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I was able to solve almost everything in Zork except the bell, book, & candle puzzle. I only discovered the answer a couple of years later when they revealed th
by radley 8y ago
I was able to solve almost everything in Zork except the bell, book, & candle puzzle. I only discovered the answer a couple of years later when they revealed the solution in the Zork books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_books
I finished the game after that.
- jhbadger 8y agoTrue. Infocom games were largely fair, but difficult as they grew out of MIT geek culture where the level of puzzle solving was high. It's the lesser efforts from companies like Sierra that used "moon logic" puzzles that literally nobody could solve other than either by luck or by buying expensive hint books.
- philsnow 8y agoI had no idea the "bell, book, and candle" in Nethack were from Zork. I gathered that it was from _something_ (since nearly everything else in it is) but didn't know what.
- showdead 8y agoIt is much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_book,_and_candle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_book,_and_candle I believe in contemporary use it has become associated with witches, and I have seen it used as a general "occult" reference.