{"id":597,"date":"2011-05-18T01:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2011-05-18T01:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:07:28","slug":"oops-i-dont-have-my-cashcard-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Oops! I don&#039;t have my CashCard here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that a lot of readers of pagetable.com are fans of SCUMM games like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=591\">Maniac Mansion<\/a> (and at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=591&#038;cpage=1#comment-104717\">one<\/a> is their creator). Here is a puzzle for you (credits go to <a href=\"http:\/\/black-sheep-software.de\/\">Bernhard Bauer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>In Zak McKracken, how can you get into the situation pictured below? Note that you need the CashCard in order to leave San Francisco, and Zak cannot give away his CashCard.<\/p>\n<p>C64:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"docs\/cashcard\/cashcard_c64.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/cashcard\/cashcard_c64.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>FM Towns:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"docs\/cashcard\/cashcard_256.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/cashcard\/cashcard_256.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bonus points if you solve it by converting the SCUMM script into a graph and programmatically finding the shortest path to this state.<\/p>\n<p>(Read the solution in the comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that a lot of readers of pagetable.com are fans of SCUMM games like Maniac Mansion (and at least one is their creator). Here is a puzzle for you (credits go to Bernhard Bauer): In Zak McKracken, how can you get into the situation pictured below? Note that you need the CashCard in order &#8230; <a title=\"Oops! I don&#039;t have my CashCard here.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=597\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oops! I don&#039;t have my CashCard here.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-hacks","category-puzzle","category-scumm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}