Wow, this game really took me back.  It reminds me of playing such games
on my TRS-80.

I think this would actually be a good game for beginners, once more verbs
are implemented.  The puzzles are not very challenging and the more obscure
random ones (dance south?!) at least have hints.

This was an interesting experience.  I didn't have as much time as I'd've
liked for the contest, but here is what I've got:

Thanks,
Apollo Hogan
apollo@math.berkeley.edu

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[general]

1) Much more scenery should be implemented, in my opinion, for example the
  tree at (Dense Forest).  The description says "there is a rope hanging from
  one tree"; I type "x tree"; I shouldn't see "You can't see any such thing."
  Unfortunately, I'm running behind, so I don't have time to give a good list.

2) A nice touch, I think, would have "x self" tell you which items of clothes
  you're wearing (e.g. gloves, boots)

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[laser gun]

1) The command "shoot gun at X" where X is something you're not supposed
  to shoot gives no response at all.

2) It would be nice to have parser accept "shoot X with gun" as synonym
  for "shoot gun at X"

3) Do laser guns really go "bang!"? :-)

4) The description "A common-or-garden laser gun" seems like it should say
  "common or garden-variety"?  Or is this a British thing?  To me it sounds
  like a laser gun for household tasks and for gardening.


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(Dense Forest)

1) (Dense Forest) attempting to examine the rope gives the error
  "You shouldn't see this ..."

2) (Dense Forest) the command "cut rope then get it" doesn't work, saying
  "You can't see 'it' (the hanging rope).  Evidently rope was implemented
  with two different objects, confusing pronoun resolution.


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(Prison Cell)

1) (also Beside Lake) Very irritating "guess the verb" puzzles.  After
  playing modern IF games, it just never occurred to me to type the
  ungrammatical "go hole" or "go lake".  I tried dozens of other verbs
  (enter, climb, jump, wade, swim, step, etc.)  (Ironically, this is only
  a problem since I've gotten used to modern IF.  When I first started playing
  IF again recently, I was trying commands like "look X" and "go Y" in the
  old-school manner, but they weren't accepted.)

2) For the bars, why does only "hit bars" work, but not
  "pull/push/shake/ bars"?  The response says "You shake the window...",
  so it seems that "shake bars" should also be valid...

3) The response to, e.g. "pull bars", is "It is fixed in place" should be
  "They are ..."

4) After shaking the window and getting the bar, "look up" still gives the
  response "The bars look loose."

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(Beside Lake)

1) see 1) for (Prison Cell), regarding guess-the-verb-itis for getting gold

2) there should be more available verbs for using the board, for example,
  "lay board across ravine" or such.  I got across by accident.  I was thinking
  of jumping and typed "use board", hoping to pole-vault across...

3) "drop flint in lake" gives "That can't contain things" which is bizarre,
  as lakes seem like they should be able to contain arbitrary numbers of
  things...

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(Computer Room)

1) Typo: "You are in a room with a computer in" should be "...computer in it"

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(Large Hangar)

1) "get guard" allows you to take the guard.  (You lose, but still...)

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(Lift Control Room)

1) "Use bar" to fix the blown fuse if you push the wrong buttons seems random.
  There is absolutely no mention that the fuse is anywhere near the room!  The
  only reason I tried it is I decompiled the game and read the messages :-)