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King's Quest I Hints
What's this gnome's name?
1 of 8: Fairy tales come into play here.
2 of 8: Some queen had to play a guessing game to get her baby back from a straw-to-gold spinning gnome.
3 of 8: What was that gnome's name?
4 of 8: Rumplestiltskin, I believe.
5 of 8: But that isn't the gnome's name.
6 of 8: Did you read the note in the witch's house?
7 of 8: Sometimes it IS better to think backwards.