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From: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: stuck in curses - help?
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Organization: Respect. Freedom. Growth. Stuff (not Things).
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:26:08 GMT
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I'm playing Curses, by Graham Nelson, and enjoying it a great deal.
Very literary and clever. (I picked it up from the mac archive at
sumex-aim.)

If anyone's gotten more than 100 points playing the game, perhaps you
could give me a hint.  Listed below are the spots I'm stuck at.  I'd
be particularly interested in a hint for any puzzle you recall as
being unsatisfying or unfair.  Thanks!

getting past:
 sandstone recess
 goats (I have shepherd's crook, doesn't seem to help)
 wall of thorns
 ticket gates in metro

getting to:
 se corner of hedge maze
 heaven
 odd little balcony

getting apollo's counsel
distracting corn crake
defusing bomb
getting ship into bottle
saving andromeda

I've found no use for: the gothic-looking iron key, the smooth round
stone (compass), the hard wooden ball, and the weed killer bottle.
(And a lot of other stuff too, but I would have thought these
particular things would have had some use by now.)


-Matthew Ryan, aka Curious Of All Natures
mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu          http://uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu/~matt/
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