Solution for the Memotech MTX text adventure "Life, the Universe and Everything" (1984) by Andrew Key, published by Tricom Software Ltd. Use POKE (64862),9 before loading the game to disable glitchy keyboard repeat. Comments are in round brackets. Optional commands are in square brackets but they do help with understanding more about the game:- (You start in "Dark Cave" with score 0) GET BAG (score +4=4), PUT ALL IN BAG (the guide; score +8=12), [X ALL], N (Blowbagger insults you and flies off), W, W, N, [X DEVICE] (it has a start button), PRESS BUTTON (a sofa materialises on the plains; score +8=20), S, S, SIT ON SOFA (You teleport to Lords Cricket Ground, dropping all items; score +12=32), GET BAG (score +4=36), PUT ALL IN BAG (towel & ashes; score +24=60), W, BURN STUMPS WITH MATCH (score +16=76), PUT ALL IN BAG (fake ashes; score +24=100}, N, PUT ALL IN BAG (ball & key; score +20=120), S, PUT ALL IN BAG (crisps & newspaper; score +12=132), [X ALL, READ PAPER], BLINK (you notice a spaceship; score +16=148), N, W, S, U (ship entrance), UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, S, CLOSE DOOR, LOCK DOOR WITH KEY, U, ORDER CHICKEN, EAT CHICKEN (ship zips across the galaxy; score +12=160), S, PUT ALL IN BAG (controller device; score +16=176), N, E (white room), PUT ALL IN BAG (*note1; score +20=196), [X ALL], PLUG IN CONTROLLER DEVICE (You now enter a virtual-reality reconstruction of planet Thikket which you will visit later. You start on "Hill-top"; score +20=216), S, [S, N] (Forest), E, E, S, E (in Thikket ship), W (back in white room), W, S, USE BLACK DEVICE (*note2; score +12=228), S, S, S, [E (cathedral of hate), W], KILL JAGRARAG (score +12=240), N, W, U, W, SWOOP (you collect bottle of wine; score +32=272), [X BOTTLE], E, W (Outside Party), S, GIVE BOTTLE TO DOORMAN (score +16=288) S, E (Gillian is here), [S, W, W, N, E, E] (to see all of the party), W, N, N, USE BLACK DEVICE (back in teleport room; score +8=296), N, D, WAIT (ship lands on the Thikket asteroid), UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, N, D (The robots open the Wikket gate), N (Zafod is here), [X LOCK, X PLATFORM], PUT ALL IN BAG (ashes & silver bail; score +24=320), W (Zafod and ship are here), [X SHIP], GIVE BAIL TO ZAFOD (score +16=336), E, S, U, S, CLOSE DOOR, LOCK DOOR WITH KEY, U, ORDER CHICKEN, EAT CHICKEN (Ship lands on Thikket; score +8=344), D, UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, N, D (Hill-top, everything is real this time), W, W (group of Thikketters), GIVE CRISPS TO GILLIAN (she says "Take us to your leader!"; score +20=364), U, D, E, S, S (Heart of Gold), [LOOK, X LEVER, X COMPUTER, READ GUIDE (Find SIGMA tree values)], N, N, W, D, E, E, S (forest, *note3), X TREE (1), S, X TREE (1+72=73), W, X TREE (73+76=149), E, X TREE (149+189=338), W, X TREE (338+253=591), E, X TREE (591+296=887), N, X TREE (887+301=1188), S, X TREE (1188+312=1500, the final result), N, N (back on hill-top), W, W, U, U, W, [S, X SHIP, N] (to see fake ship exhibit), N (Hectar invites you to see him), S, E, E (Airlock), TOUCH PANEL (*note4; score +8=372), W (after reading Hectar’s exposition), W, D, E, S, S (back in Heart of Gold), [READ GUIDE], PROGRAM COMPUTER, B (1500 - the number obtained from the forest maze; score +8=380), PULL LEVER (ship lands on Earth; score +20=400), N, D, W, KILL ROBOT (score +20=420), E, U, S, PULL LEVER (Prat joins the ship; score +20=440), WAIT (*note5), [WAIT], [ASK PRAT FOR ANSWER] (42 of course), ASK PRAT FOR QUESTION (*note6; score +24=464; YOU HAVE WON !!!) *note1 - If there are also immovable items in the room, then PUT ALL IN BAG will attempt to pick them up and fail.This can be avoided if desired by picking the required item up directly e.g. PUT BLACK DEVICE IN BAG, but the warnings are of no consequence and it is quicker to type ALL in most cases. *note2 - You will randomly teleport to either "Underground" or "Outside Party". You need to get to "Underground" at this stage. If you end up at "Outside Party", then keep trying "USE BLACK DEVICE" until eventually you end up at "Underground". Also in that case, you will score 8 points for teleporting back from "Outside Party" to the white room now. Otherwise you will pick up the 8 points later in the walkthrough. *note3 - You need to examine a tree in every location within the forest maze to reveal a number on each one. Adding all numbers together gives the result 1500, which is needed to plot a course on the ship later. The clue to do this is given by "READ GUIDE" while on the Heart of Gold ship. *note4 - You now enter the vacuum of outer space and provided Hectar is present, you will be protected for a small random number of turns. You should leave as soon as possible (preferably after one turn). It is occasionally possible to die immediately on entering outer space, even if Hectar is present. I am unsure if this is a bug or intentional random behaviour. In that case, the game has to be restarted again from the beginning. *note5 - although it is stated on the previous turn that Prat has arrived, in fact attempting to interact with him results in "Prat isn’t here" until one turn later. Also waiting one further turn again reveals the clue about having to ask Prat something. *note6 - This solution scores 464 out of a possible 500 points. I have yet to find the missing 36 points - answers on a post card please. :) benkid77 - 20 October 2023