[Neil44]

I would get these from the library one after the other, I had to use pencil in the character sheet so I could rub everything out before I returned it. I remember keeping bookmark-fingers in as many pages as I could in case I had taken a wrong turn of inevitable death. Good times.

[raphman]

A friend and me played these books together. We printed our own character sheets so that we wouldn't have to write into the book.

As we already had this book-independent character sheet, we decided to re-use it for the next book, carrying over all inventory and stats from the previous book, amassing a huge hoard of useful items during our journey across books.

One could call this 'cheating' - but it made the game much more fun and creative for us. What I hated about the books was that you could take a wrong turn at the beginning of the book, only to realize this at the end. "If you have a small silver key and a rope, continue on page 33, if not: you die.". Of course we got the key - we collected a few of them in previous books. And the whip we got in another book should work as a rope, too.