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How do I quit Zork?

You can abbreviate EXAMINE to X. QUIT - This lets you stop. If you want to save your position before quitting, you must use the SAVE command.
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Is there an end to Zork?

The entrance to the barrow is the end of Zork I and the beginning of Zork II. It is possible to score all 350 points in 231 moves (and complete the game completely in 236 moves).
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What are the Zork commands?

ZORK
  • Yellow: Navigation (go)
  • Grey: Information (look, inventory)
  • Green: Transfer of Possessions (take, drop)
  • Blue: Manipulate (open, turn)
  • Red: Combat (kill)
  • Pink: Specialty Command (pray, Ulysses)
  • White: Command not understood.
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How to complete Zork 1?

  1. >enter house. Kitchen. ...
  2. >open bag. Opening the brown sack reveals a lunch, and a clove of garlic.
  3. >take garlic. Taken.
  4. >go west. Living Room. ...
  5. >put coffin in case. Done.
  6. >put gold in case. Done.
  7. >put sceptre in case. Done.
  8. >open trap door. The door reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into darkness.
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What is the best weapon in Zork?

The elvish sword is a weapon you get early in all Zork games and helps a great deal in all combat. It is one of your most valuable assets as you progress.
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What happens if you break the egg in Zork?

If you drop the egg from where you got it (the nest) it will bust open, and you can take the canary. NOTE: this results in less points for the egg, and the canary as they will be "broken" "Broken" egg is only worth 2 points.
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What is the point of the game Zork?

Zork is a text-based adventure game wherein the player explores the ruins of the Great Underground Empire. The player types text commands for their character to traverse locations, solve puzzles, and collect treasure.
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What is the goal of Zork?

The goal of Zork I is to collect the Twenty Treasures of Zork and place them in the trophy case. Finding the treasures requires solving a variety of puzzles such as the navigation of two difficult mazes and some precise controls at Flood Control Dam #3.
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How many lines of code are in Zork?

I'm just trying to rationalize the madness of going through and studying over 15 thousand lines of code that comprise the game of Zork.
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What language is Zork in?

Zork was therefore written in a language called Muddle that had been devised by the research group the grad students were part of. The name was retconned as MDL (“MIT Design Language”) for more respectability, but had originally been named Muddle as a bit of grad student fun.
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How do I get into Hades Zork?

What can be an entrance to hell is under the Flathead Mountains: above it the Temple of Zork was built, and at one end of the temple a passage leads down to a small room with iron gates, through which a hot wind blows; an inscription says "Abandon every hope, all ye who enter here".
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What are the 20 treasures in Zork?

The Treasures
  • Jewel-encrusted egg.
  • Clockwork canary.
  • Beautiful painting (probably one of the lost works of Leonardo Flathead?)
  • Brass bauble.
  • Pot of gold.
  • Platinum bar.
  • Ivory torch.
  • Gold coffin.
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What is a GRU from Zork?

A grue is a fictional, predatory creature that dwells in the dark. The term was first used to identify a human-bat hybrid predator in the Dying Earth series. The term was then borrowed to introduce a similar monster in Zork, a 1977 interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom.
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Is Zork in Ready Player One?

The planet of Frobozz in "Ready Player One" is a large virtual planet that contains hundreds of individual 3D versions of the game "Zork". Wade had to complete a game of "Zork" to continue his quest for Halliday's egg, requiring a trip to Frobozz.
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What is the meaning of Zork in English?

a variety of fennel , Foeniculum vulgare dulce , with thickened stalks that resemble celery and are eaten as a vegetable , esp in S Europe.
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What verbs can you use in Zork?

In Zork, there are quite a few of these basic verbs. They include "take," "drop," "throw," "attack," "burn," "break," and others. These basic verbs are set up to do reasonable things to everv object the player will encounter in the game.
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How do you beat the troll in Zork?

There's a nasty troll here with a bloody axe, and the only way past is to kill him. So, do just that: "Kill Troll With Sword." It will most likely take more than one attempt, so keep at it, and eventually he will disappear in a cloud of black smoke.
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How big is Zork 1?

Memory: 256 MB RAM. Graphics: DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. DirectX: Version 7.0. Storage: 26 MB available space.
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What does a grue look like?

This creature looks like a fat leathery slug, its body mottled and multicolored. Its head is dominated by a huge fanged maw, and beady, disturbingly human, eyes glare out over it. Creatures of darkness and earth, grues lurk in the deepest, darkest caverns.
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Who is the protagonist in Zork?

The anonymous protagonist of Zork: Grand Inquisitor was given the name AFGNCAAP (Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person) by Dalboz of Gurth near the beginning of the adventure.
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How many items can you carry in Zork?

You can carry up to 100 pounds and eight items, but the item limit is soft -- you get some wiggle room on that.
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How many rooms does Zork have?

This varies greatly with the style of game. 'Zork I' has 110 rooms and 60 takeable objects, but several quite complex games have as few as 30 rooms (the mysteries, or 'Hitch-hikers'). The average for Version 3 games is 69 rooms, 39 takeable objects.
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What are the enemies in Zork?

Creatures
  • Grue.
  • Bloodworms.
  • Giant Slug.
  • Gnome.
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How do you open the dam in Zork?

One wall is adorned with four buttons. The first button turns on the lights in the room; the second open the floodgates of the dam, with a loud crashing sound; the third button causes some of the pipes to burst open.
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