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Adventure Game Hints General Questions Is the Hitchhiker's Guide important? Answers: 1. Well, the game is named after it... 2. The various entries in the Guide contain all sorts of useful information and hints that you'll need to solve the puzzles in the game. 3. The proper syntax for reading a particular Guide entry is CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT (item). For example, you could type CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT MUSHROOMS. Or you could press the Guide button (which automatically inputs CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT) followed by MUSHROOMS. Next answer Questions: 1. Is there any significance to 'no tea'? 2. What the Zark is the thing my aunt gave me which I don't know what it is? 3. Is the Hitchhiker's Guide important? 4. What is the Thumb? How does it work? Is it important? 5. Is the Engineer robot important? 6. What's all this nonsense about fluff? 7. What do I do about the plant? 8. What are all these tools scattered throughout the game? 9. What is the goal of the game? 10. How can I read the footnotes? Play Edition One Play Edition Two Introduction - How to Play the Game Game Hints Index Why Two Editions? The History of the Game Building the New Edition Interview with Steve Meretzky Back to top LISTEN LIVE Audio Help QUANDARY AND QUINTESSENTIAL PHASES Picture Gallery Audio Trailer TERTIARY PHASE Picture Gallery Audio Trailer ADVENTURE GAME  winning illustrations Nolan Worthington Andrew Wyld Roger Smith Artist Profiles GUIDES TO THE GUIDE Radio 1 Documentary: Listen Again BBC News Guide THE MOVIE Hitchhhiker's Guide Movie website Buy recordings of the series from the BBC Shop The new series are Above the Title Productions The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites

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