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From: roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: Okay, I give up.
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Date: 20 Nov 90 04:41:03 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>> By the way, Adventure is also the source of the line "you are in a maze of
>>> twisty little passages, all alike", in case that one also had you confused.

newman_r@cho006.cho.ge.com writes:
>> or any number of permutations of the same, like (if memory serves) "you are
>> in a maze of little twisty passages, all alike."  I think that the particular
>> permutation served as a clue as to which way to get out through the maze.

dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet) writes:
>Yup.  I eventually drew a map and discovered there's only 12 (if memory
>serves) rooms.  But, oh, the number of passages...

There were two mazes, were there not?  One with 12 rooms, including (or plus)
one with the vending machine in it, and one with perhaps 8 or 9 rooms, in
which the pirate hid the stuff he stole.  One of them used different per-
mutations of "little twisty passages," but the other called them all the
same thing, I think.

The big one was extremely interconnected--of the 10 possible directions of
movement, each room had passages going in 8 of them, for a total of 48
tunnels (I think :) ).  The little one was more strung out, and some of
the passages connected back to the room of origin.

This was the 350-point version, I believe, on an old PDP-11 micro.