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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Zork Help needed (SPOILER)
Message-ID: <2407@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 19:47:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 19:47:44 1985
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> 1) What is supposed to be done with the jeweled egg?  Putting it
> in the trophy case doesn't seem to get many points.  Is it related
> to the chirping bird that is occassionally heard?

The egg can be opened somehow.  Only one with nimble fingers
can open such a delicate object without damaging it.

> 2) How do you get past the "wall of shimmering light" in the safe
> deposit room with the magic vault?

"Walk through curtain"?

> 3) How do you get into the entrance of Hades?  I carry the "worthless
> object" from the temple, plus the 2 objects from the altar (with one lit),
> but still no success - any incantation?

The jeering demons could use a little exorcise.
Exorcisms seem to involve lighting candles,
reading from prayer books, ringing bells, etc.
Worthless object?  You must have broken something.

> 4) How do you get the coffin out of the Egyptian room?  Do you get it out
> by using the balloon found in the volcano?  How do you get the balloon to
> work (I can't get it to move)?

There is a way to drag the coffin out.  Keep mapping.
The balloon works by "board basket", "open cage",
put burning object in cage, wait.

> 5) Is there a way to turn off the randomness of the round room?

Yes, there is a button somewhere.

> 6) After you have shrunk (in tea room) and go to through the crack to
> the sewage room, is there anything you can do?  I don't see the purpose
> of shrinking.

You need to evaporate the sewage.  Have you examined the cakes?
You might need a magnifier.

> 7) What do the buttons in the Machinery room (round, triangle, square)
> do? All I get is "thump", "whirring increases"...

See #5, above.

> 8) How do you get the crystal sphere?

Just take it.  Of course, that triggers a trap,
but you have just enough time to escape if you
can get some help dealing with the trap.

> 9) The rainbow is another puzzler for me.  I try digging (with the shovel)
> at the end of the rainbow, and get nothing.  I understand one can make the
> rainbow solid, how?  When one goes down the river in the boat, what does
> one do at the falls (I've tried the barrel, much to my regret)?  

Wave a wand, sceptre, or something.
Forget the falls (Geronimo!).
There is a buoy in the river..

> 10) Is there a way to recharge the lantern?  I tend to run out of light
> before I'm even halfway done (with the dungeon that I know so far..) I
> use the various other sources of light, and turn off the lamp when outside,
> but....

No recharging.  The torch is nice.