Crescent. As played in Zork Zero, cards appear in 15 numbered suits (Books, Bugs, Ears, Faces, Fromps, Hives, Inkblots, Lamps, Mazes, Plungers, Rain, Scythes, Time, Tops and Zurfs) with ranks from 0 (called "Naught"), 1 ("Singled"), 2 ("Doubled"), 3 ("Trebled"), up to 9, and infinity ("Infinite"). There are nine additional cards, like Major Arcana or "Trumps" in Tarot, which are unranked: Granola, the Lobster, the Snail, the Jester, Time, Light, Beauty, Death, and the Grue. It is possible to get four copies of the same card in a four-card hand. To win the Double Fanucci mini-game, the player must use an unbeatable strategy mentioned only in the calendar feelie's biography of Babe Flathead. Otherwise, the mini-game will continue until when the score of the player or the jester exceeds 1241 points, but "by Rules Committee Amendment #493, the game is suspended and must be replayed in its entirety, except during a Frotz Moon or in a six-player game where at least three of the players are of Mithican ancestry." Double Fanucci cards were featured prominently in the browser-based game Legends of Zork, drawn by artist Greg Brown and colored by Jim "Zubby" Zubkavich. Dave Howell has created a physical deck of "Deluxe" Fanucci cards along with some other (playable) games to go with them. Reception Dave Arneson gave Zork Zero a favorable review in Computer Gaming World, calling it the best of the series to date. He praised the in-game map and help system, and later described the game as superior to Infocom's James Clavell's Shōgun. NotesZork Zero was also included in the 1991 collection The Lost Treasures of Infocom, and in the 1996 collection Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, released by Activision under the Infocom brand. The jester in Zork Zero will sometimes say So long, and thanks for all the fish, a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', which was also adapted as an eponymous Infocom video game. References External links Zork Zero information and overview (archived) Zork Zero - Adventure Classic Gaming Game Overview & Gallery The Infocom Bugs List entry for Zork Zero Infocom Cabinet: Zork Zero 1980s interactive fiction 1988 video games Adventure games Amiga games Apple II games DOS games Fantasy video games Infocom games Classic Mac OS games Steve Meretzky games Video game prequels Games commercially released with DOSBox Video games developed in the United States Zork Single-player video games