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Rules of the Road |
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The “How to Play” Basics – When driving
a real car, you must follow a few basic rules; drive on the
right, stop at red lights, don’t take short cuts across people’s
lawns. In the same way, you need to understand a few basic
driving rules before you start playing Coast to Coast.
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Moving the Car |
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There are two ways to move your car:
slide it along the tracks, and shift, or pivot, the car from
track to track. These moves cannot be combined. |
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Sliding the Car |
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You may slide your car along the map
when it is flush against the map surface and the vehicle posts
are fully engaged in the map tracks. As you play, you’ll notice
that you can progress only so far this way, because the tracks,
or road segments, stamped into the map surface are not
continuous. |
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Pivoting the Car |
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Your car has two large posts hanging
down from its undercarriage. You move from track to track by
lifting one of these posts up through one of the large holes in
the map, pivoting the car on the other post, and then dropping
the first post through another large hole into a new track in
the map surface. |
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the rules for this movement are as
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• Before you can change tracks by a
pivot maneuver you must position your car so that one post is
located in a small hole, and one post located in a large hole
(see figures 1 and 2). |
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• Begin by pressing the first car post
against the small hole from below the map, and lift the other
post through the large hole so that it is above the map surface
(figure 3). Now you may spin the car around on the
axis of the fixed post, and place the free post into an
available large hole in a new track (see figures 4,5 and 6). |
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• Note, that while the free post is
tilted above the map surface, you may NOT move the fixed post
out of the pivot area in the small hole. |
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• Once you have repositioned the open
post into a new track, you may continue sliding your car (see
figure 7). |
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Driving No-no’s |
• You may not drive with both posts in
the same track. Too dangerous!
• Never remove the car entirely from both tracks, except to
reset the puzzle. Unsafe!
• Never slide your car along the track when one post has been
disengaged from a track. That’s cheating!
• Never force movement of the puzzle. This is a fine-tuned
machine! The distance between the two posts on the bottom of the
car will limit your ability to reach some holes, or make some
turns. If you’re pretty close to a hole but just can’t reach it…
you’re not supposed to!
Good Luck and
Happy Puzzling to you! |
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