From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.games
Title: Re: question about the riddle room in zork
Article-I.D.: alice.857
Posted: Fri Aug 13 07:24:55 1982
Received: Sun Aug 15 06:16:43 1982


It has always worked for me to just says the answer.  i.e. just say:

where  is the answer to the riddle.