How to play Tutorial skip

You are stuck in a video game tutorial that refuses to end. Each step gives you an instruction and a rapidly draining timer. Most steps want a button: press the A, B, X or Y it asks for, on screen or on your keyboard. Some steps describe the button in a riddle instead of naming it. And some steps are traps that tell you to press nothing at all, where the winning move is to sit on your hands until the bar empties. Correct steps score points with a speed bonus, and holding still on a trap pays a flat reward. Three slips and the tutorial claims you. The pace ramps up until reading and reacting blur into one motion.

Tips

• Read to the end of the instruction, the trap is usually in the last word
• Doing nothing on purpose is a skill, and it pays a flat bonus
• Riddle steps describe the button: vowels, grades, treasure maps
• When the timer bar turns red, trust your first instinct

About Tutorial skip

Tutorial skip is a love letter to every game that made you press a button to learn how to press a button. The tutorial here has become fully self-aware and mildly unhinged: it asks you to open menus nobody needs, celebrate your own inputs and thank it for its patience. The catch is that you must obey it exactly, at speed, while it slips in reverse instructions and do-not-press traps with genuine follow the leader energy. It starts polite and ends as a reflex gauntlet where a single misread finger costs you a slip. Three slips and the tutorial wins, which it insists was the lesson all along. Quick rounds, big buttons, works great on a phone. Free in your browser, no login, no skip button. Obviously.

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