game is to find all the hidden atoms in a 8x8 grid 'black box' by shooting light rays into the box from the side, and observing what happens. Black Box is an early PC version of a 1978 Parker Brothers board game of the same name that emphasizes logical deduction.
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