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There are many easy ways to "win" at hack. One of the simplest
is to play as a W (wizard). Simply zap the wands you receive
at the start of your game. Unless one of them is a wand of wishing,
kill the game and try again until you get one. When you get one,
wish for some heavy duty stuff like +7 Plate Mail, a +3 crysknife,
and a ring of poison resistance (or whatever). Sometimes you get one
right away, sometimes it takes 50 or more attempts. Kinda like a
poor man's Wizard mode!
				Disaster
				
		(It's also WAY to easy to rip-off Shopkeepers!)
		
		

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> From: t2@fluke.UUCP (Tom Thompson)
> I am fairly new to Hack and the net so please excuse any questions that
> may have been asked before.
> 
> 1. Is there any advantage to naming your dog?
> 
> 2. Are blank scrolls good for anything?
> 
> 3. What does the scroll 'You feel as if someone is helping you' do?
> 
> 4. What is the whistle used for?
> 
> Also if anyone has a list of the scrolls and what they do, please post
> them, it would be a big help.
> 
> Thanks

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 1) naming your dog is mostly just for fun.  If another dog appears on  the 
scene, it can help you keep track of him, especially since you can C) an unknown
dog, find out whether it's yours, and abort the command.  Also, your dog keeps 
his name If you become a ghost, so when you see a named dog, or any named 
animal, you are on a ghost level.

 2) I have never found a use for them, but I've also never managed to hit one 
with an identify scroll.   I usually assume they are blank, and useless.

 3) The scroll that makes you feel like someone is helping you is one of the 
most important items in the game--the remove curse scroll.  This will cancel
stickeycurses which you are under, and detatch the scroll of punishment's ball
and chain.  (A stickeycurse is when you put something on, or wield it, and it
won't come off.)
 4) There are two kinds of whistles.  The kind that makes a "high" sound is
just a whistle.  If your dog is in hearing range, he will head towards you and
follow you for a while. (This may depend on his loyalty, which is built up by
feeding him.)  The kind that makes a "strange" noise will teleport your dog to 
you.  If there are monsters in all adjacent squares, he will appear in a next-
to adjacent square and fight his way to you.

 5) scrolls:  I am working on a bunch of hints files, but I am not sure I am
quite ready to send them out yet.  Maybe soon.

		David Harmon, c/o swa@hu-talcott.ARPA

ps -- please post any queries/replies to harmon%h-sc4@harvard.ARPA
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Posted from  jon1@iham1.UUCP (carbaugh)
> There are many easy ways to "win" at hack. One of the simplest
> is to play as a W (wizard). Simply zap the wands you receive
> at the start of your game. Unless one of them is a wand of wishing,
> kill the game and try again until you get one.

Yes, that tactic was in use here for quite a while before I (hack maintainer)
found out.  I felt that such tactics severely imbalanced the game.  Come on,
if this was a video game in some amusement parlor somewhere where you had to
pay a quarter for three lives, would you use such tactics?  Well, I managed
to fix the game so that it wouldn't give you any powerful items (such as
wands of wishing) on your initial inventory.  It's still possible to find one
on level 1, but you just never started with one.  Besides, it's very
unrealistic.  Where would a wimpy first level magician get a wand of wishing
from?
				robert
-- 
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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