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Does anybody know where I can find the book "How to Win at Double Fanucci?" I know it exists, but I can't find it anywhere. Maybe it's inside an INFOCOM game like the original Encyclopedia Frobozzica in Spellbreaker...
Nerd42

Just found this:
http://www.mivonks.com/words/fanucci/intro.html

Also, on this page:
http://www.mrbillsadventureland.com/amusing/funthings/zorkF/zgiF.htm

Item 18 reads: cast KENDALL on the How to Win at Double Fanucci book.

This would imply that the book is just a prop in the ZGI game.

The only place I saw the title was from this quote here:

http://quendor.robinlionheart.com/spells.xhtml
"If you continue to lose after he [or she] re-turns [sic], the authors suggest a mild “Bayala” spell of bodily deformation, to remove the opponents [sic] hands in the altogether [sic], so that though he or she might object somewhat strenuously to your cheating, ultimately, his [or her] hands will be tied. Or simply grafted to his [or her] head." - How to Win at Double Fanucci

Nerd42

Never mind. Lionheart gave a screenshot to me. What happens when you KENDALL it?

Nerd42

The tome in question is indeed from ZGI; it's located in one of the lockers at GUE Tech, unless I'm mistaken.

Opening up and reading the book reveals complete circumlocutive gibberish about drawing and discarding and such; the rules to Double Fanucci are, as everyone knows, not simple.

Casting KENDALL, the spell to simplify directions, on the (otherwise utterly incomprehensible) book reveals a sequence of actions you must perform later in the game--I think it's the order in which you need to use the machines in the Spell Lab. What this has to do with Double Fanucci, I'm not certain.

You should give ZGI a run sometime, if you haven't yet. It's got a lot of distinctively Zorkian humor to it. The wealth of inside jokes, though, are probably more than a little responsible for the game's poor sales.

**Frobozz Node #79**

I wanna get ZGI. I've got ZTUU, and I'm gonna buy ZGI eventually. I've got other stuff to buy first though.

Nerd42