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From: games@polyslo.UUCP (Fun and Games)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Wanderer unfair
Summary: Winning by wimps who are having problems with wanderer 8+]
Keywords: unfair, cheat, bug?
Message-ID: <3316@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 02:20:12 GMT
References: <116@kl-cs.cs.kl.ac.uk> <7816@mhuxu.UUCP>
Reply-To: games@polyslo.UUCP (Fun and Games)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In article <7816@mhuxu.UUCP> lae@mhuxu.UUCP (attt-Eppright, Laura) writes:
>>In article <116@kl-cs.cs.kl.ac.uk> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>>  What I can't cope
>>with is the blatent cheating on level 5.  I practise away until
>>I can do it easily by skipping to the screen and practising, and
>>then off I go back to the beginning to get the really MEGA score.
>>But when I start clearing off the $'s on the top right of the board
>>all of a sudden from off the playing area a boulder appears and knocks
>>me on the head.  I can't get the $ without getting killed it's impossible.
>>OK so who's the joker who put that little feature in, I'm off
>>to sulk until someone tells me how to get around it.
>>
>>             Jonathan Knight,                || JANET: jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs

That is an interesting feature. I don't seem to have any problem with the 
diamonds you're talking about on level 5. I don't go up there until I've
cleared over half the level, so maybe timing has something to do with it. It
could be an honest bug. Or you could be thinking about level 4 or 6, which
have a lot of tricky traps.

>A good way to cheat

Reduced to cheating already hey Laura?? Tsk, tsk 8+].
 
>If you cat out screen 11, you will see that this screen hasn't been
>written yet.

>I like that saying on screen 8 -- no escape! ha ha!   
>There is an exit (X) on screen 8 - can you really not get to it?

>Apologisies for those who were looking for "real" bugs, but I guess unwritten
>and impossible screens count as bugs!
>Laura Eppright

The jokes on you Laura 8+]. The X on 8 works just like any other X, and 11 only
looks like it's unwritten, it's really all there, just a little on the 
difficult side. The author of the game was just having a little fun with the
players.

>Do I get "extra credit" for discovering these things???

NO!! For not figuring out the truth about the screens the hard way
(i.e. completing the screens) you get an F for a Feeble effort 8+].

>How can I get the two diamonds on the left hand side of screen two?  They 
>are underneath too many boulders, and I keep getting "squished"! 

This trap in screen 2 is one of the toughest, but it is possible without any
changes. Hint comming up **SPOILER WARNING**

You need to use two arrows to get the diamonds out from under.


So far I've made it past all of the screens up through 12. I tried 13 for
awhile but it is **REALLY A BITCH** and I decided to go for the high score.
So far I've made it back through most of 12 without dying, and I know how
to do the rest (this evil home work monster keeps getting in the way though,
he's really a pain). My current best score is 7967. I have serious doubts
the feasability of level 13, it's real baby monster madness.

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