From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houca!lime!we13!plw Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Title: Re: Luck vs Skill Article-I.D.: we13.279 Posted: Mon Jun 14 02:13:52 1982 Received: Tue Jun 15 00:55:30 1982 Has anyone descended thru the 'Dungeons of Doom' picking up nothing but food and gold? If so, have they found the coveted 'Amulet of Yendor' and returned to the surface a Total Winner? I have found that one needs two things to be guaranteed a Total Winner - a scroll of genocide (to do away with UHs) and a Magic Arrow (+13000,+13000 more or less) to kill the other monsters. Skill, of course, is of the mental type in this game (it's inter- active but not real time). Perhaps it is the skill of figuring out things the Guide doesn't tell you. Various strategies suggested seem to depend upon a certain amount of luck and don't work in every case (read game).