John Olson's Games

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Gymnasium Adventure

Gymnasium Map

A PE Classroom

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The PE Department Office

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A Small Exercise Room

A Student Lounge Area

Outside the School Building

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Outside the School Building

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The North Entrance Hall

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A Corridor Junction

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An East-West Hallway

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A Hallway

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The Main Foyer Joining Back To The School Building

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In The Main School Building

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A Janitorial Closet

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A Combination Boiler/Laundry Room

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A Corridor

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A Backstage Storage & Dressing Area

An A.V. (Audio-Visual/ Movie) Room

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A Shower Room

A Hall

A Stage Area At The North End of the Gym

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A Gym & Stage Storage Room

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Locker Room

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A Hallway

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The Gym- nasium The Bleachers

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A Weight (Lifting) Room

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Outside the School Building

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The South Entrance Hall

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A Hallway Junction

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The Gymnasium Lobby

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A Concession Stand

Some opening remarks:

• There's no undo or save command in this game. Unfortunately, there's also several ways to instantly lose the game without warning. Take heed:
  • DON'T leave the locker room (go east) without the towel. Once you have your pants, you can drop the towel, but not before.
  • DON'T light/strike a match.
  • DON'T pull the switch at South Entrance Hall. It's for the fire alarm.
  • DON'T move/pull/take the fire extinguisher at North Entrance Hall. You can safely look at it, but nothing else.
  • DON'T break/pry anything.
  • DON'T leave the building. Seniors will steal your towel (or pants).
  • DON'T enter the main building (east from Foyer). It's after hours, and you're underdressed.
• There's an inventory limit which rather discourages carrying around anything you don't need. And frankly, besides your clothes and wallet, a towel, and a key, there's nothing else you need to take.
• There aren't many verbs to play with, but the game tells you all the ones you need at the beginning. So you don't need EAT, SLEEP, CUT, SEARCH, CLOSE, SMELL, LISTEN, etc. Surprisingly, WEAR is also unneeded.
• The game doesn't understand synonyms for nouns either. The refrigerator must be called 'refrigerator', not 'fridge'; the blackboard is 'blackboard', not 'board'. However, you can just use the first three letters of a word, eg: "ope ref" means "open refrigerator".

Locker Room

>take towel. e. e.

Gymnasium

>go bleachers.

The Bleachers

>take shoes. e. s. s.

A Concession Stand

>open refrigerator. take socks.

>push refrigerator. take pants. drop towel.

>n. w. n. n. n. n. n.

The PE Department Office

>open desk. take key. w.

A PE Classroom

Solve the equations on the blackboard. The answers are x=3, y=4, and z=5.

>look blackboard. e. s. s.

A Corridor

>open door. drop key. w. w.

A Janitorial Closet

>take wallet. e. e. n. e. e.

A Hallway

>open locker. 3-4-5. take shirt. w. n.

A Small Exercise Room

>take pads. drop pads. take coat.

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Palace Adventure

Palace Map 1: Ground Level

				A Large Reception Room & Den	—	The Royal Bedroom
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		A Private Dining Room	—	A Corridor Behind the Throne Room	—	An Elegant Study/Library
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The Servant Quarters	—	The Royal Kitchen	—	The THRONE Room !!!		A Secret Passage
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		A Big Banquet Hall	—	A Royal Meeting & Reception Hall		A Second Bedroom !?
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		An Informal Reception Chamber	—	Large Entrance Hall		The Harem Room
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		A SNAKE PIT	—	Steps Up to the Palace	—	A Secondary Palace Entrance
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		A Livestock Enclosure	—	The Main Palace Courtyard	—	A Small Palace Garden
				|		↓go water
				Outside the Palace Complex		A Pool of Water

Palace Map 2: Below the Palace

A Cell

A Small Chamber Under the Palace

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A Labyrinth Under the Palace

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A Maze Below the Palace

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A Secret Prison Cell

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A Corridor Off the Torture Room

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A large, large Torture Room

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The Entrance to a Secret Dungeon

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An Alcove in the Maze Below the Palace

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A Labyrinth Below the Palace

The THRONE Itself s↓ sit throne↑ In a Labyrinth Below the Palace

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The THRONE Itself s↓ sit throne↑ The THRONE Room !!!

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A Small Empty Cell

A Maze Under the Palace

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Palace Walkthrough

Some opening remarks:

• There's no undo or save command in this game. Unfortunately, there's also several ways to instantly lose the game without warning. Be careful!
• There's an inventory limit which rather discourages carrying around anything you don't need.
• There aren't many verbs to play with, but the game tells you all the ones you need at the beginning. So you don't need EAT, SLEEP, CUT, SEARCH, CLOSE, SMELL, LISTEN, etc.
• The game doesn't understand synonyms for nouns either. The ID card must be called 'card', not 'id'. However, words can be shortened to their first three letters, so TAK TAP means TAKE TAPESTRY.

Outside the Palace Complex

>look sign. look gate. open gate. n.

The Main Palace Courtyard

To the west are some portable elephants, and to the east is a pool, both of which you may ignore. DON'T "go water" at the pool; it's filled with alligators.

>look statue. n.

Steps Up to the Palace

DON'T go west or east! West is a deadly snake pit, and east has deadly guards (even if you're wearing a guard's uniform and have ID).

>look entrance. open entrance. n.

A Large Entrance Hall

The rug depicts the pool of alligators, and the book is a bad joke. The chamber to be west has a mural depicting the snake pit, and stranger, a straw basket with a Chrysler Imperial inside it!? You may ignore all of this.

>look rug. look book. n.

A Royal Meeting & Reception Hall

You can ignore everything here, too, although the painting does depict the harem. The banquet hall to the west only has a table and chairs, which you can ignore too.

>look painting. look container. open container. look snake. n.

The THRONE Room !!!

The throne is important later.

>look throne. w.

The Royal Kitchen

Finally, something useful.

>look counter. look cupboard. open cupboard. look saw. take saw. w

The Servant Quarters

>look pad. look hamper. open hamper. look uniform. wear uniform. w. n.

A Private Dining Room

>look set. look parchment. e. n.

A Large Recreation Room & Den

You need the umbrella, but DON'T open it indoors (that's bad luck). The monitor shows the torture chamber.

>look machine. look umbrella. look monitor.

>take umbrella. s. s. s. s. s. s. s.

Outside the Palace Gates

>open umbrella. drop umbrella. take card. look card.

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The Royal Bedroom

Nothing for you here. The safe cannot be opened.

>look furniture. look safe. look dresser. open dresser. look socks. s.

An Elegant Study / Library

This room has several clues. Read the message on the desk backwards. The paper refers to a cabinet in the basement. The tapestry depicts the maze and hides the secret way into the harem.

>look desk. open desk. look paper. take tapestry. drop tapestry. s. s.

A Second Bedroom !?

DON'T try to enter the harem itself; the guards will kill you.

>look bed. look box. open box. look key. take key.

>look mirror. look door. n. n. w. s.

The THRONE Room!!

>sit throne.

The THRONE Itself

The throne is either an elevator or a teleport booth. The game fails to be descriptive enough to tell us which.

>look button. push button. s.

In a Labyrinth Below the Palace

It's really not that much of a maze, to be honest.

>w. n. w.

An Alcove in the Maze Below the Palace

The mice are yet another joke. Elsewhere in the maze is a plaque, and a crate of golf balls, but you can ignore them. You can also ignore the rack in the torture chamber when you pass through it.

DANGER: You need the uniform and ID card before going west.

>look cabinet. open cabinet. look mice. push cabinet. w. w. w.

A Corridor Off the Torture Room

Best do what the key says, eh? The cell to the north has a rat; the cell to the south is empty. Of course, you want the cell to the west.

>look slot. look sconce. look key.

>insert key. pull sconce. w.

A Secret Prison Cell

Poor Penlope, she's been in this dungeon so long, she's forgotten how to spell her name correctly. Or talk. Or do anything at all. If Penlope is a dish, she must be a wooden one. Like, whee.

>look chain. look penlope. look saw. cut chain. take penlope.

>e. e. e. e. e. s. e. sit throne. push button.

>s. s. s. s. s. s.

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