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This is one of the "Golden Collection" from Gilsoft, written using The Quill system. There's a whole lot of them, but the title of this one took my fancy.

Apart from a rather effective "title page", the game is text only and comes with no instructions in the inlay other than how to load. The first location begs a course of action which is demanded rather than logical and the consequences are pure fantasy! At this point the objective is revealed.

Immediately this part has been played out, the adventurer has a problem to solve, which is really a matter of getting the right order of actions for the desired effect - to escape a prison cell. Once the door is open, things start to get really difficult - difficult until the right word is found. And so, after many attempts, I lost my locations details, and thought I'd better have another look around.

This time I'm sure I'm right! You can't look or examine anything, or regain your location details - unless the required instruction is extremely obscure. And as I said, there are no instructions.

Once out of the cell, there are some interesting places to wander about and that's just what I did. The game does seem to wander rather, instead of concentrating the mind on a particular problem, I wandered around until I fell down an unseen and unmentioned hole, and got killed off.

HELP gives the reply "What do you think this is, The Hobbit?" and score tells you "England 0 Wales 0". Yes, one of those games. Competent, but not out of the ordinary.