Minor spoilers for a game released in 1984.... I played the Hitchhiker's game a couple decades ago and I remember getting stuck at the end because I had droppe

Minor spoilers for a game released in 1984.... I played the Hitchhiker's game a couple decades ago and I remember getting stuck at the end because I had dropped something down a grate. Turns out, at least according to this walkthrough I found, that the game is programmed to randomly require an item but if you are missing one it will require whatever item you don't have...