IF like real life


Wed, 21 Jun 1995 04:32:37 GMT

In article <60.5744.4154.0N1E7167@canrem.com> you wrote:
: Adventure games are NOT real life!

Not so! Last week I struggled with a vending machine and said to
myself, hey, this is a Bureaucracy puzzle!

The Vending Machine Puzzle [1 point]
Player gets cookies as a reward for solving

Lounge
You are in the bottom lounge of the dorm hall. Couches are placed around
the room, and a pool table and ping-pong table are in the center.
You see an old piano here.
You see a vending machine here.
Several people are playing pool here.

>PLAY PIANO

The keys are stuck!

>PULL KEYS

You can't seem to get a grip.

(I decided to move on to a different puzzle. I never did solve this
one, although I think it had something to do with somehow keeping
the classical pianist from playing right after she unsticks the keys,
since after she plays for about 10 minutes they get stuck again. Not
only that, her name was Bambi, the sort of name a IF author might choose.)

>EXAMINE VENDING MACHINE

The enticing item in particular is a bag of Grandma's Fudge Cookies.
It costs 55 cents. The machine has a coin slot, a reject slot, and a
reject lever. On it is a big label that says "Nickels, Dimes, and
Quarters Only."

>I

You have two quarters, two nickels, three pennies, and two dimes.

>PUT QUARTER IN MACHINE. PUT QUARTER IN MACHINE. PUT NICKEL IN MACHINE.

The quarter rattles into the vending machine.
The quarter rattles into the vending machine.
The nickel rattles into the vending machine and out the reject slot.

>PUT NICKEL IN MACHINE.

The nickel rattles into the vending machine and out the reject slot.

>PUT DIME IN MACHINE. BUY COOKIES.

The dime rattles into the vending machine.
The vending machine says 'Sorry, exact change required.'

>PULL LEVER

You hear coins clunking into the reject slot.

>GET ALL FROM REJECT SLOT

Coins taken.

>DROP NICKELS.

Dropped.

>ASK PERSON FOR NICKEL

"Sure, try this one."

>PUT NICKEL IN SLOT

The nickel rattles into the vending machine and out the reject slot.

>GET NICKEL. PERSON, TRADE DIME FOR TWO NICKELS.

After a bit of searching, someone comes up with a dime a trades it with you.

>PUT QUARTER IN SLOT. PUT DIME IN SLOT. PUT DIME IN SLOT. PUT DIME IN
SLOT. BUY COOKIES.

You see the spiral with the cookies move forwards. The cookies start to fall
down, but get stuck on the metal.
(no, just kidding, I actually finally got the cookies at this point)

[at not only that, the first time I wrote this message I accidentally
hit 'r' instead of 'f' to followup! :]

--
Jason Dyer - jdyer@indirect.com