There was a short scenario written for the original Dying Earth game. It was based on an ancient air car that is found in one of the Vance stories. Players are given a print out of the control board in the car's cockpit–they point and 'move' levers and push buttons to see what happens.
The absolute glory of the thing is that nothing on the air car controls does anything at all until the 'close canopy' button is pressed. Then, everything happens at once. I pushed that lever up but I didn't push it back down, the car is plowing straight forward as soon as the canopy closes. Etc
An ingenious trick to play on the players and it feels related to your game.