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About Tank Trouble

Tank Trouble is a game about ricochets. Two or three tanks sit in a small randomly generated maze; everyone fires bullets that bounce off the walls several times before they expire, and the last tank standing wins the round. The catch — and the entire joke of the game — is that your own bullets can come back and kill you.

Mads Purup released it in 2012 and it spread through school computer labs on the strength of one design decision: three players fit on one keyboard. Player 1 has the left of the keyboard, Player 2 the arrow keys, Player 3 the mouse. Single players face Laika, the computer tank, who is better at this than she looks.

How to play Tank Trouble

Player 1

E S D F to move, Q to fire

Player 2

Arrow keys to move, M to fire

Player 3

Mouse to move, left click to fire

Restart

Automatic after each round

1. Each round drops the tanks into a fresh maze. Drive with your movement keys — tanks turn and move like tracked vehicles, not cars.
2. Fire a bullet; it bounces off walls up to four times before disappearing. Both yours and theirs can kill you.
3. Pick up power-ups that appear in the maze: shotguns, rockets, homing missiles, ray guns, mines.
4. Last tank alive scores the point. Play to whatever total you agree on.

Tank Trouble tips

• Fire around corners rather than down corridors — a bounced shot is much harder to dodge than a straight one.
• Never fire into a narrow dead end you're standing in. That is how most self-kills happen.
• Keep moving after you shoot; your own bullet is still live for several seconds.
• Against Laika, hold a corner where only one approach exists and let her come to you.

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