josh@unm-cvax.UUCP (08/12/84)
Note: It has been so long since I played that I don't even remember how
to win. I think I posted this once before.....
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TREASURES (and points; 1st number is for pick-up, 2nd for putting in case):
coins (10,5) 15
torch (14,6) 20
emerald (5,10) 15
bracelet (5,3) 8
necklace (9,5) 14
figurine (5,5) 10
grail (2,5) 7
picture (4,7) 11
portrait (10,5) 15
trunk (15,8) 23
trident (4,11) 15
bar (12,10) 22
coffin (3,7) 10
chalice (10,10) 20
egg (5,7) 12
diamond (10,6) 16
ruby (15,8) 23
zorkmid (10,12) 22
stamp (4,10) 14
small statue (10,13) 23
crystal sphere (6,6) 12
tin of spices (5,5) 10
violin (10,10) 20
Dimwit's crown (,)
pot of gold (,)
brass bauble (,)
canary (,)
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total 357
POINTS GATHERED IN EXPLORATION:
getting in kitchen: 10
getting in cellar: 25
getting in E/W passage: 5
getting in strange passage: 10
getting in thief hideout: 25
getting in machine room: 10
rising in well: 10
getting in Land of the Dead: 30
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total 125
TRAPS:
rusty knife (turns against one)
sharp stick (pierces boat)
barrel (geronimo makes it go down the falls when one is inside)
burning the bible kills
opening the implementers' crypt without precautions kills
pushing buttons (triangle, square) in machine room without precautions kills
smelly & gas room explode if torch, candles, or match are used
vampire bat transports one into ND part of mine
cage traps one and gas poisons one in dingy closet (magic alarm)
USELESS:
useless lamp
newsletter
US News & Dungeon Report
guano (?)
rusty box (?)
DUNGEON ACCESSORIES:
buoy (contains emerald)
machine (changes coal into diamond)
rug (hides trap door)
leaves (hide grate)
TOOLS & PURPOSE:
pump (for raft)
raft (to go downriver to get emerald)
skeleton keys (to open grate)
lamp (to light way)
basket (to lower things in shaft room and raise them back)
machine (to transform coal into diamond)
screwdriver (to turn on machine)
wrench (to open sluice gates by turning bolt)
rope (to go down dome room)
coal (to make diamond in machine)
matchbook (to light fuse; also maybe to re-light candles)
sword (to kill troll and thief)
wicker basket with cloth bag, braided wire, and metal receptacle
(hot air balloon; wire to tie to hooks on ledges; receptacle to hold
fuel--the guidebook; closing receptacle extinguishes fire)
guidebook (fuel for hot air balloon)
bible, lit candles, and bell (for exorcism at Hades gate)
shovel (to dig a hole in Sandy Beach for small statue)
bottle (to transport water to the bucket in the well)
TOOLS OF UNKNOWN PURPOSE:
fuse (shiny wire; to light explosive--brick)
brick (explosive, to open up passage?)
tube of viscous material (glue; to repair pierced boat?)
timbers (to hold up rubble against collapse after explosion of brick?)
library books (ballast?)
bucket (in well)
lunch (with water, puts cyclops to sleep; but that seems unnecessary)
OBJECTS OF DOUBTFUL ESSENCE:
brown sack
bunch of empty coke bottles
stack of program listings
poled heads
pile of corpses
MAGIC & TRICKS:
praying in altar room returns one to forest
pour water when standing in bucket makes it rise in well
"geronimo" makes barrel go down falls when uttered inside the barrel
"hello sailor" when in ... room ...
exorcism (with bible and lit candles, ring bell, then say 'exorcise')
at entrance to Hades
give a treasure to thief to gain time to kill him
put portrait in depository, then go to viewing room ("asking for it"),
then throw it through curtain and get it in viewing room
push red, brown, and yellow buttons in that order in maintenance room to
activate sluice machinery; then turn bolt with wrench at dam to open
sluice gates and allow traversing of reservois (and getting of trunk)
pushing blue button creates leak; plug leak with glue (from tube)
answer to riddle is "well"
carry garlic to bat room
put coal in machine to transform into diamond; machine is activated by turning
switch with screwdriver; all that, plus light (torch) must be lowered
from shaft room in basket; then raised back up
put fuse in brick to make an axplosive; fuse burns long enough to move out of
room after lighting it
say "echo" in loud room to silence it
throw lit torch at glacier to melt it
rub mirror in one mirror room to get to the other
put guidebook in balloon's metal receptacle and light it to inflate balloon
say "Ulysses" to cyclops to make it flee and open way to strange passage
red cake evaporates sewage in pool room to get tin of spices
EAT ME cake (differentiate by putting others in closed bag) shrinks one
blue cake restores one to normal size
orange cake explodes
to get sphere, get robot to lift cage
to get violin, get robot to press triangular button; a steel box will land
in the round room, containing the violin
(robot presses round button: whirring decreases; square: increases)
... to solidify rainbow to get pot of gold on other side
LEFT:
what allows reading cake icing?
granite is a verb! how to use it? should give access to thief's hideout from
temple entrance
cake icing can be read with help of flask of poisonous material
where is hello sailor useful?
how to get in bank vault? and out?
how to solidify rainbow?
how to open egg?
use for explosives? timber?
where to find slag?
INCANTATIONS:
From zork type : "incant, DNZHUO IDEQTQ" to get to endgame
To get to GDT level type GDT and answer chalange. If the first command
you use is GDT, the chalange will be DNZHUE and the answer is IDEQTQ.
GDT COMMANDS:
AA- Alter ADVS
AC- Alter CEVENT
AF- Alter FINDEX
AH- Alter HERE
AN- Alter switches
AO- Alter OBJCTS
AR- Alter ROOMS
AV- Alter VILLS
AX- Alter EXITS
DA- Display ADVS
DC- Display CEVENT
DF- Display FINDEX
DH- Display HACKS
DL- Display lengths
DM- Display RTEXT
DN- Display switches
DO- Display OBJCTS
DP- Display parser
DR- Display ROOMS
DS- Display state
DT- Display text
DV- Display VILLS
DX- Display EXITS
D2- Display ROOM2
EX- Exit
HE- Type this message
NC- No cyclops
ND- No deaths
NR- No robber
NT- No troll
PD- Program detail
RC- Restore cyclops
RD- Restore deaths
RR- Restore robber
RT- Restore troll
TK- Take.
ENDGAME TRICKS:
break beam, then push red button;
enter mirror; really a vehicle sliding along groove; lift short pole to turn
(push a colored wall until north); push pole back in place; push mahogany wall
to move, until end of course; then turn to south (lifting short pole again);
then push pine wall to exit;
answer dungeon master's questions:
nature of cakes: flask
haunted object: rusty knife
to thief's lair: temple entrance
from altar: forest
offends ghosts: skeleton
hello sailor: none
value in zorkmids: 30003
do to mirror: rub
Tell the master to stay in north corridor, go to the pit and "take five".
Open cell door, turn dial to four, push button, go south in the
cell to discover the bronze door, get master to the pit, go to cell,
close its (wood) door, tell master to push button, open bronze door,
get into Nirvana, that's it!
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I think that does it. Sorry about it being SOOOOO long.
P.S. Part of the above was written by another ZORK player here. Lets
give him some blame!
Send me mail . . . I L O V E mail
Josh Siegel
{convex,ucbvax,gatech,csu-cs,anl-mcs,lanl-a}!unmvax!unm-cvax!joshjdi@psuvax1.UUCP (John D. Irwin) (08/14/84)
Well, I finally conquered Zork. (ps: The endgame is pretty neat)
Anyway -- you're missing a lot of stuff -- contact me for details if you wish.
Hello sailor!
--
Spoken: John D. Irwin
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Uucp: {akgua, allegra, cornell, pitt, purdue, ihnp4, burdvax}!psuvax1!jdidavidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (08/14/84)
Hmm, a few clarifications are in order. Some of the equipment belongs
to a version of Zork with more possible points. My comments are in
brackets ...
TRAPS:
sharp stick (pierces boat) [Useful for something else though ...]
USELESS:
guano (?) [Bat guano is explosive under the right conditions ...]
rusty box (?) [There is something in here you need. Open with brick
and wire...]
TOOLS OF UNKNOWN PURPOSE:
fuse (shiny wire; to light explosive--brick) [These two are used on
brick (explosive, to open up passage?) the rust box.]
timbers
[Left over from another version. You tied a rope to it at the top
of the ramp and threw the rope down the ramp. You could then climb
*halfway* down the ramp and get off in a small area. You could also
peer into one of three spheres and see the location of one of the
other two.]
lunch (with water, puts cyclops to sleep; but that seems unnecessary)
[Garlic might affect a vampire ...]
MAGIC & TRICKS:
praying in altar room returns one to forest
pour water when standing in bucket makes it rise in well
"geronimo" makes barrel go down falls when uttered inside the barrel
"hello sailor" when in ... room ... [Nope. Totally useless statement]
exorcism (with bible and lit candles, ring bell, then say 'exorcise')
at entrance to Hades
give a treasure to thief to gain time to kill him
put portrait in depository, then go to viewing room ("asking for it"),
then throw it through curtain and get it in viewing room
[There is another way to do it ...]
push red, brown, and yellow buttons in that order in maintenance room to
activate sluice machinery; then turn bolt with wrench at dam to open
sluice gates and allow traversing of reservois (and getting of trunk)
[Only have to push one button ...]
pushing blue button creates leak; plug leak with glue (from tube)
... to solidify rainbow to get pot of gold on other side
[Wave the stick... Dunno where the idea comes from.]
LEFT:
what allows reading cake icing? [Flask]
granite is a verb! how to use it? should give access to thief's hideout from
temple entrance. [Say "treasure" somewhere in the temple]
where is hello sailor useful? [It's not.]
how to get in bank vault? and out? [It's a long, complicated process.]
how to open egg? [The thief is rather dexterous ...]
use for explosives? timber? [see above]
where to find slag? [Huh?]
If anyone is really into cheating, I have a set of files that can be
piped through Zork that win the game. It is tuned for my system, you
might have to retune it for yours. By tuning I mean that I had to put
some 'waits' in there to make sure that the thief cleared the room
before I walked into it.
For whatever it is worth, I have won the full (616 points?) Zork and
Endgame in is original version at MIT. I *think* I know everything
there is to know about playing it... Enjoy yourselves.
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David C. Kovar
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"The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."