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From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
Subject: Re: Encrypted hints
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Actually, one of my truly favorite hint methods was in the hint book for
Deep
Space Drifter (though I'm sure a similar method could be found elsewhere).
The hints were listed in a random order, and included minor spoilers and
major spoilers (about five hints per puzzle).  You would find the puzzle
in
a list at the beginning, and be referred to the first hint.  If that
didn't
work, you would be referred to another hint.  To actually get to the final
spoiler, you would have to flip through seven pages five or six times, and
you would never know what the other hints on the page applied to without
having started from the beginning.

Such a method is good, but I've never been a lover of hard copy
documentation.

-- Russ
