A huge jumble of puzzles, some of them fair and clever and many decidedly not. This was a 1999 competition entry, but it's nowhere near competition size--I count roughly 30 rooms, each with its own puzzle or set of puzzles, many of them extraordinarily complicated. There's also a hint system with lots of attitude. If you like puzzles, you may like this--but you have to really, really like puzzles.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (28 Jan 2001)

action (38.30 KB)

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autofile (9.83 KB)

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comm (51.59 KB)

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document.txt (20.44 KB)

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mess (385.58 KB)

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object (13.42 KB)

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object2 (948 bytes)

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prep (9.68 KB)

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setup.dat (6.70 KB)

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travel (1.65 KB)

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vocab (9.16 KB)

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xsnosae.exe (89.95 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: competition release)