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From: brisco@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (T.p.)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: "Lode Runner":  Spoiler requested (*spoiler*)
Message-ID: <3193@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 21:25:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 21:25:51 1985
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>with one notable exception:  in level 25, there is a "box" at the top of the
>screen in which reappearing opponents occasionally appear, but can *never*
>escape from;  it is therefore possible for you to kill off all the opponents
>and have them reappear in the box forever!  This happens *very* frequently,
>and since there is one treasure piece that you cannot reach without the aid
>of the opposition, the level becomes impossible to solve, and you must abort
>your player and keep trying.  Not only is this frustrating, but I find it
>hard to believe that the program authors would have included an "impossible"
>level intentionally;  is this simply an oversight, or am I missing some trick
>that I should know about?
>


	Yes!  This level is NOT "impossible". I have gotten past
it many times myself. (Level 75 is my top by playing contiguously).

	The trick is to get in >one< certain position and try
repeatedly (yes, sometimes you will get screwed, but less often
than in other positions).  A crude map follows (please forgive,
I am doing this from memory.)

		 the &%$#' box		    the gold\
		|              |                   | x              |
		----------------		   ------       -----

--------------------------------L           v- whateverstuff->
				L
-----------------------------oooL


	Where the L's are the ladder, and the three o's are the place
where you must kill the guy that you have gotten to come after you.
Note: It is important to dig the very first three holes (one right
after another so he dies in the third).  You may have to do this
3 or 4 times (max). But it will occur.  Even if you get the one guy
trapped in the &&%$# box, try the other.!

			happy digging, 

				tp.

{ps. top score here is 1,200,000  I hold second at 730,000}
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