Black Box

Publisher's blurb Black Box is an 8-by-8 square in which several atoms are hidden. The object of the game is to discover the positions of the atoms by projecting rays at them from the sides of the box and noticing how these rays are deflected, reflected, or absorbed. Rays enter the box across one of the four edges and travel horizontally or vertically. User summary Black Box was written by Jeff Kenton and published as type-in source code in Creative Computing Vol. 4, No. 3, May/June 1978. The program computerizes a paper, strategy game first published in Games and Puzzles, August 1977.