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- How all the points are scored in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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- Score Action
- 10 Taking the Buffered Analgesic
- 5 Drinking the Beer (1st time)
- 5 Drinking the Beer (2nd time)
- 5 Drinking the Beer (3rd time)
- 8 Arriving at the Vogon Hold
- 12 Getting the babel fish
- 15 Enjoying the vogon poetry
- 25 Opening the glass case
- 25 Entering the Engine Room
- 25 Getting the Interface
- 15 Drinking the beer (as Ford)
- 25 Leaving the party with Phil
- 25 Stealing the Heart of Gold
- 25 Taking the black particle
- 100 Drinking the Tea
- 25 Entering Marvin's Pantry
- 25 Blooming the plant
- 25 Getting Marvin to open the Hatch
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- 400 TOTAL POINTS
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- Note: You loose 30 points each for:
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- Eating the cheese sandwich
- Drinking the Advanced Tea Substitute
- Turning on the spare drive when plugged into the large recepticle
- before the missile attack begins
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- FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT
- -> You shouldn't develop anything in this section until you've finished the
- game. Things in the section will invariably give away the answers to puzzles
- in the game.
- -> Have you tried...
- -> looking under your bed?
- -> enjoying the mud while you're lying in front of the bulldozer?
- -> to PHONE HOME from your bedroom?
- -> asking Prosser for the time?
- -> to GET DRUNK in the pub?
- -> buying peanuts (as Arthur)?
- -> listening to the jukebox music (several times, then again when you're
- Ford)?
- -> petting or kicking the dog?
- -> feeding peanuts to the dog? (You can only do this as Ford, of course.)
- -> hitting Prosser (before and after your house is demolished)?
- -> enjoying your house after it's been demolished?
- -> asking PROSSER, WHAT ABOUT MY HOME after it's been demolished?
- -> giving the towel, the thing your aunt gave you, or the satchel to Prosser?
- (You can only do the last one when you're Ford, of course.)
- -> talking to Prosser after the Vogon fleet has arrived?
- -> eating the cheese sandwich when you're Ford?
- -> going straight to the Pub when you're Ford, instead of giving Arthur the
- towel, and then waiting a few turns?
- -> yelling in the Dark?
- -> waiting about 60 turns in Dark to see the hints you get?
- -> not eating the peanuts in the Vogon Hold?
- -> drinking the Santraginean Mineral Water?
- -> asking FORD, WHAT ABOUT THE EARTH once it's been destroyed?
- -> enjoying the Vogon poetry without the babel fish?
- -> opening the hatch in the Heart of Gold before landing on Magrathea?
- -> kicking the screening door, then entering Marvin's Pantry?
- -> closing the screening door once you've opened it?
- -> reading the tiny message on the circuit board with the magnifying glass?
- -> smashing the circuit board?
- -> turning on the spare Drive, plugged into the control panel, before the
- missile attack begins?
- -> turning on the spare Drive during the missile attack, without first
- plugging it into the control panel?
- -> asking Eddie to open the hatch after the ship has landed?
- -> not going to the Access Space after asking Marvin to fix the hatch?
- -> saying something other than your name when the Beast asks for it?
- -> saying your name with the towel over your eyes?
- -> to CARVE NAME ON MEMORIAL (rather than CARVE MY NAME ON MEMORIAL)?
- -> carving one of the names suggested by the previous item?
- -> carving the Beast's name on the memorial?
- -> reading the memorial (both before and after carving your name)?
- -> showing the thing your aunt gave you to the Beast?
- -> waking the sleeping Beast?
- -> drinking the wine at the party?
- -> eating one of the hors d'oeuvres? (Try several times.)
- -> throwing the glass of wine or the plate of hors d'oeuvres?
- -> to PICK UP ARTHUR or PICK UP PHIL at the party?
- -> jumping into the water from the Presidential Speedboat?
- -> throwing something into the water from the boat?
- -> shooting the crowd, the guards, Trillian, yourself, the toolbox?
- -> ordering GUARDS, SHOOT both before and after they've dropped their photon
- rifles?
- -> examining the approaching star system and the third planet from the War
- Chamber of the battle fleet?
- -> talking to the Vl'Hurg leader or G'Gugvunt leader?
- -> dropping something in the Maze (your brain) and then walking around once
- you've gotten out?
- -> talking to the bulldozer driver, the Vogon Captain, or the hostess?
- -> closing the thing your aunt gave you?
- -> wrapping the towel around your head anywhere except Traal?
- -> typing I AM ARTHUR DENT to the game (as opposed to while talking to a
- character in the game)?
- -> pushing the red button on the Thumb when an Engineer robot is already
- present?
- -> counting the hors d'oeuvres, the crowd at the Dais, or the guards (at
- various points)?
- -> typing PANIC? How about DON'T PANIC?
- -> typing DON'T LOOK or DON'T WAIT or DON'T (anything else)?
- -> typing GIVE UP or THROW IN THE TOWEL or PULL MYSELF TOGETHER?
- -> brushing your teeth with the toothbrush?
- -> typing ESCAPE at any point?
- -> filling anything?
- -> returning to various scenes after you've successfully completed them?
- Examples: returning to Damogran after stealing the Heart of Gold. Returning to
- Traal after getting the interface.
- -> typing APPLAUD at any point (other than during the poetry reading)?
- -> answering the game's various rhetorical questions, such as "Did you have a
- particular direction in mind?" or "Don't you think it would be a bad idea to
- leave the ceremonies?", by typing YES or NO?
- -> typing APPRECIATE [something]?
- -> asking various characters about the object of the game? (Especially
- Prosser, Ford, Marvin, Eddie, the Nutrimat, the screening door, and the
- Beast.)
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- GUIDE ENTRIES
- Here's a complete list of things that you can CONSULT the Hitchhiker's Guide
- about. You should use it only as a last resort, or for your interest once
- you've finished the game.
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- ALCOHOL
- ATOMIC VECTOR PLOTTER
- BABEL FISH
- BROWNIAN MOTION
- DAMOGRAN
- EARTH
- FLUFF
- FRANCE
- GALACTIC SECURITY AGENCY
- GALAXIA WOONBEAM
- GENUINE PEOPLE PERSONALITIES
- GREEN BUTTON
- HEART OF GOLD
- HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE
- IMPROBABILITY DRIVES
- INFOCOM
- INTELLIGENCE
- LARGE PLUG
- LONG DANGLY BIT
- MAGRATHEA
- MATTER TRANSFERENCE BEAMS
- NUTRIMAT
- PAN-GALACTIC GARGLE BLASTER
- PERIL-SENSITIVE SUNGLASSES
- PROTEIN
- RAVENOUS BUGBLATTER BEAST OF TRAAL
- RED BUTTON
- SANTRAGINEAN MINERAL WATER
- SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION
- SMALL PLUG
- SMALL RECEPTACLE
- SPACE
- THUMB
- TOWEL
- VOGON POETRY
- VOGONS
- WALKING
- various tools
- various weapons
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