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Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD

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From: Carlos DaSilva
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
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Mark Taylor wrote in message <34fd1e3e...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>thya...@sol.com.br wrote:
>
>> My incompetence? I think not. If I failed to choose the right lamp in a
>>totally random puzzle, than it means I wasn't very lucky. If you got the
right
>>one the first time you played, than congratulations, chances of that
happening
>>are of 20%, since there are ABSOLUTELY NO CLUES to what lamp you should be
>>needing by the end of the game.
>
>ROFL!
>
>You have picked one of the MOST LOGICAL puzzles in the game to knock!
>There is at least one cut scene between the vizier and the genie where
>the lamp is in foreground on the desk. 'Course, if you weren't paying
>attention.....


The point is that Alexander wasn't there to actually see that lamp. Only the
omniscient player to give Alexander an Obi-Wan like suggestion.

>FWIW, I have enjoyed the more recent KQs even though they have flaws.
>What game doesn't? But if you MUST denigrate the game, at least choose
>a valid excuse!


It was a valid excuse.

CJD

>Mark
>
>Mark Taylor     Ma...@samadhi.demon.co.uk
>Gamesplayer, idler & apprentice couch-potato
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From: "Carlos DaSilva" <cdas...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD
Date: 1998/03/04
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