Chip's Challenge 1

Chip's Challenge 1, or CC1 for short, is the original level set released on the Atari Lynx in 1989, Windows Entertainment Pack 4 (WEP4) in 1992, and later with the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack (BOWEP) in 1994. It consists of 149 (148 in the Lynx version) levels which Chip must complete.

As these were the first Chip's Challenge levels, they begin by introducing the functions of the tiles in the lesson levels, then tie them together in Nuts and Bolts, and add new elements only sparingly from then on out. There are very few levels of high difficulty in CC1 compared to CCLP2 or CCLP3, as knowledge of puzzle design and game mechanics were comparatively primitive.

The levels were designed in approximately three parts: 1/3 of them by Chuck Sommerville, another third by a professional puzzle designer (Bill Darrah), and the rest by Chuck's team of programmers and playtesters: James Donald, M. Peter Engelbrite, Victoria Hanson, RG Goudy, Stephen Jungels, Scott Nelson, and Pete Wierzbicki. The initials of Pete W. are left on Block Factory; Bill is known to have designed Castle Moat and Chuck On the Rocks.

Among aficionados of this type of puzzle game, the windows version (usually referred to as the MS version) of Chip's Challenge (usually referring only to CC1 in this case) is famous for its glitches and busted levels. This was a result of changed mechanics from Lynx to MS and little playtesting in the MS version. Although there were many levels made easier, such as Scoundrel, some levels became far more difficult; the level that would become the Spirals corruption had to be changed because the walkers would spread far quicker under MS rules, and levels with extensive use of hot blocks such as Block N Roll and Special became frustrating trial and error challenges to solve due to the inability to block slap.

List of CC1 levels

#	Level Title	Password	Time Limit
1	Lesson 1	BDHP	100
2	Lesson 2	JXMJ	100
3	Lesson 3	ECBQ	100
4	Lesson 4	YMCJ	150
5	Lesson 5	TQKB	100
6	Lesson 6	WNLD (MS) WNLP (Lynx)	100
7	Lesson 7	FXQO	150
8	Lesson 8	NHAG	100
9	Nuts and Bolts	KCRE	400
10	Brushfire	UVWS (MS) VUWS (Lynx)	80
11	Trinity	CNPE	300
12	Hunt	WVHI	400
13	Southpole	OCKS	---
14	Teleblock	BTDY	250
15	Elementary	COZQ	250
16	Cellblocked	SKKK	---
17	Nice Day	AJMG	100
18	Castle Moat	HMJL	600
19	Digger	MRHR	171
20	Tossed Salad	KGFP	400
21	Iceberg	UGRW	150
22	Forced Entry	WZIN	300
23	Blobnet	HUVE	500
24	Oorto Geld	UNIZ	550
25	Blink	PQGV	600
26	Chchchips	YVYJ	300
27	Go with the Flow	IGGZ	200
28	Ping Pong	UJDO (MS) UJDD (Lynx)	300
29	Arcticflow	QGOL	400
30	Mishmesh	BQZP	600
31	Knot	RYMS	29
32	Scavenger Hunt	PEFS	600
33	On the Rocks	BQSN	---
34	Cypher	NQFI	350
35	Lemmings	VDTM	600
36	Ladder	NXIS	350
37	Seeing Stars	VQNK	800
38	Sampler	BIFA	500
39	Glut	ICXY	20
40	Floorgasborg	YWFH	200
41	I.C. You	GKWD	250
42	Beware of Bug	LMFU	300
43	Lock Block	UJDP	200
44	Refraction	TXHL	300
45	Monster Lab	OVPZ	300
46	Three Doors	HDQJ	250
47	Pier Seven	LXPP	300
48	Mugger Square	JYSF	300
49	Problems	PPXI	200
50	Digdirt	QBDH	350
51	I Slide	IGGJ	750
52	The Last Laugh	PPHT	400
53	Traffic Cop	CGNX	500
54	Grail	ZMGC	350
55	Potpourri	SJES	100
56	Deepfreeze	FCJE	250
57	Strange Maze	UBXU	400
58	Loop Around	YBLT	600
59	Hidden Danger	BLDM	400
60	Scoundrel	ZYVI	294
61	Rink	RMOW	---
62	Slo Mo	TIGW	300
63	Block Factory	GOHX	500
64	Spooks	IJPQ	600
65	Amsterdam	UPUN	500
66	Victim	ZIKZ	300
67	Chipmine	GGJA	700
68	Eeny Miny Moe	RTDI	650
69	Bounce City	NLLY	300
70	Nightmare	GCCG	199
71	Corridor	LAJM	500
72	Reverse Alley	EKFT	---
73	Morton	QCCR	600
74	Playtime	MKNH	400
75	Steam	MJDV	500
76	Four Plex	NMRH	550
77	Invincible Champion	FHIC	500
78	Force Square	GRMO	500
79	Drawn and Quartered	JINU	300
80	Vanishing Act	EVUG	800
81	Writers Block	SCWF	---
82	Socialist Action	LLIO	999
83	Up the Block	OVPJ	400
84	Wars	UVEO	600
85	Telenet	LEBX	300
86	Suicide	FLHH	400
87	Cityblock	YJYS	---
88	Spirals	WZYV	400
89	Block Buster	VCZO	450
90	Playhouse	OLLM	400
91	Jumping Swarm	JPQG	400
92	Vortex	DTMI	500
93	Roadsign	REKF	800
94	Now You See It	EWCS	---
95	Four Square	BIFQ	350
96	Paranoia	BIFQ (MS) WVHY (Lynx)	399
97	Metastable to Chaos	IOCS	300
98	Shrinking	TKWD	350
99	Catacombs	XUVU	399
100	Colony	QJXR	---
101	Apartment	RPIR	300
102	Icehouse	VDDU	200
103	Memory	PTAC	600
104	Jailer	KWNL	300
105	Short Circuit	YNEG	350
106	Kablam	NXYB	---
107	Balls O Fire	ECRE	300
108	Block Out	LIOC	350
109	Torturechamber	KZQR	150
110	Chiller	XBAO	399
111	Time Lapse	KRQJ	---
112	Fortune Favours The	NJLA	---
113	Open Question	PTAS	500
114	Deception	JWNL	200
115	Oversea Delivery	EGRW	---
116	Block Buster II	HXMF	750
117	The Marsh	FPZT	---
118	Miss Direction	OSCW	300
119	Slide Step	PHTY	250
120	Alphabet Soup	FLXP	---
121	Perfect Match	BPYS	---
122	Totally Fair	SJUM	300
123	The Prisoner	YKZE	299
124	Firetrap	TASX	800
125	Mixed Nuts	MYRT	---
126	Block N Roll	QRLD	600
127	Skelzie	JMWZ	500
128	All Full	FTLA	400
129	Lobster Trap	HEAN	300
130	Ice Cube	XHIZ	---
131	Totally Unfair	FIRD	60
132	Mix Up	ZYFA	999
133	Blobdance	TIGG	---
134	Pain	XPPH	---
135	Trust Me	LYWO	300
136	Doublemaze	LUZL	---
137	Goldkey	HPPX	450
138	Partial Post	LUJT	300
139	Yorkhouse	VLHH	---
140	Icedeath	SJUK	300
141	Underground	MCJE	---
142	Pentagram	UCRY	---
143	Stripes?	OKOR	---
144	Fireflies	GVXQ	---
145	Thanks to...	TONY	---
146	Cake Walk	JHEN	999
147	Force Field	COZA	---
148	Mind Block	RGSK	---
149	Special	DIGW	999

Top 10 CC1 players

Current as of February 17, 2019

Melinda score - 5,977,800; +8 is possible on Blobnet.
Highest possible bold score - 5,977,720

1. David Stolp - 5,977,660
2. J.B. Lewis - 5,977,650
3. James Anderson - 5,977,570
3. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,977,570
5. Andrew Bennett - 5,977,510
5. Kacper Leszczyński - 5,977,510
7. Andrew Gapic - 5,977,480
8. Evan Dummit - 5,977,400
9. Pekka Lassila - 5,977,160
10. Larry Jackson - 5,977,120
10. Ruben Spaans - 5,977,120

External links

The full high score list, what the records are, and who set and confirmed which records. Maintained by James Anderson.
Jimmy Vermeer's list of the high scores on all CC1 and CCLP2 levels, which has unfortunately not been updated since 2006.