PESACH Inform text adventure part of Disk 1071 (PC), part of Disk 1124 (ST) A Review by Peter Clark Pesach is a game that has been written for Jewish children. It was because of this that I as an adult Gentile found this game very difficult to play. The game takes place on the night before Pesach which, I believe is the festival of the Jewish Passover. It is the custom for Jewish children to search the house looking for pieces of Chametz or leaven food that have been hidden by the parents and remove these from the house before the festival begins. Certain prayers and blessings have to be said at the appropriate time and place during the search. The game is fairly small, only fourteen locations, and all but five of these are within the house. The puzzles that you would normally find in a text adventure are simple and only a matter of finding an oil can for a stuck door and a light for a dark room etc. The real problem is a lack of knowledge of the Jewish faith and tradition because, although I managed to find what I thought were quite a lot of pieces of Chametz, the game has a time limit of 100 moves and the best I ever scored when I ran out of time was five out of a possible eighty. I could do no better even after mapping the game and starting from scratch. The game seems to be well written and I could find nothing in the way of spelling mistakes or bugs but I'm afraid that unless you have a working knowledge of this particular Jewish Festival or wish to spend a lot of time in research, then I think that you would find the game very difficult to get on with. - o -