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From: cinnamon@iglou.iglou.com (Roger N. Dominick)
Subject: Re: Again: Trouble with RTZ
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 20:27:00 GMT
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Matthew Russotto (matthew.russotto@his.com) wrote:
: I thought it was a pretty good game, with one totally unreasonable, scummy,
: illogical, annoying, stupid puzzle which was probably an inside joke or
: something-- the way to get into the General Store.  That, and the second to
: last puzzle, condemns them to the circle where the wasters and the misers (I
: think that's from Niven's Inferno and not Dante's, but what the hell...) are.

Spoilers...

Well, using a wire to pick a lock is not that much of an abstraction. 
However, figuring out that there was a wire in a brassiere not marked 
"underwire" ... that took some doing. (I assume this is the part of the 
General Store problem you are referring to.)

I absolutely agree about the second-to-last puzzle though. Pure 
randomness solved that one. Bleah.

--r.
