Comments on: It Might Just Exist: The Fool & His Money

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:46:23 +0000

I had Fool’s Errand for my Amiga and loved it. It was a refreshing change from other games. I am a true believer… I only hope the game turns up before I go in an old folk’s home and still have my marbles!

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:59:31 +0000

I really loved The Fool’s Errand, but I finished it in a single day (and before you ask, I only had to look up the solution for one single puzzle – and it was one of the early ones – that kept me stumped for a couple of hours). Hopefully this will be longer (and harder).

By: suibhne

suibhne — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:42:52 +0000

I played The Fool’s Errand for years when I was an adolescent and absolutely adored it. Even when I wasn’t in the mood for the rest of the game, or had already solved it, I’d go back and play the card game. It remains one of my favorite gaming titles, and possibly the smartest.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:43:58 +0000

I’ve had a rummage through System’s Twilight today and yesterday, and while it has a lot of good puzzles, it does to tend to just make them longer and longer – one of it’s ‘drop the ball/take the ball’ puzzles has a 100 actions in its solution! Which in fairness is a artifact of when it was made, but it’s one of the things that Fools Errand improved by discarding.

Also I prefer the Fool’s Errand artstyle, though System’s Twilight is very distinctive – before I read a word of text I was thinking “Oh yeah, I have played this!” – and I can imagine people preferring it instead.

By: solipsistnation

solipsistnation — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:11:02 +0000

@Gnarl: Aye, a site for Scottish gamers indeed. Here, I’ve got my kilt and everything. And some whisky.

@Jim: I liked System’s Twilight, but it was a little less consistent than Cliff Johnson’s. I seem to recall a couple of puzzles that seemed kind of _off_ (I don’t remember exactly how at the moment since it’s been years), but overall it was definitely worth playing.

By: daysocks

daysocks — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:16:16 +0000

:O:O:O:O

I had no idea there was a sequel. ilu for telling me about it <3

By: Igor Hardy

Igor Hardy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:22:35 +0000

I still haven’t recovered from the mental damage that was done to me by the first game.

By: Gabanski83

Gabanski83 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:30:36 +0000

I still have the disk version of The Fool’s Errand on Amiga kicking around here somewhere. Some of those puzzles are mental.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:49:43 +0000

@Jon: I’m sure that like in the original, all the chapters will be revisited again once the map is complete.

@Matt: I’m fairly certain that 11 is counting each of the chapters multiple times, as some of them have multiple similar puzzles.

I’m trying not to get too excited about this, because there have been so many false starts, but I can’t really help it: Fool’s Errand is for me the Ur-puzzler, the one that was never bettered.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:33:07 +0000

Any fan of these games who hasn’t played Andrew Plotkin’s (now freeware) style-homage is missing out — it’s as good as Johnson’s own (I’d say even better).

By: postx

postx — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:49:20 +0000

I like the demo. Plays like reading a fairy tale and I feel younger.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:45:10 +0000

Is there anything to do in the demo after the puzzle where you type in words with matching prefix & suffixes? “Zopma rlf” appeared, and the help text implies there’s more, but I can’t seem to do anything…