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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Lost New York - The Nickel of Doom
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:54:44 GMT
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Spoilers...



In article <klK38kG00WB5Md3fxO@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Andrew C. Plotkin"
<erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:

>kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair) writes:
>> Okay, I'm trying to get the nickel in the sewer grate.  As far as I can
>> tell, it's about the only thing I can do at this point in the game.
>> The yardstick will fit through the grate, but you can only move the
>> nickel around a bit.  So I thought maybe I should attach something to
>> the yardstick, like the envelope or the chewing gum (yes, I know you
>> use the gum elsewhere). 
>
>Gum is a good thought. It's got to be chewed gum, obviously. So
>"elsewhere" might not be as incompossible with the nickel as you
>thought. 

Mmm, okay, stupid me figured out how to get chewed gum about five seconds
after I sent this post.  But I had to play guess the verb with the gum 
and the yardstick.  Watch:  


>ATTACH GUM TO STICK
Okay, the gum is now stuck to the end of the yardstick.

>ATTACH GUM TO NICKEL
I don't know how to attach the wad of chewing gum to the nickel.

>TAKE GUM
(Ew.)
Taken.

>PRESS GUM TO NICKEL
You press the wad of chewing gum against the nickel.

>PRESS STICK TO GUM
You press the yardstick against the wad of chewing gum.

>TAKE NICKEL WITH GUM
How exactly do you propose to do that?

>TAKE NICKEL WITH STICK
You'll have to explain how to take a nickel with a yardstick.

>TAKE NICKEL
So now your arms are three feet long and two inches wide?  You can't reach
through the grate to get that.

>PUT STICK IN GRATE
You poke around in the sewer with the yardstick, but are unable to do
anything constructive.

>PUT GUM ON STICK
Okay, the gum is now stuck to the end of the yardstick.

>PUT STICK IN GRATE
You lower the yardstick carefully into the sewer grate, then slowly lift
it back out with the nickel stuck to the gum.  You hurriedly grab the
nickel before it can fall back into the sewer.


I want to know how I could press the gum to the nickel.

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