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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: "Rock-a-bye shopkeeper..." & some hints (a.k.a. mild spoilers)
Message-ID: <882@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 11:55:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 11:55:46 1986
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In article <1443@bbnccv.UUCP> ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor) writes:
> Extra household hint:  Don't waste those wands of polymorph on monsters.
> polymorph lousy wands (make invisible, create monster) into useful tools
> (death, fire, digging, polymorph).  I find that a wand of polymorph can
> transform five wands if they are lined up in a row and you zap down the
> line.

Actually, if you have a sufficiently large number of wands, including
polymorph, you can produce an unlimited number of wands of wishing that
way.  Keep zapping wands, removing wands of polymorph and wishing as they
are created.  When a wand of wishing or polymorph is used up, put it in the
pile to be zapped.  If you need more wands, use a wand of wishing to create
wands of polymorph.  Your limitation is food: but you can eat things that
attack while you are zapping, or create food with the wands of wishing.
It's time consuming and tedious, but once I worked up to about a dozen
wands of wishing starting from one and about ten assorted wands.  I checked
the sources, and the probabilities in my version give a definite edge.

This might be something to fix for the next version.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh