Or look at it this way–the peg puzzle is one where I recall the positions I want and the general ideas, but it’s not in the flow of the game.
Unfortunately, ZZ doesn’t feel fully replayable, because of that–I remember too many of the puzzles, and there’s a trap or two where you can’t win the game, and that gets in the way of the crazy imagination and the jester being wonderfully obnoxious. Of course, it’s plastered all over the internet now, and it didn’t jibe with the story, but it was fun to be able to get through a good chunk of a Zork game on my own. It did, however, help me understand nim and, to a certain extent, mathematical induction.Īnd I did appreciate the explanation of the peg puzzle, too. Maybe because I’d been able to solve a lot of the other canonical puzzles, but this one stopped me cold, and then I faceplanted on the story-based stuff that wasn’t copy protection. Hey! Don’t forget the nim puzzle! The nim puzzle made me groan. I’m totally judging you on the peg puzzle, the tower of hanoi and the fox feed and fowl puzzles.īut I also loved it, so don’t feel lonely. But with The Gostak, more than with most games, if you have any information in advance, you probably know whether it’s your cup of tea. Technically, it would apply to most of the older comp games written well before the IFDB was created–many of the votes on those games would come from people motivated to play them. Outside of a competition, it’s not something you play for longer than two minutes unless you’re keen on the precise experience it delivers.įair point. Agree with Victor that more polarizing games are less likely to be reflected in the IFDB ratings, which makes it surprising that The Gostak shows up at #29 (with 41 votes), as that game appears to have the highest standard deviation in the history of the IFComp (the comp page doesn’t have those stats for 1995-1998, but it’s not obvious what entry from those years would have been more polarizing).īut people who play it nowadays do so because they heard about it and are interested.
No Losing Your Grip or Change in the Weather. Beyond Zork and Zork Zero are the only Zorks represented, somewhat surprisingly to me.
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