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O.K. - I've had enough requests for this, so here goes.
The remainder of this message contains spoilers for some puzzles
only seen in very late versions of mainframe Zork; specifically,
for the "Don Woods" stamp, and for the three palantirs. Hit `n'
now if you don't want to see these.

O.K - you asked for it.

The "Don Woods" stamp.
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One of the items in the game (I think it was the matchbook)
contained an advertisement for G.U.E. tech, complete with
the phrase "Send for our free brochure today!".  If you did
this (by typing "Send for brochure") the game responded:
"O.K. but you know what the mail service is like . .".
Some time later, while you were inside the house, you would
hear a knocking at the door.  If you went outside and looked
in the mailbox, you would see a brochure.  Closer examination
of the brochure would reveal a rare "Don Woods Commemorative"
stamp affixed to the brochure.  Examining the stamp gave you
the typical teletype-art rendidition, complete with the phrase
"One Lousy Point"


The Palantirs
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These showed up (in a slightly different form) in the Infocom
Zork Trilogy.  The first palantir was the white sphere found
at the top of the well; there were two more (one red, one blue).
Looking into any one of the palantirs showed you the location
of a specific one of the other palantirs.  The other palantirs
were found in two new rooms;  a dusty room (the same puzzle as
in the Trilogy, the only difference being you didn't have the
placemat so you had to use something else; I used the newspaper),
and a sooty room which was half way down the coal chute. You
could only get there by tying the rope to something big and heavy
(like the broken timber, although I heard that the coffin worked),
dropping the rope down the chute, and climbing down the rope.
The dusty room and the sooty room were connected by a very narrow
crack that you could look through, but there was no way to squeeze
through the crack (at least, none that I ever discovered).
-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
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