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From: thornley@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom)
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.175411.10523@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 17:54:11 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.140054.1243@urz.unibas.ch> hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes:
>
>I know this has already been discussed but I have some problems playing
>the Infocom adventure Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I guess you have to
>show tea and no tea to the door to enter Marvin's room. Or is there another
>way to demonstrate your intelligence? I've managed to get some real tea (not
>the substitute). But how can I hold tea and no tea? Everytime I take the tea, 
>I automatically drop no tea. I tried to put the tea in some pocket to take it 
>out again and leave no tea in the pocket, but this doesn't work. Does somebody 
>know the solution? If the solution is not a simple step, I'd like to get only 
>a hint, so that I will not miss any joke. Thanks in advance for any reply.
>
First, how can you have both tea and no tea?  It violates common sense!

You seem to be missing a really obscure action altogether.  In the bar
scene, the bar sells beer, peanuts, and sandwiches.  You drank the
beer, you know about peanuts, ever buy a sandwich?  Look at it.
Would you eat that?  What else could you do with it?

DHT