Woe is you! You were at a carnival and entered the Cave of the Troll because the admission was free! Little did you know that you would have to pay to get out. And you haven't a cent!
Your task is to find some money, pay the troll the toll, and return to your dull, but safe existence. Luckily, you can find some coins in the cave. Trolls, having no pockets, drop coins everywhere. So, look around and maybe you can find the 41 cents you'll need to get out.
This game was written in Turbo BASIC for IBM-compatible PCs by John H Doolittle circa 1989 and used in his 'Scientific Thinking in Psychology' classes when he was a professor of psychology at California State University, Sacramento.
It was ported to ZBasic by Eric Thornton and published by Critical Thinking Press as game 1 in the 'Adventures in Danger!' trilogy. This was released for the Apple II and Macintosh in 1992.
John continued to update the game until 1996 and released the Turbo BASIC source code in 2023.
The original game was ported to Inform 6 by Garry Francis using the PunyInform library. It was then enhanced in collaboration with the original author to become Escape from the Troll's Cave. The map and puzzles of that version are similar to the original, but the solution is quite different.
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