Text Adventure Collector, version 0.1.0
By Rex Mundane
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Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution. You'll need to EXAMINE lots of things for this solution to make
sense. Your objective is to find ten games to add to your game collection. The names of the games
are derived from real games as follows:
- Copious Caverns ('ADVENT', aka 'Colossal Cave', by Will Crowther & Don
Woods)
- Rook ('The Pawn' by Sinclair, Quilley, Steers & Gordon)
- Shamus ('Sleuth' by Eric Miller)
- Softpron ('Softporn' by Chuck Benton)
- Stowaways Manual ('Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Adams & Meretzky)
- Textventure Toolkit ('Adventure Game Toolkit' by David Malmberg)
- Wishgetter ('Wishbringer' by Brian Moriarty)
- Wompus Hunt ('Wumpus' by Gregory Yob)
- Zill ('Zyll' by Marshal Linder & Scott Edwards)
- Zurk ('Zork' by Daniels, Lebling, Blank & Anderson)
You earn 1 point for each game returned to your start location in the basement library. Scores in
the solution are shown in parentheses as +A=B, where A is points earned and B is cumulative points
earned.
Some optional (but significant) commands are shown in parentheses. These can be omitted once you
know what to do.
U
GET MULTITOOL
OPEN CABINETS (you find a bronze lantern)
GET LANTERN
E
(N) (it's too dark)
LIGHT LANTERN (you can now go north)
N
NE
GET ZURK (it's "Zurk: The Underground Umpire" by Unfocom)
W
SEARCH DUNG (you find a filthy coin)
GET COIN
E
S
E
GET CUTTERS
ENTER
D
GET CROWBAR
X CRATE (you find a colorless orb)
GET ORB
U
EXIT
W
NW
S
S
S
W
GET BOLT
X BOOKKEEPER (a ledger appears)
X LEDGER (account data appears)
(X TROPHY) (wompus head appears)
(X HEAD) (wompus plaque appears)
(X PLAQUE) ("forest dweller, smells musky, fears light")
WAIT (repeat, if necessary, until clerk close eyes)
X DATA ("Guild expenses: Office supplies account #69105")
W
GET ROBE
CLEAN COIN (becomes clean coin)
E
E
S
GET SATCHEL
OPEN IT (you acquire package slip & magnetized scroll)
N
N
E
TALK CLERK (expense account holders only)
SAY 69105 (account number accepted)
GET REFILL
(X IT) (black ink)
BLACKEN ORB (it's black now)
GET PEN
GET HIGHLIGHTER
W
NE
X BIN (junk mail appears)
GET MAIL
ENTER QUEUE
WAIT (repeat until it's your turn)
GIVE SLIP (clerk takes slip and gives you a special package)
OPEN PACKAGE (you find Artie Bryanmorrie's "Wishgetter")
SW
W
BUY HINTBOOK (with coin)
HIGHLIGHT HINTBOOK (with highlighter, clues appear)
(GET TOOLKIT) (clerk laughs, "You wish")
WISH TOOLKIT ("Textventure Toolkit" by Davis Mumberg acquired)
E
(TALK DETECTIVE) ("Got any spare clues?")
GIVE HINTBOOK (reads it, takes off and drops Shamus, can now remove sewer cover)
GET SHAMUS (it's "Shamus" by Erik "Sleuth" Niller)
PRY COVER (with crowbar, adds exit down, crowbar discarded)
D
W
CUT CHAIN (with bolt cutters, bolt cutters discarded)
TURN VALVE (hot tub overhead empties out)
E
(X DOOR) (key is visible through keyhole)
SLIDE SCROLL (under door)
POKE KEY (with pen, key falls onto magnetic scroll)
GET SCROLL (key is attached)
(I) (you now have an iron key, but it's attached to the scroll)
U
E
SHRED SCROLL (scroll shredded in paper shredder, but key stays in inventory)
W
D
UNLOCK DOOR (with key, adds exit to east)
E
GET CROSSBOW
LOAD IT (with bolt)
X HORDE (Rook appears)
GET ROOK (it's "The Rook" by Magnetized Scroll)
W
U
S
W
W
X TUB (you find Softpron Adventure)
GET ADVENTURE (it's "Softpron Adventure" by In-line Systems)
E
E
S
S
KNOCK DOOR (angry wizard appears)
(TALK WIZARD) ("Seen my black orb?")
GIVE ORB (he takes it and vanishes, you can now enter hut)
ENTER
GET ZILL (it's "Zill" by Lynder & Edwyrds)
GET BOOK
(X IT) (one spell is underlined: "Teleport: ZYZZYX")
SAY ZYZZYX (you are teleported to fish room)
X MACHINE (it's a Bibblefish dispenser, button and 3 slots appear)
INSERT ROBE (into robe slot, slot closes)
INSERT SATCHEL (into satchel slot, slot closes)
INSERT MAIL (into mail slot, slot closes)
PRESS BUTTON (bibble fish appears)
GET FISH
SAY ZYZZYX (you are teleported back to hut)
EXIT
N
N
N
N (there's now an exit to east where a spaceship has landed)
E
(TALK ROBOT) (his name's Lloyd, "Spare rasp?", tool requested may be random)
GIVE MULTITOOL (he takes it and enters ship)
(TALK ANDROID) (his name's Martin, "Here, fish...")
GIVE FISH (he takes it, enters ship and ship flies away, leaving crater)
X CRATER (Stowaway's Manual appears)
GET MANUAL (it's "Galactic Stowaway's Manual" by Adam Douglass)
W
N
EXTINGUISH LANTERN (it's now dark)
SMELL (repeat, if necessary, until "a wompus is nearby")
FIRE CROSSBOW (wompus is hit and flees howling)
LIGHT LANTERN (Wompus Hunt appears)
GET HUNT (it's "Hunt the Wompus" by Grigori Yobb)
SE
E
ENTER (spellbook glows)
SAY ZYZZYX (you are teleported to hidden cave)
GET CAVERNS (it's "Copious Cavern Crusade" by Woodther and Crows)
SAY ZYZZYX (you are teleported back to cave interior)
EXIT
W
NW
S
W
D
DROP ZURK (+1=1)
DROP WISHGETTER (+1=2)
DROP TOOLKIT (+1=3)
DROP SHAMUS (+1=4)
DROP ROOK (+1=5)
DROP SOFTPRON (+1=6)
DROP ZILL (+1=7)
DROP MANUAL (+1=8)
DROP HUNT (+1=9)
DROP CAVERNS (+1=10) (your collection is complete)
***THE END***
