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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Goofy Zork 1 questions
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Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu) wrote:
> I decided recently to put my Masterpieces CD and xpdf and XZip to good use,
> so I'm playing all of the games in order of their release.  It's been ages
> since I last played Zork I, yet I managed to finish it in an evening.

> It seems as if by genetic memory or something that I remembered what to do
> with the sceptre and where, but I can't figure out where in the game I was
> clued in that action.  How was I supposed to know?

Well, the sceptre has rainbow-colored enamel on it, and these were the 
days when *the* other game also had a rod that you waved to create a 
bridge. 

> Also, do you have to get all 350 points before you can finish?

Well, if you die, you lose ten points, right? You can still win after 
dying once or twice.

Other than that, I think you have to perform all the point-scoring 
actions, but I could well be wrong.

--Z

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