mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) (01/28/85)
From: utcsrgv!eugene@uw-beaver (Eugene Kligerman) >Another interesting point: Apparently, some of the charges in a wand of >wishing are "blanks" i.e. you zap the wand and nothing happens, and yet >the number of charges remaining decreases by one. A wand of wishes (normally) comes with three charges. After you've used them, you have (something like) a 1 in 121 shot of getting a wish on a subsequent zap (I have gotten two more charges out of a supposedly "dead" wand while waiting to teleport out of shops). I have heard (but not confirmed) that if you are exceedingly unlucky (eaten fido, killed shopkeeps, that sort of thing) a wish might eat more than one charge. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...ucbvax!dual!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg