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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hints
How do I use the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
1 of 16: Phrase your requests: "CONSULT GUIDE ON EARTH".
2 of 16: If you want to check a footnote: "FOOTNOTE 1"
3 of 16: Be sure to check on the references to Tea, Improbability, etc.
4 of 16: Why not read ALL the footnotes?
5 of 16: Some entries: Alcohol, Atomic Vector Plotter, Babel Fish, Damogran...
6 of 16: More entries: Earth, Fluff, France, Galactic Security, Agency...
7 of 16: More entries: Galaxia Woonbeam, Green Button, Heart of Gold...
8 of 16: More entries: Infocom, Brownian Motion, Genuine People Personalities...
9 of 16: More entries: Magrathea, Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Improbability drives...
10 of 16: More entries: Intelligence, Large Plug, Long Dangly Bit...
11 of 16: More entries: Matter Transference Beam, Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster...
12 of 16: More entries: Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, Protein, Nutrimat...
13 of 16: More entries: Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, Red Button...
14 of 16: More entries: Santraginean Mineral Water, Sirius Cybernetics Corp...
15 of 16: More entries: Small Plug, Small Recepticle, Space, Thumb, Towel...
16 of 16: More entries: Vogon Poetry, Vogons, Walking, all the tools and weapons.