TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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@error_bot look
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Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 14
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Front Porch
This is the enclosed front porch of your home. Your front garden lies to
the south, and you can reenter your home to the north.> >
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Front of House Score: 10 Moves: 15
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Front of House
You can enter your home to the north. A path leads around it to the
northeast and northwest, and a country lane is visible to the south. All
that lies between your home and the huge yellow bulldozer bearing down on
it is a few yards of mud.
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the
bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch. He looks startled to see
you emerge, and yells at you to get out of the way.The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
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@error_bot get out of the way
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I don't know the word "way".
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@error_bot move away
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That sentence isn't one I recognise.
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Front of House Score: 10 Moves: 16
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You can't go that way.The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
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@error_bot talk to bulldozer
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You can't talk to a bulldozer!
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The bulldozer, which you may have noticed outside, just pushed your home
down on top of you.\*\*\*\* You have died \*\*\*\*
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We are about to give you your score. Put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses
> now. (Hit RETURN or ENTER when ready.) >
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@error_bot restart
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Your score is 10 of a possible 400, in 16 turns.
Would you like to start over, restore a saved position, get hints or end
this session of the game?
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, HINTS or QUIT):
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@error_bot restart
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Darkness Score: 0 Moves: 0
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Release 31 / Serial number 871119 / Interpreter 1 Version F
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You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least
it would be if you could see it which you can't.It is pitch black.
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@error_bot turn on the light
get out of bed
take gown
open pocket
take analgesic
take all
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Bedroom, in the bed Score: 0 Moves: 1
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life.
The light is now on.Bedroom, in the bed
The bedroom is a mess.
It is a small bedroom with a faded carpet and old wallpaper. There is a
washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window
with the curtains drawn. Near the exit leading south is a phone.
There is a flathead screwdriver here. (outside the bed)
There is a toothbrush here. (outside the bed)> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 2
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Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and
sways a little.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 3
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Luckily, this is large enough for you to get hold of. You notice something
in the pocket.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 4
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It's hard to open or close the pocket unless you're wearing the gown.> > You can't see any analgesic here!
> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 5
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flathead screwdriver: It dances by you like a thing possessed.
toothbrush: It dances by you like a thing possessed.
telephone: You lunge for it, but the room spins nauseatingly away. The
floor gives you a light tap on the forehead.> >
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@error_bot wear gown
open pocket
take analgesic
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Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 6
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You are now wearing your gown.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 7
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Opening your gown reveals a buffered analgesic, pocket fluff, and a thing
your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is.> > Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 8
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You swallow the tablet. After a few seconds the room begins to calm down
and behave in an orderly manner. Your terrible headache goes.> >
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Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 9
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You can't go that way.> >
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Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 10
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You can't go that way.> >
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@error_bot w
s
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Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 11
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You can't go that way.> > Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 12
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You make your way down to the front porch.Front Porch
This is the enclosed front porch of your home. Your front garden lies to
the south, and you can reenter your home to the north.
On the doormat is a pile of junk mail.> >
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@error_bot take mail
read mail
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Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 13
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You gather up the pile of mail.> > Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 14
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There are many pieces of mail. Most are from some computer company called
Infocom which wants you to buy their games. Hidden underneath is an
official letter from the local council, dated some two years ago and
inexplicably not delivered till now, explaining that a demolition order has
been served on your home. The date of demolition is today's date.> >
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@error_bot e
w
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Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 15
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You can't go that way.> > Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 16
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You can't go that way.> >
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Front of House Score: 10 Moves: 17
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Front of House
You can enter your home to the north. A path leads around it to the
northeast and northwest, and a country lane is visible to the south. All
that lies between your home and the huge yellow bulldozer bearing down on
it is a few yards of mud.
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the
bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch. He looks startled to see
you emerge, and yells at you to get out of the way.The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
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@error_bot talk to mr prosser
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Hmmm ... Mr. Prosser looks at you expectantly, as if you seemed to be about
to talk.> >
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@error_bot yell at mr prosser
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Front of House Score: 10 Moves: 18
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You begin to get a sore throat.The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
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Country Lane
The road runs from your home, to the north, toward the village Pub, to the
west.
The bulldozer piles into the side of your home.Your home collapses in a cloud of dust, and a stray flying brick hits you
squarely on the back of the head. You try to think of some suitable last
words, but what with the confusion of the moment and the spinning of your
head, you are unable to compose anything pithy and expire in silence.> >
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@error_bot restart
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You keep out of this, you're dead. An ambulance arrives.
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@error_bot look
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You keep out of this, you're dead and should be concentrating on developing
a good firm rigor mortis. You are put in the ambulance, which drives away.> >
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@error_bot develop rigor mortis
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For a dead person you are talking too much. As the ambulance reaches the
mortuary a fleet of Vogon Constructor ships unexpectedly arrives and
demolishes the Earth to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.We are about to give you your score. Put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses
> now. (Hit RETURN or ENTER when ready.) >
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@error_bot restart
restart
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Your score is 10 of a possible 400, in 18 turns.
Would you like to start over, restore a saved position, get hints or end
this session of the game?
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, HINTS or QUIT):
> > Darkness Score: 0 Moves: 0THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Release 31 / Serial number 871119 / Interpreter 1 Version F
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You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least
it would be if you could see it which you can't.It is pitch black.
> >
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Note this game is extremely tight on time, especially in the opening sequence. While there is more than one sequence of commands that will get you off planet in a state that will let you win the game, it may not be more than a few dozen permutations.
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@PleegWat we need a bloody towel. Where the hell is that bloody towel.