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Subject: Re: Re: Zork II help?  ***** POSSIBLE SPOILER *****
Message-ID: <810@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:19:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 14:19:15 1985
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you have got to be such a loser!! probably a poindexter with no friends
who plays on computers and makes stupid jokes about them.
baby's isn't the correct word for it, it's more like mindless whimps!

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> From: jordan@noscvax.UUCP
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> Subject: Re: Zork II help?  ***** POSSIBLE SPOILER *****
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> Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 12:33:23 EDT
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> 
> To you who asked for help in running the bases in the oddly angled room.
> This is the logic (right or wrong, it worked) a friend and I used to
> solve this chestnut.
>         1. We found a "Babe Flathead" bat
>         2. There appear to be nine areas with diamonds in the room. 
>         3. The wizard taunted us about not getting past first and second
>            base.
> 
> Therefore we concluded we had a baseball puzzle on our hands.
> 
>         4. Depending on where and how you moved, the diamonds would
>            light up from dark to glowing brightly.
> 
> We then tried various methods of movement, i.e. from baseball's position
> 1 (pitcher), to 2 (catcher), 3 (1st Base), etc. No luck. We then hit upon
> the original idea :-) of running the bases, but had no reference point
> for knowing the direction for moving from home to 1st, etc. Right or 
> wrong the following thought I give as a clue occurred to me for establishing 
> a "compass" in Frobozz Field.
> 
> **********  Possible Spoiler  *************
> 
>         1. How did left-handed pitchers get to be nicknamed "southpaws?"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Again, the logic may be flawed, but it helped us get to a place where
> three heads are better than one (Nice doggie.....grrrrrr).
> 
> 
> 
>                                         Good Zorking,
> 
>                                                 Martin Jordan
>                                                 Zorkbuster 1,2,3
>                                                 jordan@nosc.ARPA
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