🚀 go-pugleaf

	As long as everyone else is boasting about high scores, I
just couldn't resist:

 1 205858    Aslan-C escaped the dungeon [max level 26].             103 [103]

	I picked up an incredible suit of armor (+3 chain mail, +3 gloves,
+2 shield, +0 helmet) from a ghost on level 16, not to mention a +5 long
sword (which became +6 by accident later on, but fortunately didn't
disappear).  My only really scary moment was when a nymph stole my
sword deeper down, and I was left weaponless...fortunately, there was
strength in my bare hands yet.

	Still, it was an ill-deserved and unwanted ball and chain that
saved my life.  While my sword was missing I ran into two demons and a
Dragon, and led them a merry chase around a large room.  Throwing the
ball beats potions of speed by a long shot.

	Too bad our version 1.0 doesn't say "total winner" and all
that....
-- 
"...sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast."

David Albert
ihnp4!ut-sally!harvard!albert (albert@harvard.ARPA)

> 	I picked up an incredible suit of armor (+3 chain mail, +3 gloves,
> +2 shield, +0 helmet) from a ghost on level 16, not to mention a +5 long
> sword (which became +6 by accident later on, but fortunately didn't
> disappear).

Someone at my site asked how a ghost could have died with all these
beautiful things, and since it happened to have been MY ghost from
a previous game, I know:

	WIELDING A COCKATRICE IS VERY DANGEROUS!!

I take back an earlier comment about wishing for one -- don't ever
pick the darn things up!  Of all the horrible things that can happen
to a wizard wearing all that armor and wielding a +5 long sword,
falling in a pit and touching a cockatrice in the fall has got to
be the worst.
-- 
"...sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast."

David Albert
ihnp4!ut-sally!harvard!albert (albert@harvard.ARPA)

> ...
> 
> Number Points  Name                                                    Hp [max]
>   1 120948    cliff-F escaped the dungeon [max level 27].             101 [101]
> 
> ... Hooray!  Now I can (clean up the screen, have a beer and) finish
> my Master's degree!
> 
> 	--Cliff [Matthews]
> 	{purdue, cmcl2, ihnp4}!lanl!unmvax!cliff
>

How can you quit when you haven't beaten hack with _all_ the characters??

Still working on Tourist, (won with Caveman!)
Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws

> I find looking through the sources of a game like hack is tantamount to
> cheating, and spoils the game for oneself.

So don't do it.  Where do you draw the line?  Do you ever discuss the game
with other people?  Have they seen the source?  Have you or they played as
the WIZARD?  Ever read SPOILERs?  The game is still interesting even though
I have read the source.

> I just can't hack :-) those americans.. mad as leprechauns they all are...
> 
> And whoever WANTED a tip on a game, that would be like asking a bystander to
> suggest a chess move...

Speak for yourself.  There are many people that want tips.

> And, PLEASE DON'T post REAL TIPS on the game, stick to bugs and fixes.

I guess you don't understand the significance of SPOILER in the subject line.
If you don't want the tips, don't read the SPOILERs.

	--Cliff [Matthews]
	{purdue, cmcl2, ihnp4}!lanl!unmvax!cliff
	{csu-cs, pur-ee, convex, gatech, ucbvax}!unmvax!cliff
	4744 Trumbull S.E. - Albuquerque  NM  87108 - (505) 265-9143

Perhaps the reason that hack doesn't get excited when you exit with
the amulet and score 200,000 or so, is that:

1. You don't have to get to the maze to get a real amulet.

2. You get much better scores if you have several amulets (each doubles
your score).

My wife and I have scored over 30 million in games where we exited with
7 and 8 amulets.  Where did all those amulets come from?  Ghosts.

Where did all those ghosts come from?  Well, now...

-- Toby Robison
princeton!robison

In article <1052@princeton.UUCP> robison@princeton.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) writes:
>My wife and I have scored over 30 million in games where we exited with
>7 and 8 amulets.  Where did all those amulets come from?  Ghosts.

You can also get an amulet by using a wand of wishing.  I did this once on
the first level.  But then, you don't want to stop there ... so I went on.
The amulet cuts down on your need for food, and I ended up choking on a
clove of garlic on about the 8th level.  I later got the amulet with another
character from the ghost ...

					Alien

I find looking through the sources of a game like hack is tantamount to
cheating, and spoils the game for oneself.

Personally, I don't spend more than the occasional hour ( 2 ? ) per week on
it, and some weeks nothing at all. Looking through the sources would kill
all my interest.

I've never been below level 15, never had above 2000 points, and I still
find it a mildly amusing game for waiting-for-compiles-deadnesses.


I just can't hack :-) those americans.. mad as leprechauns they all are...

And whoever WANTED a tip on a game, that would be like asking a bystander to
suggest a chess move...

And, PLEASE DON'T post REAL TIPS on the game, stick to bugs and fixes.

Sorry for posting, this was another arduous day, flames via mail, please..
-- 
Hans Albertsson, USENET/uucp: {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans
Real World:  TeleLOGIC AB, Box 1001, S-14901 Nynashamn,SWEDEN

> You can also get an amulet by using a wand of wishing.  I did this once on

Yes, but you'll only get a cheap plastic imitation... (try to identify it,
or leave the dungeon with it).

							Thomas.

In article <227@gcc-bill.ARPA> alien@gcc-bill.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
>In article <1052@princeton.UUCP> robison@princeton.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) writes:
>>My wife and I have scored over 30 million in games where we exited with
>>7 and 8 amulets.  Where did all those amulets come from?  Ghosts.
>
>You can also get an amulet by using a wand of wishing.  I did this once on
>the first level.  But then, you don't want to stop there ... so I went on.
>The amulet cuts down on your need for food, and I ended up choking on a
>clove of garlic on about the 8th level.  I later got the amulet with another
>character from the ghost ...
>
>					Alien


Nonsens! 
If you get an amulet by using a wand of wishing, you will find out
(as soon as you identify it with a scroll of identify), that it is a cheap
plastic imitation(!) with a total worth of 2 points instead of 5000.
The amulet (and certainly not the imitation of the amulet) does not cut
down on your need for food.

-- 

			Michiel Huisjes.
			{seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!ark!huisjes