> What exactly is difficult to figure out about the rat? Once I understood the gist of the puzzle, it took a lot of experimenting to figure out how to chase the thing, and I went around in circles a lot, but I don't remember having any problems understanding what I was supposed to do.
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> Is it that people don't make a map, maybe? Or that they don't realize they can control where the rat goes? Thoughts?

My problem with the rat was that I *thought* I'd tried the correct sequence and it hadn't worked. Therefore I didn't try again.

It's some time since I played the game, but I'm wondering if it's related to a practical problem I had, as I played on a 56K modem. Sometimes, if I checked an option and tried to continue before the banner ad had fully downloaded, I got a repeat of the current page, rather the result of what I'd tried. Failing to notice this had happened occasionally led me to to discard the correct option.

Regarding the other games, I agree with the list of difficult problems - except for the power conduits. These gave me no problems whatsoever, and I'm baffled as to why people found it such a difficult problem.

SG