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The '''orange button''' or '''flame jet button''' is a button introduced in [[Chip's Challenge 2]]. Each time they change from unpressed to pressed or vice versa, they invert the state of a corresponding [[flame jet]]. Consequently, if multiple orange buttons connect to the same flame jet, they interact with each other in an exclusive or-like fashion: if an even number of them are held down, the flame jet maintains its original state, and if an odd number of them are held down, the flame jet maintains the opposite state. Flame jets also toggle their state when a wire connected to it changes from unpowered to powered; this is an independent interaction which effectively changes the "initial state" that orange buttons see.

An orange button connects to a flame jet in a diamond grow pattern, prioritizing the rightmost flame jet and then searching in a counterclockwise fashion. However, this search seems to stop before the distance exceeds the maximum of the width and height of the map. <!--More research needed. Note that square and non-square grids (or perhaps width and height?) seem to behave differently.-->

Orange buttons only switch from pressed to unpressed, and vice versa, when they detect something moving onto or off of them. Destroying an entity holding down an orange button using a [[bowling ball]] or [[dynamite]] will keep the button pressed, because the destroyed entity never actually moved off of the button. This permanently reverses the state of the affected flame jet, as though it were activated by a [[gray button]] or [[wire]]. Something similar to this can happen with [[black button]]s, but their behavior will return to normal as soon as something moves back onto them.

The '''gray button''', known sometimes as an '''area control button''', is a button introduced in [[Chip's Challenge 2]]. It changes the state of objects in a 5 by 5 square centered at the button, even if the tiles are already [[Wire|wired]]. Tiles that can be changed include [[Toggle wall|toggle walls]], [[Flame jet]]s, [[Force floor|force floors]] (inverses direction), [[Swivel door|swivel doors]], and [[Train track|train tracks]]. [[Clone machine]]s will be activated by gray buttons, even though they have no distinct "switched" state. [[Trap|Traps]], [[Green chip|green chips]], and [[Green bomb|green bombs]] are not affected by gray buttons.

The '''blue button''', sometimes called a '''tank button''', reverses the direction of all moving [[tank|tanks]], with some exceptions, in the current level when stepped on. If there are no moving tanks remaining in the level, with one of the same exceptions, the blue button has no effect.

Tanks will not be reversed if they are standing on [[ice]] or [[force floor|force floors]], unless Chip touched the blue button on his initial move, or landed on it after sliding over one ice, force floor, or [[teleport]]. Tanks standing on [[clone machine|clone machines]] will only switch in the MS version or the most recent [[Tile World]] emulation, and only under specialized circumstances. When this happens, the [[Frankenstein Glitch]] has occurred. This glitch is seen in [[David Stolp]]'s ''table of contents'' and ''ode to a cloned tank, pointed the wrong way''.