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Intellectual Decathlon
Summary
Intellectual Decathlon is a 1984 video game for the Apple II. It is a multiplayer game which includes various events based on memory, pattern and logic puzzles. Intellectual Decathlon was written by Gabor and Alexander Laufer, and published by Muse Software.
The game consists of ten different sub-games which aim to test different aspects of the human intelligence. The score is structured similar to an Olympic decathlon. A player's final score is the total of the ten individual events:
Numberstretcher – The computer presents longer and longer string of numbers for the player to memorize (presented only for a few seconds) and type back.
Note the Notes – The computer plays a short random tune, 6–8 bars. Then the computer starts playing a long sequence of random notes. Without notice, the initially presented short tune is played hidden within the longer tune, which the player must identify.
Safecracker – The computer presents 9 dials on the screen (3x3) and a single hand in each dial points to either 12,3,6 or 9 o'clock. With key combinations the player has to set as many dials to 12 as he can. For example, pressing number 1 on the keyboard will rotate dial 1,2,4,5 90 degrees clockwise. None of the dials can be individually adjusted.
Mazerace – A randomly generated maze appears on the screen. Player 1 is in the lower left corner, Player 2 is in the upper right corner. They have to get to each other's starting point (played at the same time).
Apple Derby – An imaginary horse race where the players bet their points earned during the first four events. No luck is involved, it is all pure logic. The race is pre-determined. The moment the horses take off, the program knows exactly which horse will win. That's what the players have to figure out from presented data from those horses' previous history of success.
Lying digits – Ten simple (four basic operations) math problems are flashed on the screen with the solution which is either wrong or right. That's all the players has to indicate.
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