General Questions

Is the Hitchhiker's Guide important?

  1. Well, the game _is_ named after it...
  2. The various entries in the Guide contain all sorts of useful information and hints that you'll need to solve the puzzles in the game.
  3. The proper syntax for reading a particular Guide entry is CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT (item). For example, you could type CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT MUSHROOMS.
  4. Once you know the solutions to all the puzzles, you could play to the end of the game without ever using the Guide.
  5. There are 39 Guide entries in the game. A complete list of the topics appears in the Guide Entries section.

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