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From: tony@uc780.umd.edu
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Subject: RE: Unsolved Games
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Date: 8 May 91 10:40:46 GMT
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In a previous article, havir@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Eric Havir) wrote:
>Has anyone gotten through the game "Aurther", a 'new' Infocom game with
>graphics, etc. based in the age of King Aurther??  I bought it from the budget
>rack at a local computer store a while ago...got through almost the whole
>game...but got stuck near the end.  There is a point at which it refers to a
>poem written in the manual, as being the clue to the answer.  I've read the
>poem 50 million times, and still haven't figured it out.  It must be something
>little I'm doing wrong.  The poem refers to the 'hawthorn flower' and it's
>blooming on Christmas day.  I found the bud of the flower...but haven't been
>able to get it to bloom before Christmas day (and my death).  Anyone do this
>one?
> 
>--
>  Eric "Rangorin" Havir
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You're not supposed to get the flower to bloom before Christmas day.
Do as much of the game as possible and then wait (preferably near the
town) until the point where Christmas day just begins.  The go get the
flower.  It will be blooming when you get to it.  You will still have
time to take it where you need to.

--Tony   (tony@uc780.umd.edu   or  uc780.bitnet)