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About the game
The story is told in short chapters, each unlocked by solving a puzzle: word searches, jigsaws, cryptograms, card games and stranger things.
As you go, the pieces of the scrambled map come together, and the final meta-puzzle ties everything you have seen into one satisfying whole.
History
Created by Cliff Johnson and released for the Macintosh in 1987, then ported to DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
Johnson later made it available as shareware in 2002, and then free of charge. A sequel, The Fool and His Money, arrived in 2012.
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