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* Polymorphing into a monster that can eat metal and eating a ''trident'' gives the message "[[IncrediblyLamePun That was pure chewing satisfaction]]." ([[spoiler:It's a reference to Trident Gum.]])

* Zapping a cream pie with a wand of striking gives the message "What a mess!" and destroys the cream pie.

* Speaking of amulets of magical breathing, the polar opposite is the amulet of strangulation, which kills you in five turns unless you can get it removed. But what about the "unbreathing" property (from equipping or eating an amulet of magical breathing, or polymorphed into a creature with the property)? The amulet strangles you ''anyway'' because the constricting action cuts off the blood supply to your brain!

* Speaking of amulets of magical breathing, the polar opposite is the amulet of strangulation. It kills you in five turns unless you can get it removed. But what about the "unbreathing" property (from equipping or eating an amulet of magical breathing, or polymorphed into a creature with the property)? The amulet strangles you ''anyway'' because the constricting action cuts off the blood supply to your brain!

* Speaking of amulets of magical breathing, the polar opposite is the amulet of strangulation. It kills you in five turns unless you have the "unbreathing" property (from equipping or eating an amulet of magical breathing, or polymorphed into a creature with the property)...in which then it strangles you ''anyway'' because the constricting action cuts off the blood supply to your brain!

* Speaking of amulets of magical breathing, the polar opposite is the amulet of strangulation. It kills you by strangulation in five turns unless you have the "unbreathing" property (from equipping or eating an amulet of magical breathing, or polymorphed into a creature with the property)...in which then it strangles you ''anyway'' because it's cutting off the blood supply to your brain!

* With some luck, it is possible to kill yourself on turn 1 (i.e. as a knight, slip off your saddled pony trying to mount it or zap an attack wand at yourself). The resulting message: [[{{Monopoly}} "Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 zorkmids."]]

* Vaults full of gold are occasionally found sealed off from most of the dungeon. If you connive your way inside, a vault guard will appear to investigate. In most cases, he'll demand your name; most answers will lead to the guard demanding you leave all the money behind in the vault as the guard seals it back up. If you tell the guard that you're [[spoiler:"Croesus" (alternate translations "Kroisos" and [[DiscWorld "Creosote"]] can be found acceptable as well)]], the guard will leave without incident. If you're a lawful-aligned character, you receive a small alignment penalty for lying, unless you actually named your character [[spoiler:Croesus]], in which case ''no penalty is incurred''. If you try to pass yourself off as [[spoiler:Croesus]] after [[spoiler:you've gone to Fort Ludios and killed him]], the guard gets angry and attacks. If you're unable to speak (i.e., an amulet of strangulation is choking you), the guard leaves. If you're mimicking an object (most likely having eaten a mimic's corpse, turning you into a ''pile of gold''), the guard also leaves. If hallucinating when you eat a mimic corpse, you turn into an orange. The guard leaves puzzled, wondering "who left that orange in here". And if you're polymorphed into a small enough monster, you can hide under the gold and puzzle the guard again.

* Vaults full of gold are occasionally found sealed off from most of the dungeon. If you connive your way inside, a vault guard will appear to investigate. In most cases, he'll demand your name; most answers will lead to the guard demanding you leave all the money behind in the vault as the guard seals it back up. If you tell the guard that you're [[spoiler:"Croesus" (alternate translations "Kroisos" and "Creosote" can be found acceptable as well)]], the guard will leave without incident. If you're a lawful-aligned character, you receive a small alignment penalty for lying, unless you actually named your character [[spoiler:Croesus]], in which case ''no penalty is incurred''. If you try to pass yourself off as [[spoiler:Croesus]] after [[spoiler:you've gone to Fort Ludios and killed him]], the guard gets angry and attacks. If you're unable to speak (i.e., an amulet of strangulation is choking you), the guard leaves. If you're mimicking an object (most likely having eaten a mimic's corpse, turning you into a ''pile of gold''), the guard also leaves. If hallucinating when you eat a mimic corpse, you turn into an orange. The guard leaves puzzled, wondering "who left that orange in here". And if you're polymorphed into a small enough monster, you can hide under the gold and puzzle the guard again.

* They even do this in the download! "Step 0: Promise to do step 2 befire telling us te game won't run. Thank you.

* "Thou hast angered me." If you anger a god enough to earn divine retribution, you will be zapped with a lightning bolt. If that fails, you are zapped with a wide-angle disintegration beam. If ''that'' fails, the god says "I believe it not!" (except in the final level, where it gets even angrier). Although you can survive these with a ring of shock resistance and black dragon scale mail (which provides disintegration resistance), you can also survive by being engulfed by a monster: the beams will hit the ''engulfing monster'' before they hit you. If the monster has shock resistance, it will even survive the lightning bolt, and then the disintegration beam will kill it, freeing you. After all of this, if you survive, you ''get experience points'' for having the guts to pull this off.

* "Thou hast angered me." The god zaps you with a fatal lightning bolt. If you are engulfed by a monster lacking shock-resistance, it dies. If you are not engulfed, and you have neither shock resistance nor reflection, you die. If you survive for any reason, "<god> is not deterred..." and the god zaps you with a wide-angle disintegration beam. If you are still engulfed and the monster lacks disintegration resistance, the monster dies. If you are not engulfed, and do not have disintegration resistance, you die. If you survive via disintegration resistance, "You bask in its black glow for a minute..." and the god says "I believe it not!" If you are on the Astral Plane, "Thou cannot escape my wrath, mortal! Destroy <playername>, my servants!" and three hostile minions are summoned.

* Polymorphing into a monster that can eat metal and eating a ''trident'' gives the message "[[IncrediblyLamePun That was pure chewing satisfaction]]."

* If you eat too much, you choke and die. Unless you're wearing an Amulet of Magical Breathing.

* Vaults full of gold are occasionally found sealed off from most of the dungeon. If you connive your way inside, a vault guard will appear to investigate. In most cases, he'll demand your name; most answers will lead to the guard demanding you leave all the money behind in the vault as the guard seals it back up. If you tell the guard that you're [[spoiler:"Croesus" (alternate translations "Kroisos" and "Creosote" can be found acceptable as well)]], the guard will leave without incident. If you're a lawful-aligned character, you receive a small alignment penalty for lying, unless you actually named your character [[spoiler:Croesus]], in which case ''no penalty is incurred''. If you try to pass yourself off as [[spoiler:Croesus]] after [[spoiler:you've gone to Fort Ludios and killed him]], the guard gets angry and attacks. If you're unable to speak (i.e., an amulet of strangulation is choking you), the guard leaves. If you're mimicking an object (most likely having eaten a mimic's corpse, turning you into a ''pile of gold''), the guard also leaves. That...is just about every single possible thing that could ever happen in that situation, and there's always some sort of answer for it.
** Not quite every thing. If hallucinating when you eat a mimic corpse, you turn into an orange. The guard leaves puzzled, wondering "who left that orange in here". And if you're polymorphed into a small enough monster, you can hide under the gold and puzzle the guard again.
* Polymorphing into a monster that can eat metal and eating a trident gives the message "That was pure chewing satisfaction."

* Naming your horse Shadowfax as a beginning knight make it unrideable. In fact you can kill yourself slipping off of it trying to ride it.
** You can fail to mount your horse in early levels. How you name your pet has no bearing on this.