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> > > > Just for the heck of it, here's my inventory:
> > > > Leather Briefcase
> > > > / Supply Room Card
> > > > / Radio Receiver
> > > > / Washcloth
> > > > / Employment Papers
> > > > / Business Card
> > > > / Fire Extinguisher
> > > > / Plastic Cup
> > > > / I.D. Card
> > > > / Crowbar
> > > > / ISO Officer's Cap
> > > > / Round Pot
> > > > / Passcard (CQ60537)
> > > > / Light Tube
> > > > / Pet Snacks
> > > > / Small Mirror
> > > >
> > > > My solution for this whole business is to cut thru all confusion. I set the 1st 3 boosters E, the last 3 of them west. Then, I thoroughly screwed up the conduits. Finally, I QUIT! and went home to earth and watched a super-NOVA from the windows of my returning shuttle. ha ha ha.
> > > > I'm not an electrician, a scientist nor a mechanic. I have absolutely no sense of direction and get lost in my car whenever I try to go somewhere I've never driven before. Directions in "scientize' are over my MT head. HELP or I blow the whole Corelis out of the Sky. (Just kidding about the sabotage, serious about my lack of qualifications and totally frustrated!!!) Can't someone put it in simple layman's terms so even a numbskull like me has a chance? I read 50 or more posts and saw where people send e-mail addresses for a 'cheat sheet'. If a game is worth playing, one should be able to do so without cheating or give it up. Please Help with some plain talk. NORA
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> > > If you search the board for "booster" or "conduit" and go through the resulting posts, you'll see an entire range of help for both problems, rephrased in dozens of ways for each. There may even be exact answers in there if you look in the right place.
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> > > I don't send "cheat sheets" or maps to people by email, and I don't think those are necessary to finish any of the games. There are more than enough different explanations of things on the forum already.
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> > Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone. Just read (perhaps) too many 'solutions' to this 'booster' & conduit stuff and am more confused than when I started. Everytime I think 'AHHA, SO THAT'S IT!" I try it and nothing. I'll do some more hunting around in here. Just getting so I'm reading more in the hints than I'm playing the game. Most frustrating. Again, I apologize if I've offended. BTW. I think people have asked for solutions to be sent to their e-mail addresses. Not clear on if this has been done for these folks or not. I never said 'you' did such a thing. Nora
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> No, I wasn't offended. Also, on my part, I wasn't trying to suggest that it's not a good idea to post to the forum because of all the information already there. (Personally, if I were to get stuck in a new game to come out, I wouldn't read the posts about it, because I don't like even the small details getting spoiled.) I was just saying that information's there, in case you hadn't found the right posts yet.
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> Anyway, you have a point that reading too many posts on something can make it more confusing, so I've picked out just one on each that should help.
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> Boosters: http://www.rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=79485
> Conduits: http://www.rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=46747
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> The conduits post is rather long because it goes into careful detail about the problem, and it has some step-by-step hints about how to proceed, after the rules are explained.

Thanks so much for going to all this trouble. Tried a staggered approach to that conduit thing and really thought I had it for about a min. NOPE. Hope one of these will give me an idea where I'm going wrong. BTW, met a RINK in GOA and wanted a pet one for Christmas. That didn't work out, either. ha ha ha. TY again. Nora