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This adventure, like the previous one, is unusual in its setting and aim. You are an intrepid newspaper reporter and must search the streets for the front page news which will distinguish you from the other hacks. Fail in your task and you'll be fired!

The game begins with the piercing sound of your morning alarm. Sound features quite often in the game with the sounds of lifts and car engines, not forgetting the telephone which rings, providing you with a message which oves you forward in the game. You awake, right at the start, to be faced by a morning domestic routine which becomes your first major task - you must get dressed and head off to work. This is a lot more complicated and confusing than you may think - even the simplest tasks are difficult to achieve first time round. Everything must be done in a particular order.

When you eventually find the newspaper office, and this could take a whie, the newspaper boss will give you a story to investigate and from there you're on your own! Do you have the intuition which will take you to the top of your profession?

This is a very interesting adventure, with fairly good location descriptions and often involved tasks which are difficult to complete. Like London Adventure, Scoop is a very good example of a Quilled game at its best.