Chest Hero Part 2 - Mini Games

Chest Hero did a big update around 9/5, and among other things it added were a set of mini games.  You can get to these from the top icons, click on Trials.  The games are:

1. Tame the Pets

 
I don't recall ever seeing this game mechanic before.  You have to cut ropes so the pets will drop down to you, but it takes a few seconds for the pets to walk to you, and you have to have enough levels to tame them when they reach you or they kill you instead.  So you can't just do a straight cut across all the ropes, or they will all come down at the same time.  You end up having to add some swirls to delay the sword -- it slowly follows the path you draw, so you have to draw it in a way that it will drop to low level pet first, then delay as much as needed for that pet to reach you before dropping the next one.  Interesting.  And it's intuitive enough that after two or three fails you should get the hang of it with no tutorial needed.  It turns out there is a limit to how long the path can be, which is fair.

2. Save the Bees

 
You have to draw a line again.  This time you have to protect your guy from the crazy bees for 10 seconds in order to survive and beat the level.  This game was more difficult than just cutting ropes, since the bees bang against your line of defense and can move it, sneak inside, or even knock you around so much you pass out.  A strange situation, and it's much less clear which shape will work as they jiggle the whole thing around.

3. The Knight Charges
 
Here you have a grid of tiles and you have to click a path for your guy to pick up enough strength points to beat the boss at the end.  Of the mini games, this one is the most trivial.  You pretty much just have to choose the longest path and tap the boss to zoom along and kick its butt every time.
 

Sell the Artifacts 

Each level shows an artifact with a magnifying glass, where I suppose you look for flaws.  The point of having the magnifying glass over the artifact is to find the flaws.  Click the flaws to mark them, and for each one you mark, the asking price goes down.  When you think you've found all the flaws, click the Deal button.  If you found them all, you beat the level and can move to the next spot on the map.  It's simple, but I like the way the merchant reacts as you uncover all the cracks and blemishes.

 


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