🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

The cyclops says "Mmm Mmm. I love hot peppers! But oh, could I use a drink. Perhaps I could drink the blood of that thing." From the gleam in his eye, it could be surmised that you are "that thing".

-- Zork I

Factoid of the day

In 1992, former implementers Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn teamed up to found video game company Blank, Berlyn & Co., eventually renamed to Eidetic and then to Bend Studio after being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment. The company initially produced games for the Apple Newton, but later pivoted to computer and console games such as Busby 3D and Syphon Filter.

*Return to Zork: The MPEG Version*
Sep 1994

Invisiclues

Spellbreaker

For Your Amusement

(after you've finished the story)

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

What did we name the cubes here at lnfocom?

Dave gave them boring names like "Earth" or "Air."
Gary gave them all incomprehensible (to others) single-letter names, because he hates typing.
Max named one "Ohio" because he was looking for a 4-letter synonym for No Place. (Max has never visited Ohio, either.)
Spike named them "cube 1" through "cube 13" because, while he isn't wildly imaginative, he is very smart.
Liz named the Fire Room cube "Bob" after her husband.
Amy named the Dark Room cube "Inky."

Have you tried...

...TINSOTing the magic carpet, then flying to the Outcropping?
...reading the carpet label during flight?
...FROTZ GRUE in a dark room (not in the Dark Room area)?
...reading the pillar?
...SNAVIG SERPENT or YOMIN SNAKE (before and after shrinking it)?
...sleeping on the green eyed rock? Petting it?
...giving fish or bread to the green eyed rock?
...showing the lava fragment to the rock?
...swallowing things when you're a grouper?
...smelling the ogre, or smelling the ogre when you're an ogre?
...trying to convince the merchant to sell you a carpet for less than 500 zorkmids?
...hitting the alarm fairy?
...YOMINing the shadow in the Castle?
...slavering while a grue?
...following the rabbit in the Meadow?
...landing the magic carpet other than In Roc Nest or Guard Tower?
...MALYONing the idol while you are on it?
...casting a spell (other than BLORPLE) at the Plain?
...following the shadow from Belwit Square?
...CASKLYing the red carpet?
...YOMINing any enchanter after he's been turned into an amphibian?
...MALYONing the cube in the hermit's hut?
...looking at a grue when you are a grue?
...attacking a grue when you are a grue?
...YOMIN GRUE?
...examining the orange smoke or smelling it?
...TINSOTing the glacier?
...melting the lava?
...trying to sleep in the ogre's cave?