PIPELINE
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This issue features the start of a new feature in Sinclair Programs. To
celebrate our new monthly appearance we have decided to inaugurate a
Program of the Month.

The first worthy winner of the coveted award is P R Luckett of
Hammersmith, London, with his enthralling, original and altogether
outstanding brain game, Pipeline, for the 48K Spectrum.

Luckett works at the European Patent Office in Munich, examining
applications on digital signalling techniques; his mathematical bias is
apparent in the five strategies he has managed to build into the
computer play.

He has owned a Spectrum only since Christmas, afer eight computerless
years, and feels this listing could doubtless be made more elegant,
particularly in the resolution of the data lines into their mathematical
bases.

The ability to follow winning mathematical strategies, Luckett feels,
gives the computer an unassailable advantage in this type of game.

Pipeline casts you as an unprincipled pipe-laying engineer. You are
shown the playing area and the choice of three types of tiles which you
can use to continue the pipe. Each tile is traversed by two white lines
and a sharp eye must be kept to trace the twisting path of the pipe as
it coils and flexes across the board.

The winner is the one who plays into the top right-hand corner of the
screen, or who forces an opponent to play into the side of the board.
Play against another Sinclair Programmer or against the Grand Master
Spectrum, which we have not yet beaten at advanced level.

An astounding listing. Congratulations to our cunning author and good
luck to our fortunate readers - you will love this one. (48K Spectrum).