Turmoil

The mad ruler of El Khazi, Sheikh Abdul Al Kohol, has hidden in the labyrinthine chambers of his palace a fleet of fabulous motor cars. You are Mick, the King's imported scouse mechanic, and because he's only paying you in sheep's eyeballs (yuk!) you decide to steal the King's cars - his pride and joy.

Firstly though, you must fill the cars with oil, because the sheikh is too mean to top them up himself. There is plenty of it in El Khazi but the wily old ruler has surrounded his fleet with his fanatical and murderous personal bodyguard.

Without arousing any suspicion, you must pretend to be working by moving your tools into the workshop, while all the time you are surreptitiously pouring oil down the grid and into the cars.

The object of the game is to build a car by dropping oil through the grid which is situated in the bottom left corner of the screen. To collect oil, pick up the oil can (by moving up to it) and hold it
under the dripping tank at the top right of the screen. Your can will hold a few drops. Oil can be spilt from the jug anywhere by pressing the "drop oil" control. If you are not over the grid an oil pool will form and cause a fatal slip if you, or any Arab, try to cross it.

Tools will appear occasionally, on shelves. A high bonus is given for returning these to the workshop in the bottom right (put down your jug on a shelf before trying to pick up the tool), but you will find this difficult to do since the untidy tools annoy the Arabs!

When you have dropped enough oil down the grid to complete a car, it will drive off and leave you on the next screen. There are 26 screens in all, with many different obstacles - rope swings, lifts, moving platforms, disappearing walls, springboards, conveyor belts, etc. Some may seem impossible to complete, but if you think carefully enough you should find a route to the oil for each screen.

# 2024-01-02 00:23:40 - official description

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