To Get To The Other Side
By Bob Reeves
For Z-code interpreters
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution. You'll need to EXAMINE lots of things for this solution to make
sense. A few optional (but significant) moves are shown in brackets, as these provide important
clues.
There are five coloured boxes. The first four boxes conceal another box, like a babushka doll.
Don't remove any of the boxes from its parent, or you'll have to put them all back again
later. Just carry the green box and all the others will move with it. Use LOOK IN <COLOUR> BOX
to see the contents of a box if you forget.
You can only open each coloured box in a specific coloured room. The first box (the green box) is
opened in the green room, but the others are opened in different coloured rooms. You can work out
the correct room by trial and error, but it's quicker to repair the TV (you have to do this to
earn a point anyway), then TURN ON TV.
Scores are shown in brackets as +A=B, where A is points earned and B is cumulative points earned.
SE
S
GET GREEN BOX (+1=1)
NE
NW
OPEN GREEN BOX (reveals TV repair kit and blue box)
FIX TV WITH KIT (+1=2)
(TURN ON TV) (reveals which room to open each box in the order that it's found)
W
OPEN BLUE BOX (+1=3) (reveals one half of note and red box)
N
E
OPEN RED BOX (reveals other half of note and yellow box)
(GET ONE NOTE)
(GET OTHER NOTE)
(X ONE NOTE)
(JOIN IT TO OTHER NOTE) (reveals your objective)
N
W
SE
OPEN YELLOW BOX (reveals id card and purple box, this is a bug as it should reveal key)
(READ CARD) (reveals how to deal with terrorist)
NE
N
E
SW
OPEN PURPLE BOX (+1=4) (reveals nothing, this is a bug, as it should reveal id card, but this has
already been revealed)
NW
W
S
GET CARD
SHOW IT TO TERRORIST
GET BOMB (+1=5)
PUT IT IN PURPLE BOX
CLOSE PURPLE BOX
CLOSE YELLOW BOX
CLOSE RED BOX
CLOSE BLUE BOX
CLOSE GREEN BOX (+1=6) (kaboom!)
S (traffic is stopped for one move, but trucker ain't happy about it)
S (+1=7)
***THE END***
