At first glance, Trials of the Button may appear to be just your average dungeon-crawler, but appearances can be deceiving. Although the exciting adventures offered from this game are many, Trials of the Button is above all a strategy game.

The most important adivce I can give you, the one sentence that sums up this whole strategy guide, is this: STAY ALERT. No matter what dirty tricks are thrown at you along the way, you must be even trickier, and maybe even dirtier. I'm sorry, but that's how the game works. If you want to win, you'll have to compromise your morals in ways you thought you'd never do.

This strategy is organized into two main sections: good strategies and bad strategies. Remember, there's no limit on the number of times you can start over, so feel free to try all the strategies you want.

GOOD STRATEGIES

Play Nice
You must remember that you have no allies in this game. Everything and everyone will turn against you if it suits their purposes, but you must act like you don't suspect anything. Form truces when you can, and don't be the one to break them. The main flaw of this strategy is that sometimes the line between friend and foe get blurred, but keep a clear head and you can pull through!

Use the Power of Technology
Although, there are no commerically available TotB clients yet, is has been proven that a computer-assisted player almost always does better than a player left to his own devices. If you're a programmer, try to figure out an algorithm that will help your character make the best choices. It may sound silly, but when human judgement is blinded by emotion, it may be the cool logic of a computer that prevails.

BAD STRATEGIES

Staring Contest
There are plenty of strategies guaranteed for failure, but this one will help you lose is the quickest and most embarassing way possible. You can't win in a staring contest with the Button. It never blinks.

And there's a 10 percent chance that the button will have the Eye of the Medusa, which will turn you into stone. So don't do that.

Using Cheats
Although there ARE cheats in the game (and more still under development), they are there because we're under contract to put them there, not because it helps the players. Rockstar games sailed a barge full of money to our office and told us to include a cheat that lets you play as Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto. What were we going to do, tell them that bribery is wrong?! You can use the cheats if you want, but don't expect them to get you anywhere.

And don't try to crack more cheats into TotB, because our lawyers are frothing at the mouth to sue someone for violating the End User License Agreement!

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