Commands
In the Zork games, the player is not limited to verb-noun commands, such as "take lamp", "open mailbox", and so forth. Instead, the parser supports more sophisticated sentences such as "put the lamp and sword in the case", "look under the rug", and "drop all except lantern". The game understands many common verbs, including "take", "drop", "examine", "attack", "climb", "open", "close", "count", and many more. The games also support commands to the game directly (rather than taking actions within the fictional setting of the game) such as "save" and "restore", "script" and "unscript" (which begin and end a text transcript of the game text), "restart", and "quit".
In all of the Zork text adventures, the following commands apply:
> n, s, e, w
- Short for "go north", "go south", etc.
> nw, ne, sw, se
- Short for "go northwest", "go southwest", etc.
> u and d
- Short for "go up" and "go down"
> i
- Reveals a player's inventory
> verbose
- Gives full descriptions after each command (rather than omitting details already given to the player)
> score
- Displays the player's current score, number of moves, and ranking
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