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Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:21 pm
by Gunness
Right you are :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

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The first clue might work better for a game called A Mind Forever Wandering, and the infinity symbol doesn't exactly mean the same as "forever" - but close enough :)

(Incidentally this is one of the very few Infocom titles I've never gotten around to playing)

Anyway, Eriorg, the ball is yours!

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:57 pm
by Alex
And we have another winner!!!! Congratulations Eriorg!!

I wasn't even close to guessing that title :), but now at last all the clues make sense.

We now have a shared first place:

Adventure Challenge Leaderboard :
1. Gunness - 1 point
1. Eriorg - 1 point

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:27 pm
by Eriorg
Game #3
Clue 1
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Good luck!

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:32 pm
by Alex
The weirdstone ?

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:44 pm
by Eriorg
Alex wrote:The weirdstone ?
No.

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:55 pm
by Gunness
The Puppet-Man?

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:42 pm
by Eriorg
Gunness wrote:The Puppet-Man?
No.

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 6:25 pm
by Gunness
As a big Muppet fan, I can only say that I'm totally lost here ;)

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 6:54 pm
by Alex
And there is another huge muppet fan completely baffled over here :D.
Is it Funfear ?

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:06 pm
by Eriorg
Alex wrote:And there is another huge muppet fan completely baffled over here :D.
Is it Funfear ?
No, it's not Funfear.

And yes, I know my clue was rather obscure :) . Here's another one:

Game #3
Clue 2

The Clue 1 is actually a little rebus: each picture should suggest one (and only one) word, and if you combine these two words (or rather the sound of these words), you should get a new word which is the solution.

(Ah, and also: there are no muppets in the game, or at least, I'd be extremely surprised if there were any!)

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:20 pm
by Eriorg
(A bit of pointless trivia about muppets and text adventures, with nothing to do with the challenge: I read in a blog post that the mainframe version of Stuga had muppets in it.)

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:34 am
by Alastair
Eriorg wrote:The Clue 1 is actually a little rebus: each picture should suggest one (and only one) word, and if you combine these two words (or rather the sound of these words), you should get a new word which is the solution.
After the original clue I thought it might be Animal Land Murder Case, now I'm stumped.

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:02 am
by Eriorg
Alastair wrote:After the original clue I thought it might be Animal Land Murder Case, now I'm stumped.
It's not Animal Land Murder Case. (But it was a good idea! It would have fitted Clue 1 very nicely.)

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:49 am
by Gunness
Ahhhh.... all you need is a morning shower and the (good?) ideas will appear :)
Shogun

Re: Adventure Challenge

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:31 pm
by Eriorg
Gunness wrote:Shogun
YEEESSSSS! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Congratulations, you win!

The first picture from the rebus was The Muppet Show. The second picture was a gun. So the rebus was "Show" + "gun" -> "Shogun". A rather forgettable text adventure, even if it was published by Infocom and authored by Dave Lebling.

(There is no particular reason why I chose The Muppet Show rather than any other show. It was just the first idea I had when I had to choose a picture to illustrate the word "show".)

It's your turn now, Gunness! :D
Gunness wrote:Ahhhh.... all you need is a morning shower and the (good?) ideas will appear :)
I also had the idea of "A Mind Forever Voyaging" when I was away from my computer, taking a walk. Not a bad strategy, apparently.


Adventure Challenge Leaderboard :
1. Gunness - 2 points
2. Eriorg - 1 point