50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits as Lankly Lockers
walkthrough by Andrew Schultz
This was written for ShuffleComp's original iteration in 2014. It's a spinoff of Aisle
based on Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. 30 or so seem quite easy for text
adventurers. You may wind up getting them in clumps. Some of the verbs feel like a reach, but
they're fun for the most part. I had to disassemble for the last few.
Also, 50SJ doesn't give you a list of what you went through. So it is tough to keep track of.
That said, I di recommend hitting the up arrow to go through the rejects after you find something. I
think the best jokes are there.
To ameliorate you missing something in the walkthrough, I will go in semi-logical order, from what
people are most likely to try, to least. At each checkpoint, make sure your score is what I say it
is.
First, what every responsible adventurer should do. 3/50.
>LOOK
(Note: L and X SAM give the same point-scoring.)
>X ME
>I
Hold the space bar down here.
Very common verbs that just miss the cut as super-critical. 3s+2=5/50.
>GIVE
>WAIT
Now, directions. 5+12=17/50.
>N
>S
>E
>W
>SW
>SE
>NW
>NE
>U
>D
>IN
>OUT
Now, popular meta-commands Inform automatically implements. 17+6=23/50.
>VERSION
>SAVE
>RESTART
>BRIEF
>SUPERBRIEF
>QUIT
Funny bit of hacking, that, above. Not advised for regular games.
Ones the user should implement. (Okay, the last is, by default, but...) 23+4=27/50.
>ABOUT
>CREDITS
>HINT
>SCORE
Verbs built into I7 that sometimes give annoying default responses. 27+6=33/50.
>KISS
>KILL
(Attack Sam works too)
>SING
>YES
>NO
>WAKE
JUMP and WAVE, other nuisance verbs Inform implements, don't work. Neither does profanity. But
then again, lots of other games did profanity.
Love-based verbs, sort of. 33+11=44/50.
>TOUCH ME
>SAIL
>STRIP
>LAUGH
>FORGET
>CHEAT
>CRY
>DANCE
>DIE
>DISAPPEAR
>DREAM
Inside jokes for classic text adventure fans. 44+3=47/50.
>XYZZY
>PLUGH
>GRUE
(The last one was particularly tricky!)
The ones I had trouble with:
>50 SHADES OF JILTING
(This is clued from typing ZORK, but you may also type it by accident or just saying "heck,
maybe this works.")
Probably known from the song title.
>LEAVE
(EXIT is not a synonym.)
(Note here if you want to see any death statement, type them in now.)
And finally, this is an odd one:
>WAYLAY
This looks like a trivial bug where the author forgot or didn't know to run the turn or
shutdown rules, but you need to type a valid command to fully see the end. Any will do.
>Z
