The Cave of Hoarding version 0.2.0
By Dee Cooke
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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. Scores are shown in brackets as +A=B, where A is points earned and B is cumulative points
earned. This is actually NOT how the scoring works, but I've done it this way for the solution,
just to give you an idea. Here's how the scoring really works...
The game does not show the score in a status bar, does not tell you when you've earned any
points and does not have a SCORE command. You are not told the score until the game is finished. The
score is calculated at the end as follows:
30 for NOT encountering troll
60 for encountering troll and Mandy gets killed
70 for encountering troll and Mandy is saved (*)
20 for returning pickaxe to explorer (*)
-5 if you've got the rucksack at the end
9 for finishing with coin in your possession
10 for finishing with coin in glovebox (*)
You should aim to only get the scores indicated by an asterisk, i.e. 70 + 20 + 10 = 100.
Got all that? Here goes...
(Do NOT examine the car until you've got the coin!)
W
N
N (Mandy tosses her cigarette stub to side of path, causing fire to start later)
E
GET COIN
W
S
S
E
X CAR (you find glovebox & controls)
X GLOVEBOX (you find pack of cough sweets)
GET SWEETS
PLACE COIN (in glovebox)
W (you automatically lock the car)
N
WAIT (you have an eerie feeling, Mandy approaches water)
WAIT (troll grabs Mandy) (+60=60)
GET MANDY (you rescue her and troll returns to lake) (+10=70)
DROP RUCKSACK (this prevents you losing 5 points at end)
N
N
N
(X EXPLORER) (he has a nasty cough)
GIVE SWEETS (you can now get his pickaxe)
GET PICKAXE
S
S
E
(X CAVE) (there's something strange about wall)
X WALL (section at back is unstable)
BREAK WALL (with pickaxe to reveal path to north)
N
GET BUCKET
N
DROP TREASURE
S
S
W (area around path is now aflame from Mandy's cigarette stub)
N
FILL BUCKET (you fill it with water, but damage torch & throw it away)
N
GIVE PICKAXE (explorer thanks you for returning it) (+20=90)
S
S
THROW WATER (you douse the flames)
S
S
E (Lo pays you and you drive off into the sunset) (+10=100)
***THE END***
