Hehe. 
On second though I probably wasted at least as much time this way as by gifting her an expensive ticket.
Edit: Didn’t Zak get only $1000 for the bent knife?
And it even rhymes when you speak it out loud! 
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he got $1500. Are you suggesting that Lou is a positive sex discriminator?
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Hash Zak? 
Pound Zak?
Perhaps if you translate it from Dutch? Weed bag? nope still not rhyming…
I’ll have to reload my save or watch my own archival stream later to check. I dunno, I thought he got $1000. 
I think it’s more of an internal rhyme (HashTag Zak).
Gonna take a break from Zak now that I’ve seen my favorite part in VGA.
The nerve of some beings!
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I am curious what that looks like.
Did you get any of the face?
Your face did not get any snips of the face on mars before turning off his computer and going…
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Well I didn’t yet see the dance, one of the trickier puzzles in the game for me because it didn’t click when he said that thing. Unless that’s not randomly generated. 
Agree. I was stuck there the first time I’ve played Zak. I reloaded the game several times, I wrote down every move. Until one night, when I was in my bed, alone (that’s true, really!), the solution came into my mind…
…because each brown man is placed in the same order as the Mars giant door’s buttons, and, most important… the sound produced when they go down, is the same as the door’s buttons. It was that particular thing that unblocked me!
And yes, the dance is randomly generated each time you restart the game.
Every Lucas* adventure (or better, Ron/Gary/David adventure) has this feature, from Maniac Mansion to Thimbleweed Park: every code, name, drawing, something that could be written down in a walkthrough, compromising the puzzle, is randomly generated.
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I also reloaded it a few times to write it down in detail. I was particularly concerned with the red herring of how many circles and stuff like that. It was basically process of elimination, and yes, combined with a night’s sleep or two.
The circle thing in particular led me on some wild goose chases through the jungles.
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The music of this game is so great.
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Is this maze people are talking about the one in Mexico? With the statue and crystal shard?
Aye._
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Aha. I got very excited until I realise I clearly need something else to solve the drawing. Oh well, somehow I got through the maze really quickly so not soooo bad that I need to do it again (and I’ll map it this time) 
Is it possible to go back to an old save game to work out what I need to draw, then revert back to this save? I’m guessing that’s too easy and that it requires actually picking something up.