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Hello, and welcome to Data Games.
This is an introduction to a game called Cart Weight.
When you begin, a demo movie is playing.
To start a game, click the "Play" button.
This game has a cart with 14 bricks on it.
You're supposed to guess how much this thing weighs.
Enter a guess here where it says, "Guess."
Suppose I think it's going to be... 50.
I type in the number—don't enter "lbs" or anything like that
And click check weight.
The cart will move onto the scale
and we can see that the actual weight of this cart is 42.
Not a very good guess! I got zero points.
Click "New Cart" to get another cart.
Here there are 12 bricks, so it should be less than 42.
Suppose I think the weight is 35.
I enter the number, and click, "Check Weight."
The actual weight was 36, so once again I was wrong.
BUT, I was close, so I got 72 points.
There are 5 carts in every game.
(We'll speed it up here.) Try to get the highest score you can.
This game, we got 172 points.
You can do better.
When you get enough points, you unlock other levels.
We're on the Dubuque level right now.
This "levels" box shows you how many points you need to advance.
Move up to the Ames level, then to Davenport
and maybe even to Urbandale and beyond.
Good Luck!