Publisher statement The game Obstacle is an obstacle course played on a 9x40 grid. A car is represented by the character '*', the obstacles are the walls (represented by exclamation points and hyphens) and spaces are where the car may travel. The car may not pass over or occupy a wall or obstacle. The character 'S' at the upper left corner, indicates where the car starts from, and the character in the lower right corner, the 'F', is the space the car must occupy at the finish to win.