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NOTE!! READ THIS BOOK _AFTER_ READING "BOOK WWITH NO NAME" AND "CLUES TO NAMING A BOOK", ELSE YOU RUIN THE RIDDLES!! To solve this book, you must be some sort of weirdo, I fear. At any rate, this is what you needed to realize. 1: Names are important. (hence the title of the book, mentions names, and yet in the story, not a single one is mentioned. You ought have known something was up right there.) 2: There are some weird phrases in the book, wonder why... then, you take a look at them and notice something... There are a few words that have something in common... They are all names of old Atari 2600 games. Many of them. So. You see that there are lots of Atari games, and you figure out that the Master is Yari and that the pretender is Yar... And you think Yar...Hmm... Yar's Revenge was a kick ass Atari game, and hmm, sure looks like a good title! Woo Hoo, "Yar's Revenge"! And collect your 100,000 gold coins. A little too late, I realized that this book is only solveable by Atari freaks, which is primarily white american males age 23-29 or so. Pretty limited. Ah well, I still liked writing it, and I hope that you still liked reading it. As an extra credit excercise, if you are the first person to mail me the list of all seventeen(I think, maybe more) games referred to, you'll get some nice prize, I havent decided what yet. You have 1 week to do this, starting... EET time is Sat Oct 14 07:53:44 1995 Here is a transcript of all the mails and tells I got about this one. Jacinth tells you 'you have a particular title in mind, or will you choose the best one?' > tell jacinth particular title. it has one, you just need to figure it out You tell Jacinth 'particular title. it has one, you just need to figure it out' Jacinth tells you 'ok. I think I know who the pretender is too :)' > tell jacinth who? You tell Jacinth 'who?' > Jacinth tells you 'yar?' Webworm tells you 'well, nice story :)' Webworm tells you 'clearly references to a number of bat areas: graveyard, ant hill, crystal castle, pit... (if the last two are areas)' Webworm tells you 'and bat events: meteors... hmm! :)' Webworm tells you 'not yet, maybe i should visit the graveyard ... it's been a long time since i've been there...' Webworm tells you 'there are a string of races mentioned throughout' Webworm tells you 'from phoenix, zombie, cyclops, to gnoll' Webworm tells you 'seems likely that shapeshifters may be an event, or clones more likely perhaps' Webworm tells you 'most probably the title is in those magic words, and i have to figure out the encryption key' [These are the words to Banish Spell, nothing more] From: Timetress Subject: New Puzzle Date: Fri Sep 29 04:39:07 1995 To: yari Cc: timey It's a great story. Even though i've never read a steven king novel i loved the story you wrote. Keep up the good work. Mailreader 16-17 (type 'help' for help) ? 17 From: Finaldey Subject: The name of the book is Yari's Caddliac. Date: Fri Sep 29 23:27:58 1995 To: Yari Cc: Not that simple, huh? Ok. Just trying my luck. See ya. From: Hablo Subject: The puzzle Date: Sat Sep 30 15:57:06 1995 To: yari Cc: Nice story. Strange task. My answer is coming soon. Guess it has something to do with tomb or grave... Hablo the Dwarf that looks very much like a hobbit. In fact he might just beo one Mailreader 16-17 (type 'help' for help) ? 17 From: Hablo Subject: Answer Date: Sat Sep 30 16:01:42 1995 To: yari Cc: No, nothing to do with graves or tombs. My answer is: Two Dead Men. Wont bug you anymore. Be seeing you Hablo From: Aaleji Subject: Facts that have to be sifted... Date: Tue Oct 3 21:57:34 1995 To: yari Cc: Important facts, numbered in sequence from the story. Facts with a 'x' have been dismissed as irrelevant. 05) Going to the graveyard first. 08) The METEOR event is running. 16) They are going to the ant hill. 18) They will go to the crystal castle. 19) Looking for new leggings (hint to Baal?) 21) The pretender's name is similar to the lord's. 22) The pretender is in the Crimson Brigade. 23) The pretender has "external similarities" to the lord. 25) The issue is "your own space." (referring to the lord's, I think) 27) There is a fallen tree in the road. 28) The lord is a cyclops, or at least has cyclops strength. 31) *KABOOM* and explosion. (Minesweeper!) 33) They went hard right on a road over a hill 35) They vere off the road, through a break in the forest, down a hill. 37) The break in the forest narrows. 38) The hill gets steeper. 39) JUMP! JUMP! SLAMMED! 40) Jumped at the nearest break in the trees. 41) Falling... 42) Light dark light dark...dark. (Chessboard?) 43) Lots of undergrowth where he lands. 46) Crawls to the end of the undergrowth. 47) An enormous pitfall! Long and deep. 50) The original story is "Dolan's Cadillac" by Stephen King. x 01) Again, the master is angry. x 02) He rolls in like a thundercloud. x 03) He rises like a phoenix from the ashes. x 04) They are going to the usual haunts. x 06) He has respects to pay at the graveyard. x 07) Clearing the throat is "one of their signs." x 09) Recently met with warlords. x 10) Last joust result unexpected. x 11) Hated unpleasant surprises (the lord) x 12) "Combat!" x 13) Three zombies die. x 14) The carriage is Mithril reinforce oak. x 15) The carriage is quite defensible. x 17) They will try to kill the giant centipede. x 20) There is a pretender who was assassinated. x 24) The lord does not like to use force/kill things. x 26) "Blast!" x 29) The driver is a gnoll. x 30) The driver/gnoll was rescued from a ghoul attack by the lord. (There are more facts that I've discarded, but you get the point) Aaleji tells you 'I've been sorting through my memory for a time when 2 tanks had similar names, but nothing comes to mind.' [Aaleji sure is determined...] As for the hint book...read it carefully and look at all my quotes. You might notice something about each one... I wont tell you what, just give it a looking over. Until Next Time... Yari Jacinth figured out the hidden games. Quite quickly, I might add. Here's the mail about that. Mailreader 17-17 (type 'help' for help) ? 16 From: Jacinth Subject: Atari Games Date: Wed Oct 18 04:34:03 1995 To: yari Cc: Ok.. I'm not quite sure how many of these are right, but I have 14 ones that I'm positive about, and about 5 or 6 possibles.. of course some are definitely wrong, I'd appreciate it if you could write back letting me know if I'm close, whatnot. Ok.. here goes. 1) Phoenix 2) Night Driver 3) Warlords 4) Joust 5) Combat 6) Centipede 7) Space Invaders 8) Defender 9) Vanguard 10) Adventure 11) Kaboom 12) Dodge 'em 13) Pitfall 14) Asteroids Ok.. and the others I"m not sure about are stampede, space blast, jump, crystal castle, and lucky break.. am I close or what? Thanks.. this is so much more fun than playing this impossible game :) ...Jacinth Jacinth, hats off to you. Crystal Castle, Stampede, and Space Blast were the ones you were not sure of. So, now, if only someone could figure out how my hint book hints. (That's a hint. Go figure it out.) Yari

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