Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles! is an ADRIFT 4 interactive fiction game and is © 2008 by J.J. Guest. Version 1 was an entry in The Odd Competition where it took 3rd place. Version 2 is the expanded version released in 2010. This new version is an Inform 7 port and runs on the Z-machine platform.
In this small silly game, you play as Steve Goodwin, a junior marketing executive who wants to learn the meaning of life itself! That's why you've journeyed to the mystical valley of Shangri-La to find the legendary guru known as the Dada Lama! If anyone can teach you the secrets of the universe, it would be he.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on both Versions 1 and 2 of the game.
Shangri-La
> x me. i. (carrying nothing)
> x glacier.
> w.
Meadow
> in. (Smell overpowers you.)
> e. e.
Mountaintop
> x acolyte. x chopsticks.
> ask acolyte about lama. (Lama will answer all questions.)
> in.
Sanctum Sanctorum
The Dada Lama gives you your first task: open a jar of pickled eggs. Refer to the Dada Lama as "lama". Refer to the jar as "eggs" when "jar" doesn't work.
> x lama. x girls.
> x eggs. open eggs. (Not that easy.)
> out.
Mountaintop
> give eggs to acolyte. (No.)
> clap. (Acolyte is now buried under snow.)
> look. x snow. take chopsticks.
> x flags. x sock. take sock. (Large enough for head.)
> x flags. x peg. take peg.
> w. w.
Meadow
> wear peg. in.
Yak Shed
> x yak. shave yak. (Need something to shave with.)
> out. e. n.
Glacier
> x razor. take razor.
> x ice. rub ice.
> s. w. in.
Yak Shed
> shave yak. x yak. x wool.
> knit sock. (using the chopsticks as knitting needles)
> x socks.
> out. remove peg. e. e. in.
Sanctum Sanctorum
> x seating. open seat. take hairdryer. x it.
> out. w. n.
Glacier
> melt ice. (using the hairdryer)
> in.
Ice Cave
> x yeti. give socks to yeti. (He leaves.)
> out.
Glacier
> give eggs to yeti. (He opens it. Far out.)
> x eggs.
> s. e. in.
Sanctum Sanctorum
> give eggs to lama. (Life is yak shaving!)
Congratulations! You have completed the Odd Competition mini version of Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!
In the final version Shangri-La will include such exotic locations as:
Thanks for playing!
An expanded version of the game was released, but none of these exotic locations were included.
Shangri-La
> about. x me. i. x coat. x boots.
> x mountain.
> ne.
Plot 108
> x gravel. x trees. x gnomes. x flamingo. x caravan. x curtain.
> in.
Monk's Cell
> x monk. x sofa.
> ask monk about monk. wake monk. push monk. (Doesn't work.)
> out. w.
Foot of the Mountain
> n.
Moraine
> x ice. rub ice. x boulders.
> sw.
Meadow
> x grass. x boulders. x flowers. x barn.
> in. (The smell repels you.)
> e. u.
Mountaintop
> x caravan. x sigils. x acolyte.
> x flags. take sock. (You take a peg as well.)
> x sock. x peg.
> ask acolyte about lama. ask acolyte about clapping.
> ask acolyte about sock.
> in. (He won't let you carry anything inside.)
> clap. drop all. in.
Inner Sanctum
> x mandalas. x lama. x tub.
> x blonde. (Mitzy) x brunette. (Candy)
> x jar. open jar. out.
Mountaintop
> take sock and peg.
> ask acolyte about chopsticks. ask acolyte about flies.
> ask acolyte about jar.
> d. w.
Meadow
> wear peg. in.
Yak Shed
> x dung. x flies. x yak. x sunlight.
> take flies. (Not with your bare hands.)
> out.
Mountaintop
> x awning.
Inner Sanctum
> ask lama about clapping. (He claps you on the ear.)
> out.
Mountaintop
> take jar and sock.
> clap. (It works. Then the acolyte is buried in snow.)
> x snow. take chopsticks.
> d. w. in.
Yak Shed
> take flies. (With the chopsticks, you finally catch one.)
> out. e. e. in.
Monk's Cell
> x fly. drop fly. (The monk eventually freaks out and leaves.)
> open sofa. take razor. x razor.
> out. w. w. in.
Yak Shed
> shave yak. x wool.
> knit sock. (Using the chopsticks and wool, you knit a second sock.)
> x socks.
> out.
Inner Sanctum
> open seat. take hairdryer. out. d. n.
Moraine
> x hairdryer. turn on hairdryer. melt ice.
> x hole. in.
Ice Cave
> x yeti. give socks to yeti. out.
Moraine
The yeti wanders.
> sw.
Meadow
Let's try to go where the yeti will be instead of where he currently is.
> e.
Foot of the Mountain
If necessary, wait for the yeti to arrive.
> give jar to yeti. (He opens it, and stomps off.)
> u. in.
Inner Sanctum
> give jar to lama.
*** You have won ***
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