On a distant planet that serves as the Empire's grid-widget factory, the various control computers went about their daily routine..

Then it happened..

An archaic janitor robot's radio contact died. Using its rudimentary programming, the robot accidentally wandered into the factory. There, it was spun by conveyor belts, and fried by industrial lasers and finally got crushed into a molecular wafer.

The computers were amused

Twelve microseconds later, they held the first 'robo-rally', a race across a deadly, ever-changing factory floor between eager robots with intelligence rivalling that of a door knob.

As one of the main planetary control computers, you oversee the operation of numerous small robots. You issue them commands, but you must keep issuing them commands as they have very short memories

The rally relies on both luck and skill as you draw from a deck of program cards to move and turn the robots. You start each turn with nine program cards for each robot, but only need use five of them. The five you choose and the order in which you program them will decide the fate of your robot as it races towards the next flag in the rally.

But beware: obstacles and other robots have a nasty way of interfering with even the best program..