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This is a 40-room adventure in Basic, with purely textual display. The plot is quite good, though perhaps rather limited in scope, but the text fails to stir the imagination.

The use of Basic means that responses are somewhat slow, and the player has to spell everything out in full, where other adventures allow a laconic N to mean "GO NORTH".

An particular irritation is that there is only one chance in 64 of getting anywhere useful in the initial moves, most of which leave the current location unchanged.

The vocabulary features 17 verbs and 55 nous, and there is a basic three-word format. This means that some commands have to be abbreviated, for example where the form "Do X to Y" is necessary. There are a few textual errors, but only one is serious. This gives the word MIRROR for ARMOUR, which would have fatal results.

D.T.