For Your Amusement
(after you've finished the story)
What did we name the cubes here at Infocom?
- Dave gave them boring names like "Earth" or "Air."
- Gary gave them all incomprehensible (to others) single-letter names,
because he hates typing.
- Max named one "Ohio" because he was looking for a 4-letter synonym for No
Place. (Max has never visited Ohio, either.)
- Spike named them "cube1" through "cube13" because, while he isn't wildly
imaginative, he is very smart.
- Liz named the Fire Room cube "Bob" after her husband.
- Amy named the Dark Room cube "Inky."
- Suzanne named the Boneyard cube "Camels" after her cigarettes.
Have you tried...
- flying on the magic carpet to the Outcropping?
- TINSOTing the magic carpet, then flying to the Outcropping?
- reading the carpet label during flight?
- FROTZ GRUE in a dark room (not in the Dark Room area)?
- reading the pillar?
- SNAVIG SERPENT or YOMIN SNAKE (before and after shrinking it?)
- sleeping on the green eyed rock? Petting it?
- giving fish or bread to the green eyed rock?
- showing the lava fragment to the rock?
- swallowing things when you're a grouper?
- smelling the ogre, or smelling the ogre when you're an ogre?
- trying to convince the merchant to sell you a carpet for less than 500
zorkmids?
- hitting the alarm fairy?
- YOMINing the shadow in the Castle?
- slavering while a grue?
- following the rabbit in the Meadow?
- landing the magic carpet other than In Roc Nest or Guard Tower?
- MALYONing the idol while you are on it?
- casting a spell (other than BLORPLE) at the Plain?
- following the shadow from Belwit Square?
- CASKLYing the red carpet?
- YOMINing any enchanter after he's been turned into an amphibian?
- MALYONing the cube in the hermit's hut?
- looking at a grue when you are a grue?
- attacking a grue when you are a grue?
- YOMIN GRUE?
- examining the orange smoke or smelling it?
- TINSOTing the glacier?
- smelling the lava?
- trying to sleep in the ogre's cave?
