> And, of course, if you must include a time limit, it should be a
> reasonably long one. I wasn't paying attention to the game clock,
> but it _felt_ like on the order of five minutes or so before the
> explosion. If the time limit had rougly coincided with the 2-hour
> time limit of the contest, I wouldn't have any complaint.
By that reasoning, you'd only be able to play the game once (In which
case if you had to do something before a certain time, you'd only get
one chance.
(BTW, I think you get about 4 and a half hours, with a plot about 1/2
the size of the infocom mysteries.)