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:xyzzy: /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-zizee/, /zizee/, or /ik-zizee/ /adj./ [from the ADVENT game] The canonical magic word. This comes from ADVENT, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there. If you type xyzzy at the appropriate time, you can move instantly between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you encounter some bit of magic, you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy!" "Ordinarily you cant look at someone elses screen if he has protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you do it anyway." "Xyzzy!" Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several OSes; in Data Generals AOS/VS, for example, it would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as ADVENT did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. In more recent 32-bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens". The popular minesweeper game under Microsoft Windows has a cheat mode triggered by the command xyzzy<enter><right-shift> that turns the top-left pixel of the screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor is over a bomb.
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