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From: droe@cs.tcd.ie (David Roe)
Subject: Re: Q: Hitchhikers FAQ
Message-ID: <1993Jun24.155901.24609@cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin (Computer Science)
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 15:59:01 GMT
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In article <20cciv$32j@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> ameston@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Anthony Meston) writes:
>Oh, all right. So no-one Knows if there is a FAQ. Well I hope that all
>of you are satisfied as my house-mate is about to kill me with a large
>chocolate pancake. :-)
>
>If there doesn't exist the little FAQ animal, at least tell her how to
>get past this little uncooperative door on the Heart of Gold (Marvin, is
>on the other side).
>
Spoilers follow


You need to impress that door with something.

It tells you somewhere in the Guide (I think it could be an entry on
intelligence, or something similar) that truly wise men are able to do
seemingly paradoxical things.....

You have this ability, in fact you have half of a paradox with you from
the very beginning of the adventure.....

The real problem is getting the other half....

The drinks machine just isnt clever enough to manage to make some on its
own, it needs help from a bigger computer....

So, having got that stuff made, (and had a few problems thrown in along
the way) the real problem is getting both at the same time - since that
is clearly nonsensical.

In fact its against your common sense - you should try to extract it.

Okay, Ive got pissed off hinting, next space brings up the whole
solution.

You need "tea" and "no tea" to get in (this impresses the door big time)

To make the tea you need to hook up the nutrimatic to the ships
computer.

The cable to do this is in the bugblatter beast's lair.

Once you have the thing hooked up the whole world goes mental of course.

In any case, once this is done, the machine will make a lovely cup of
tea. Normally you cant keep the "no tea" when you get the tea. 

One of the places you go to with the improbability drive is into your
own brain - here you can remove your own common sense.

With the common sense gone you can now get tea, pick up the no tea again
and keep both.


	Dave "HHGTTG has to be the best game of all time" Roe
