EXPLOITS IN A WHEELIE-BIN
by Scott Denyer
Delbert the Hamster Software
1992
This is a good, enjoyable game, as whimsical as most of the other games
produced by this software company. There are two glitches (see hints). The
game recognizes more than a two-word parser.
Despite its low-key nature, several of the puzzles are tricky to solve.
Hints:
Type HELP for verbs and suggested phrases.
You need to get up in the tree. You need an object to get down. But don’t be
in a great hurry to leave. Two objects are to be found there.
You cannot get past the troll, so you need to find another way.
You cannot push the button at the revolving wall. The wall apparently has two
sides. PUSH RIGHT.
How to get past the priest? Wear something that he may mistake you for a
religious figure (yes, this is a stretch here). Here also, don’t be too quick
to leave the altar area as there are two objects to find here. Read the
descriptions carefully. Use lung power.
At the hut, there is a window (which you don’t really know is there- a
glitch). Of course, you already have found something to use at the window of
the hut, haven’t you?
Don’t eat the doughnut. It has jam inside it, red jam. Have you been anywhere
where something red usually would be useful? And on what part of your anatomy
would it be useful to get the bull to help you up into the tree? You also
need for it not to hurt you. Yes, you brought the needed object with you. How
to get the jam onto that part of your anatomy? Make the jam come out. And
then put it
there in the most direct way.
There is one red herring – the banana peel. Actually it is not really a red
herring, since it is useful, but don’t take it.
At the thespians, keep trying. You get a hint if you EXAMINE RICHARD.
You can enter the wise woman’s cave if you are hurt.
You need to get the bird to help you before you release it. Show it with what
you can summon it.
Timmy will give you something if you get his rat back for him. Rats like
seeds, but you only have one. What can you do to make more? But before you do
that, you need to do something to get to see the wise woman.
Use the comb as a verb at the beach.
Solution:
You are Ruprect, pulled into the wheelie-bin by a green hand into a field.
INVENTORY (you have your trousers, shirt, shoes, and a magazine), EXAMINE
MAGAZINE, READ MAGAZINE, E (an old woman walks by and says you have been
chosen by the elders to help rid the land of an unspeakable evil. You ask her
and she says Tony the Suspiciously Big holds the secret. He must be
destroyed), SE, S, LISTEN, SEARCH GRASS, EXAMINE FOOTBALL, TAKE FOOTBALL,
KICK FOOTBALL (something is thrown over the fence), TAKE NINTENDO, EXAMINE
NINTENDO, N, N (you see a tree and a bull that is watching you), EXAMINE TREE
(you can climb it with the right equipment), S, S (you see a gate), LOOK
BEHIND GATE, TAKE CONE, N, SE, EXAMINE MAN, EXAMINE BENCH (don’t come near
him or his lunch), PLAY NINTENDO (the man wants it), GIVE NINTENDO (the man
runs off).
SEARCH BENCH, TAKE DOUGHNUT, EXAMINE DOUGHNUT (jam), SQUEEZE DOUGHNUT (it
squirts over the bench), SIT (your bum is covered in red jam), NW, NW, N (by
a collapsed bridge), EXAMINE HUT (closed), EXAMINE WINDOW (closed), OPEN
WINDOW, WEDGE CONE, UP, EXAMINE WARDROBE (there is a gap underneath), LOOK
UNDER WARDROBE, REACH UNDER WARDROBE, TAKE UMBRELLA, EXAMINE UMBRELLA
(closed), UP, S, SE, SE (the troll says he wants money), SAY TROLL, W, NW, N,
PUT MAGAZINE DOWN TROUSERS, BEND OVER (you fly up the tree), SEARCH BRANCHES,
EXAMINE NEST, TAKE NEST, WEAR NEST, SEARCH TWIGS (you get a pencil), OPEN
UMBRELLA, JUMP EAST, SE, E.
EXAMINE THESPIANS, SAY RICHARD (my kingdom for a horse), SHOUT (three times;
your voice becomes hoarse and you are given a sword), EXAMINE SWORD (metal),
W, S, EXAMINE STATUE (Tony the Suspicious Big – one of his eyes are missing
and there is a hole in the backside), W (you see a well and a bucket on a
rope), CUT ROPE, TAKE BUCKET, EXAMINE BUCKET (no water), E, SEARCH FLOOR,
TAKE MARBLE, EXAMINE MARBLE, INSERT MARBLE (the mouth opens), INSERT HAND IN
MOUTH (you have a whistle), E, E (the priest pokes his head out, sees the
nest, mistakes it for a crown of thorns, and collapses on the floor), E,
EXAMINE ALTAR, LOOK BEHIND ALTAR, TAKE LIGHTER, BLOW DUST (you see a paper),
TAKE PAPER, EXAMINE PAPER (blank), E, EXAMINE BASIN, SEARCH BASIN, TAKE COMB,
EXAMINE WALL (there is a button that says “revolving wall”).
PUSH BUTTON (nothing happens), PUSH RIGHT (there is a secret room to the
east), E (you see a shrine and a coffin), OPEN COFFIN, TAKE SPADE, W, W, W,
W, N, NW, N, E (you slip on a banana peel), HIDE (a fisherman slips on the
banana skin, drops his net and rushes off), TAKE NET, W, S, SE, S, DOWN,
DOWN, FILL BUCKET, E, CATCH FISH, TAKE FISH, W, UP, ENTER CAVE (the cave is
inhabited by a wise woman; you may only enter if you need to), UP, N, NW, N,
E, E, N, E (you see Timmy), EXAMINE TIMMY, TALK TO TIMMY (he’s lost his rat
down one of the holes), EXAMINE HOLE (you see eyes), TALK TO TIMMY (you get a
seed), W, N, EXAMINE RUNES, COPY RUNES, EXAMINE PAPER, N (you can’t), EXAMINE
OAK (has a hole in it and some runes), S, E, INSERT HAND (try something
else), INSERT FOOT (your big toe gets bitten), PLANT SEED, POUR WATER ON
SEED, WAIT (a sunflower grows).
SHAKE SUNFLOWER (hundreds of seeds fall out; Scabies heads straight for them;
Tim gives you a strange substance), INVENTORY (you have goo), EXAMINE GOO
(quick-drying; add water, wait to harden, and add more water to re-set when
hard), W, S, W, W, S, SE, S, DOWN, SHOW TOE (the gorilla says there are two
things you should know: one, that she is a woman, and two, that she is wise;
you are ushered in; you see a mass), EXAMINE MASS (snoring), WAKE MASS, SHAKE
MASS, SHOW TOE (she threatens to cut it off), SHOW PAPER (the woman says they
tell of a strange force that can only be quenched with the amulet of
Zychtrych which is said to be hidden in these parts), SAY WOMAN, W, DOWN,
FILL BUCKET, COMB SAND, TAKE STICK, UP, UP, INSERT STICK IN BACKSIDE, LIGHT
STICK, DOWN (the statue’s head goes flying past you), UP, TAKE STICK, INSERT
HAND (you get an amulet), EXAMINE AMULET, N, NW, N, E, E, N, N.
EXAMINE OAK (you see a hole), PUT AMULET IN HOLE (you feel a strange
vibration, then quiet), N, CLIMB TREE (you can see the boat in the middle of
the lake), LIGHT STICK, THROW STICK (the boat floats to the far side), DOWN,
S, S, S, W, W, NW, N, N (a bird attacks you and you retreat), DIG HOLE, POUR
GOO, POUR WATER IN HOLE, CALL BIRD (he flies at you), DUCK (the bird lands in
the goo), TALK TO BIRD (he’ll help you if you get him out), S, SE, S, SE, S,
DOWN, DOWN, FILL BUCKET, UP, UP, N, NW, N, NW, N, SHOW WHISTLE (the bird
agrees to come when you blow the whistle), POUR WATER ON GOO (the bird flies
up the tree), N, E (you see a boat at the shore), BOARD BOAT (a shark tries
to bite your leg), THROW FISH (the shark says not to let this happen again),
BOARD BOAT (the boat heads for the waterfall), BLOW WHISTLE (the bird carries
you over the waterfall as the boat shatters). You are finished.
Terri Sheehan
2010-09-18
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