~2 minute readNew Zork Times Puzzle, Number 2
NOTE: Due to the late mailing of the Winter ’84 issue, the deadline for Puzzle Number One has been extended to July 1, 1984. The solutions to Puzzle Number One and Puzzle Number Two will both appear in the Summer ’84 issue.
The following transcript contains references to all of the first eleven Infocom games -— except one. Identify that game. Answer: __________________________
Living Room
This is a large and impressive room, whose furnishings bespeak the great personal wealth of the Robners.
A wood pile sits beside a huge fieldstone fireplace. Grouped in front of the fire are a glass-topped coffee
table and a rattan davenport and club chair, with cushions covered in a print showing bamboo plants in the
style of Japanese brush-painting. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with strange gothic
lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy case, and a large oriental rug in the center
of the room.
>EAST
Kitchen
You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used recently for the preparation of
food. A rat nest fills one of the ovens, and cobwebs are everywhere. There is some rotting food in a
garbage heap in one corner. A window to the east is slightly ajar.
Sitting in the sand, bulging a little, is a beaten-up knapsack.
>OPEN THE KNAPSACK
Opening the knapsack reveals a canteen.
>TAKE THE CANTEEN
Taken.
>INVENTORY
You are carrying:
- a fancy violin,
- a disfigured device,
- a canteen.
- The canteen contains:
- a quantity of high-protein liquid
>CLIMB THROUGH THE WINDOW
Forest
This is the forest primeval, conifers and cycads in rank profusion. Here and there huge trees thrust upward
through the forest canopy. One particularly large tree is to port of here.
A hellhound is racing straight toward you, its open jaws displaying rows of razor-sharp teeth.
CONTEST RULES:
- All entries must be submitted on this form. No copies accepted.
- All entries must be received by August 1, 1984.
- Up to ten prizes will be awarded for correct answers. If more than ten correct answers are received, a drawing will be held to determine the winners. Void where prohibited by law.
PRIZE: A copy of Seastalker
Please enclose your name, address, telephone number and the system you’d want Seastalker to run on. Return to Infocom, NZT Puzzle, 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
This article appeared in
New Zork Times, The
Apr-Jun 1984
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