I-Top Pro
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Model: U00167Toys and Games Reviews of I-Top Pro
Customer Review: Secret Modes
Summary: 5 Stars
My son received an original I-Top a couple of years ago and I thought it was great. I found it at the bottom of the toybox recently and we have been playing with it for a past couple of days. It is still fun. I found the I-Top Pro on clearance at Toys R Us today for about a third of the normal price so I picked up one for our family and one for a friend. The Pro version just adds to the fun.
In mode 6 you can enter messages (3 separate messages up to 12 alphanumeric characters each) and my 7 year old thinks this is just the coolest thing. He's been asking us to spell words for him and this may motivate him and his six year old brother to work harder learning to read and spell.
For those of you asking about secret codes it is mode 6 that lets you unlock these. The instructions tell you to enter CMP as the message to display a compass (just like the one in the hidden mode of the original I-Top). The only other one hidden mode I've found is AAA which displays a pattern of lights.
Another feature I stumbled across is that if you enter certain four letter words (just four letter word) as the message you get a sound but the profanity is not displayed. So far I've only found a couple of filtered words. I haven't let the kids in on this feature. A friend discovered that if you add a space or another word the filtered words are displayed so apparently it looks for an exact match.
I suspect the rest of the I-Top Pro secret features are hidden in three or four letter combinations like CMP or AAA. If you count the space character and the numbers from 0-9 that gives you a total of 37 possible characters or 50,653 possible three letter combinations so there are a lot of possibilites for three letter secret codes and an astronomical number of possibilities if (over 6.58 billion billion) if you consider 12 character messages.
So if you are looking for secret codes try entering three letter combinations in the messsage mode 6 and see if you get a display of three characters or something more interesting. You can also look for more filtered words.
Max
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