From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.games
Title: Re: A few zork queries -- SPOLIER
Article-I.D.: alice.906
Posted: Thu Sep  9 07:27:46 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 03:29:36 1982
References: ihuxo.140

To get the egg open, give it to the thief and later on go back to his
lair and it will be laying there open.  To inflate the balloon, take
the newspaper and the matches, put the newspaper in the basket that's
in the balloon and light it.