IC2 is "Infinity Challenge 2" :) Took a while for me too. But after some time, it was self-explanatory.
Yeah. I mentioned in my comment about understanding the shorthand, only to utterly fail in reading the shorthand properly!
I think that one of the nice aspects of this game is that there aren't any insurmountable walls. If you are at a wall, you just need to look around for something you have overlooked and Boom! you're over the wall and on to the next hurdle.