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> Question:  If you are fourtunate enough to find the amulet in the corner of
> the maze, is there any way to get it??????

Would polymorphing the rock have helped?

-- Chuck Simmons

> I was playing hack(1.0.1) the other day, and for the first time,
> I reached the maze, and found the amulet.  But, it was in the lower left
> hand corner.  I used the wand of digging to kill the walls on every side,
> but, of course, the outside.  I found no way to budge the rock.
> 
> Question:  If you are fourtunate enough to find the amulet in the corner of
> the maze, is there any way to get it??????
> 
> PS:	I don't believe that this bug exists in 1.0.2.
> 
> 				Merry Christmas,
> 						Lewis.
> -- 

If you mean the thing was under a rock like :
		   -
                  `-
                 ---

Then try a wand of striking or a wand of teleport to get rid of the
rock (and amulet?). Also, a wand of polymorph to get change the rock
to a gem could be used (if you want to try it in light of the fact
that the amulet may be changed also).

If you mean you could get to it at all, I wouldn't know.

					Jim Gath
					..ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrjimg

> I was playing hack(1.0.1) the other day, and for the first time,
> I reached the maze, and found the amulet.  But, it was in the lower left
> hand corner.  I used the wand of digging to kill the walls on every side,
> but, of course, the outside.  I found no way to budge the rock.
> 
> Question:  If you are fourtunate enough to find the amulet in the corner of
> the maze, is there any way to get it??????
> 
> PS:	I don't believe that this bug exists in 1.0.2.
> 
> 				Merry Christmas,
> 						Lewis.
> -- 

This may or not help, but one time when I was trying to get a Nymph to
steal some cursed armour off of me, this happened:
I dropped everything except the cursed armour, started walking toward
the nymph, but teleported before I got there(via leppie).  On my way
back towards the nymph and my stuff, I encountered a cockatrice.
Not wanting to fight it with my bare hands, I ran.  Unfortunately,
the passage was blocked by a boulder.  I thought I was dead, but in
my haste, I hit to many 'l' keys and got this message:
"You try to move the boulder, but in vain --more--"
"You manage to squeeze though an opening."  (something like that)

Anyway, if this was not just some fluke, then it could be used to 
get the amulet.  I haven't experimented with this at all, so I
don't know if you can pick anything up while between the rock and
the wall.

--Kevin Chu
..ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020

/ex

> I was playing hack(1.0.1) the other day, and for the first time,
> I reached the maze, and found the amulet.  But, it was in the lower left
> hand corner.  I used the wand of digging to kill the walls on every side,
> but, of course, the outside.  I found no way to budge the rock.
> 
> Question:  If you are fourtunate enough to find the amulet in the corner of
> the maze, is there any way to get it??????

Wish for a pick-axe and apply it to the boulder, turning it into an
easily moved pile of rocks.

By the way, here's a property of pick-axes that might either be a bug
or a feature.  If you stand on Elbereth, wield a pick-axe, and hit a
monster, the monster attacks.  But if you stand on Elbereth and apply
the pick-axe to the monster, you (seem to) do just as much damage to
the monster, but it doesn't attack.  You can stand on Elbereth all day
and wipe out all comers without taking a single hit.

[This is in version 1.0.2.]

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

More spoilers gleaned from the hack source code.

If you push a boulder into a pit trap, both the boulder and the trap
disappear:

	You push the rock into a pit!--more--
	It completely fills the pit!

If you push a boulder into a pool, then both the pool and the boulder
disappear:

	You push the rock into the water.--more--
	Now you can cross the water!

If you push a boulder into a teleport trap, it disappears (the boulder
is actually destroyed, not teleported):

	You push the rock and suddenly it disappears!

If you try to push on a boulder but it cannot be moved, and you are not
carrying too much, then "you can squeeze yourself into a small
opening."  You will then occupy the same position as the boulder, and
you can pick up anything that is there (except the boulder, it's always
too heavy).  Carrying too much is defined in terms of your carrying
capacity and the weight that you are hauling around.

Your carrying capacity is your strength plus your experience level,
times 5.  If your strength is "18/nn", then it counts as 20.  Your
carrying capacity cannot be greater than 120.  Also, if your left leg
is wounded (by a xan), you lose 10 capacity points, and if your right
leg is wounded you lose 10 points.

The weight you are carrying is just the sum of the weight of every
object in your inventory, plus .001 for each gold piece.

If you are carrying nothing (drop all gold, weapons, armor, etc), or if
your carrying capacity minus your hauled weight is 90 or greater, then
you can squeeze into that small opening and pick up anything that lies
beneath the boulder.

Here's another bit of strategem, gleaned from the same source file: you
will escape a beartrap five times more quickly if you try to move
diagonally than if you try to move horizontally or vertically.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]