Chip's Challenge 2

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Chip's Challenge 2, commonly abbreviated CC2, is the official sequel game to Chip's Challenge made by Chuck Sommerville. Released on Steam May 28, 2015, it contains 200 new levels featuring both original CC1 tiles and new tiles. CC2 was released together with a re-release of the original 149 levels of Chip's Challenge 1. The re-released CC1 levels available through Steam run on the CC2 game engine and essentially use the Lynx ruleset.

Chip's Challenge 2 had been finished since at least 2002, but publishing issues halted its release. On April 17, 2015, it was announced that Chip's Challenge 2 would be released on Steam in conjunction with a Chip's Challenge 1 re-release. CC2 is sometimes confused with Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2 or other custom level sets which claim to be CC2.

Release problems

Chip's Challenge 2 remained unreleased for over a decade. This is because the rights to the game were sold to Bridgestone Media after the original publisher of Chip's Challenge, Epyx Inc., declared bankruptcy. Bridgestone Media refused to release the game unless a large, unspecified amount of money was paid. Due to this, the Chip's Challenge community put together Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2 (CCLP2), a collection of 149 fan made levels.

Chuck initially tried to avoid this situation by adapting the game's tiles and graphics into a different format, called Puzzle Studio. Since the graphics, sounds and source-code are different, as with Tile World compared to the original Chip's Challenge, it would have be a legal copy of the game had it been completed.

Chuck's Challenge 3D was released in early 2014 and served as a spiritual successor of Chip's Challenge, in lieu of Chip's Challenge 2. The game includes 150 original levels and some tiles not seen in Chip's Challenge 2.

One AVI of a specific CC2 level, named Pigeon Holes, was released in 2002, and is downloadable at Anders Kaseorg's web site, and also viewable as the second video below.

On 26 March 2015, Chuck Sommerville released a video of CC2 running on the Steam gaming platform, showing the first level of the game.

On 17 April 2015, it was announced that Chip's Challenge 2 would be released on Steam on 28 May 2015.

List of CC2 levels

# Level Title Time Limit Level Designer
1 Lesson 1 --- Chuck Sommerville
2 All Ice --- Brad McCleary
3 Key Mania --- Scott Feeney
4 All Shook Up 20 Brad McCleary
5 Down and Out 200 C. Scott Davis
6 Door Ways 200 C. Scott Davis
7 Turtle Blocks 200 Chuck Sommerville
8 Swivels 200 Bill Darrah
9 Lesson 2 --- Chuck Sommerville
10 Alone 150 Nick Lauria
11 Tumblers 33 C. Scott Davis
12 Force Perimeter 200 Joshua Bone
13 Seven Up 100 C. Scott Davis
14 Run-Around 32 Joshua Bone
15 Watch Your Step 99 C. Scott Davis
16 Sea Turtles 300 Joshua Bone
17 Frozen 300 Ruben Spaans
18 No Turning Back 100 Joshua Bone
19 Lesson 3 --- Chuck Sommerville
20 Cobbler 110 C. Scott Davis
21 Eight Ways 300 Brad McCleary
22 Mind Game 250 Brad McCleary
23 Tricked Ya! 300 Nick Lauria
24 Jay Walker 80 C. Scott Davis
25 Triathlon 300 C. Scott Davis
26 Chamber Bomb 300 Ruben Spaans
27 Climbing 100 Nick Lauria
28 Sapper Do 200 C. Scott Davis
29 Lesson 4 --- Chuck Sommerville
30 Inlay 100 Chuck Sommerville
31 Ice Dancing 100 C. Scott Davis
32 Revelations 200 C. Scott Davis
33 Identity Crisis 199 C. Scott Davis
34 Globs 150 Scott Feeney
35 Chips? 50 Nick Lauria
36 Spring Mines 110 C. Scott Davis
37 Hotkeys 202 C. Scott Davis
38 Quick Time 15 Chuck Sommerville
39 Quick Time II 17 Chuck Sommerville
40 Quick Time III 15 Chuck Sommerville
41 Freeze Frame 30 C. Scott Davis
42 You Must Be Joking 5 C. Scott Davis
43 Reticulating Splines 120 C. Scott Davis
44 Silo Bomber 350 Ruben Spaans
45 Middle School 150 Rick Bellamy
46 Long Lost Friend 500 Richard Field
47 Desert Oasis 200 Joshua Bone
48 Trial of Elements 300 Ruben Spaans
49 Caitlyn's Maze 200 Caitlyn Field
50 Lesson 5 --- Chuck Sommerville
51 Mazes 300 Åsa Ehinger Berling
52 Confusion 200 Scott Feeney
53 Quickchip 25 Nick Lauria
54 Sauce for the Goose 111 C. Scott Davis
55 T-N-T Time 100 C. Scott Davis
56 Quick Thinking 15 Scott Feeney
57 Monty Haul 450 C. Scott Davis
58 Gold Rush 100 Joshua Bone
59 Trial and Error? 400 Joshua Bone
60 Lesson 6 --- Chuck Sommerville
61 Feeding Time 100 C. Scott Davis
62 Grab Bag 50 Nick Lauria
63 Disciple 200 Joshua Bone
64 Practice 200 Nick Lauria
65 Chip Himself 200 Nick Lauria
66 Electric Trap 40 Ruben Spaans
67 Ghost Trap 250 Ruben Spaans
68 Lights Out 300 Chuck Sommerville
69 Lookalike 300 Joshua Bone
70 Rail Bowling 125 Ruben Spaans
71 Lesson 7 --- Chuck Sommerville
72 On and Off 350 Nick Lauria
73 Ghost Bridge 100 Anders Bager
74 Mush 100 Nick Lauria
75 Dress Code 70 C. Scott Davis
76 Thaw 100 Joshua Bone
77 The Rover Room 200 Nick Lauria
78 Strict Process 50 Ruben Spaans
79 Onion 200 Joshua Bone
80 Chip Palace 250 Nick Lauria
81 Campfires 250 Nick Lauria
82 Avalanche 50 Nick Lauria
83 Double Dare 300 Nick Lauria
84 Off Key 300 C. Scott Davis
85 Scrambled Eggs 20 Nick Lauria
86 Tank Help 50 Anders Bager
87 X Marks the Spot 400 Nick Lauria
88 Escape 500 Brad McCleary
89 Closet 30 Nick Lauria
90 Evil Twin 100 Joshua Bone
91 Monster Race 50 Darren Loney
92 Tripwires 300 C. Scott Davis
93 Apartments 50 Darren Loney
94 Decisions 350 Nick Lauria
95 Ouroboros 90 C. Scott Davis
96 Easy? 15 Nick Lauria
97 Think Fast 130 Åsa Ehinger Berling
98 Sibling Rivalry 250 Nick Lauria
99 Binary --- Chuck Sommerville
100 Crazy --- Chuck Sommerville
101 Tank Blocker 150 Chuck Sommerville
102 Obstacles 450 C. Scott Davis
103 Runway 75 Nick Lauria
104 Pieces of Eight 350 Chuck Sommerville
105 All-in-One 140 Rick Bellamy
106 Maze of the Obeyor 200 Ruben Spaans
107 Wing and a Prayer 50 Bill Darrah
108 Repaer Mirg 500 Joshua Bone
109 Say "Cheese" 150 C. Scott Davis
110 Flea Market 300 LimoJohn
111 Sdrawkcab 75 C. Scott Davis
112 Bowl to Freedom 15 Anders Bager
113 Teeth Attack 100 Darren Loney
114 In the Long Run 150 Nick Lauria
115 Double Trouble 700 Ruben Spaans
116 Ghostbombs 125 Nick Lauria
117 Room #9 400 Joshua Bone
118 Ship Ahoy 250 Brad McCleary
119 Ghost 75 Ruben Spaans
120 Foursome 300 Joshua Bone
121 Flip-Flop 123 Nick Lauria
122 Fire and Ice 900 Bill Darrah
123 Chaoslands 50 Ruben Spaans
124 Yellow Brick Road 12 Joshua Bone
125 Wolfpack 50 Joshua Bone
126 Ice Threat 50 Ruben Spaans
127 Bomber Maze 555 Bill Darrah
128 Winter in the Marsh 200 Joshua Bone
129 Firing Range 100 Joshua Bone
130 Nonsense 100 Joshua Bone
131 Jetline 300 Nick Lauria
132 Breaking In 250 Joshua Bone
133 Panic Chip 210 Scott Feeney
134 Re:Think 100 Joshua Bone
135 Clueless 350 Joshua Bone
136 Big House 500 Joshua Bone
137 On the Run 80 Darren Loney
138 Construction Zone 400 Joshua Bone
139 Re:Think II 100 Joshua Bone
140 Rebel 350 Joshua Bone
141 Logic Prison 800 Ruben Spaans
142 Fish and Chips 50 Joshua Bone
143 Caverns 400 Joshua Bone
144 The Village 100 C. Scott Davis
145 Turning Point 400 C. Scott Davis
146 Barricade Brigade 75 Darren Loney
147 Factory 80 Darren Loney
148 Tank Rush 50 Joshua Bone
149 Banquet Hall 450 Joshua Bone
150 Rush 10 Chuck Sommerville
151 Minefield 100 Joshua Bone
152 Pattern Buffers 35 Nick Lauria
153 Deathtrap 100 Joshua Bone
154 Pigeon Holes 500 Chuck Sommerville
155 Venice 999 Joshua Bone
156 In the Slime 250 Bill Darrah
Chuck Sommerville
157 Swivel Motel 350 Joshua Bone
158 No Easy Task 300 Joshua Bone
159 In & Out 450 Joshua Bone
160 Antarctica 400 Joshua Bone
161 Dodgeball 30 Joshua Bone
162 Ice Castle 400 Ruben Spaans
163 Blox 450 Nick Lauria
164 Cross-Circuit 40 Nick Lauria
165 Melinda 911 500 C. Scott Davis
166 Quadro 200 Nick Lauria
167 Prey 500 Joshua Bone
168 Phase Four 350 C. Scott Davis
169 Bombs Quad 800 C. Scott Davis
170 Practice to Perfect 500 Åsa Ehinger Berling
171 Haunted Castle 800 Joshua Bone
172 Campgrounds 300 Nick Lauria
173 Clear Out 800 Åsa Ehinger Berling
174 Blocky Trouble 800 Ruben Spaans
175 Thinktank 400 Joshua Bone
176 Line and Sinker 500 C. Scott Davis
177 Mine Challenge 100 Remi Spaans
178 Breaking the Ice 500 Åsa Ehinger Berling
179 In & Out II 900 Joshua Bone
180 Smuggler 250 Joshua Bone
181 Deadmeat 150 Joshua Bone
182 Sea Queue 600 C. Scott Davis
183 Hired Hand 100 Joshua Bone
184 Gears 100 Chuck Sommerville
185 Slambam 450 LimoJohn
186 Da Bomb 200 Joshua Bone
187 Endangered Species 600 Joshua Bone
188 Clone 400 Joshua Bone
189 Island 18 Joshua Bone
190 Dysphoria 222 C. Scott Davis
191 Push Up Maze 300 Ruben Spaans
192 Boiler Room 150 Joshua Bone
193 Tank War 200 Joshua Bone
194 Memories 400 Nick Lauria
195 Spare Me 123 C. Scott Davis
196 Swamp 400 Bill Darrah
197 Blockcombo 4 650 Chuck Sommerville
198 Chip Off the Block 100 Bill Darrah
199 Room to Breathe 800 Nick Lauria
200 Crazy II --- Chuck Sommerville

List of designers

Name Number of Levels
Anders Bager 3
Rick Bellamy 2
Åsa Ehinger Berling 5
Joshua Bone 52
Bill Darrah 7
C. Scott Davis 36
Scott Feeney 5
Caitlyn Field 1
Richard Field 1
Nick Lauria 34
LimoJohn 2
Darren Loney 6
Brad McCleary 6
Chuck Sommerville 23
Remi Spaans 1
Ruben Spaans 17

Top 10 CC2 players

Current as of February 18, 2019

CC2 Scores

  • Highest known bold score - 14,538,011
# Player Score
1 Ruben Spaans 14,536,261
2 J.B. Lewis 14,536,071
3 "random 8" 14,532,781
4 Jeffrey Bardon 14,352,234
5 Isaac D 10,654,642
6 Kacper Leszczyński 10,601,191
7 Reynaldi Judianto 10,577,816
8 Miika Toukola 10,556,756
9 Tyler Sontag 10,511,451
10 Naemuti 10,476,107

CC2 Times

  • Highest known bold time - 37,744
# Player Score
1 J.B. Lewis 37,630
2 Ruben Spaans 37,622
3 "random 8" 37,342
4 Reynaldi Judianto 37,100
5 Isaac D 33,049
6 Tyler Sontag 31,210
7 Kacper Leszczyński 30,965
8 Jeffrey Bardon 30,449
9 Naemuti 28,803
10 James Anderson 28,618

See also