Hide a pachyderm! is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2014 by Simon Deimel.
In this simple and very short one-room joke game, you have six turns to hide your pet elephant before your angry landlord forces his way into your tenement. Good luck!
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 10 of the game.
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Someone is knocking on your apartment door, and you need to hide your pet elephant. If you don't open the door within six turns, your landlord opens it regardless.
tenement
There's no time to examine anything. You must act. The hi-fi must be on to both explain the previous noises heard, and to cover up any noises the elephant itself makes.
> turn on hi-fi. open fridge.
> take pet. put pet in fridge.
> close fridge. open door.
*** Saved by the bell ***
In lieu of credits, this is the response to ABOUT:
This short game is an interactive adaption of an old lame joke, coded by Simon Deimel in 2014. It is supposed to be a very short diversion and will hopefully make the player chuckle.
Note that while you're carrying the elephant, you can't do anything else except do something with the elephant, including INVENTORY.
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