Many years ago I was playing Kings Quest III by Sierra, young Gwydion was stuck in the wizard's spell making area and kept getting killed regardless of what I did. That night I dreamt of a possible solution....
...Unfortunately it was so out of context and unrealistic there was no way I could expect the text parser to understand it, and it didn't.
However I did find an interesting problem with the game - if you turned the music off it caused the evil Wizard, whatever his name was I don't remember, to appear more quickly than he otherwise should and you would fail. Made playing the game at night awkward when everyone else wanted to sleep as it used the PC speaker and as far as I remember there was no volume control.
...Unfortunately it was so out of context and unrealistic there was no way I could expect the text parser to understand it, and it didn't.
However I did find an interesting problem with the game - if you turned the music off it caused the evil Wizard, whatever his name was I don't remember, to appear more quickly than he otherwise should and you would fail. Made playing the game at night awkward when everyone else wanted to sleep as it used the PC speaker and as far as I remember there was no volume control.