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Subject: Re: An embarrassment of riches?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 07:22:50 +0000
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> You obviously weren't as stupid as I was! It was only after completing
> Spellbreaker that someone pointed out to me you could write on the
> cubes with the burin.

I'm glad someone else fell to that little trap.  I just juggled cubes
through the gold box until I knew I had the right one in my hands. 
Amazing how some of the really difficult puzzles in games can come to you
right away, and the most elementary crap escapes you.

Oh, in regards to the thread, keep in mind that ordinary fiction is
usually filled with puzzles, it's just that we're reduced to the point of
watching the characters solve them all.  Interactive fiction without
puzzles may have an artistic attraction, but there is no action without
conflict, conflict is essentially problem-solving.  Anything else would be
-- well, interactive poetry, I suppose.

-TEA-
