Achievement: "A Pixel’s Prophecy"

[Rob-P]

How do you get this achievement? Apparently by "trying to cheat". There's an achievement for that? Why? This game is based on logic and reason... not cheating. At least I guess this is based on a direct action I have control over, versus my hated: 1-Click Wonder which is purely luck based. Any help on this would be appreciated (although now this is my 2nd most hated achievement in the game).

[PixelProphecy]

Hi Rob! I put that particular achievement in as a little Easter Egg, estimating that someone would find it eventually long after the game's release. In the end, it was more like a day or two ;)

Since I don't want to spoil anything for other players, I present you a few hints on how to obtain it, each one more specific than the previous one.

For very old-school gamers:
There's this magic word of Infocom…

For not that old-school gamers:
If you know how to cheat in Windows Minesweeper, chances are you know how to do it in Fine Sweeper.

Pretty straight forward:
During a level of Fine Sweeper, type the magic word followed by Shift+Enter.

Still confused?
The magic word is xyzzy.

Regardless, I am well aware that luck-based achievements are hated even more so than overly demanding "endurance"-type chievos, which FIne Sweeper also sports, I'm sure you know which I mean.

I can't take them out or lower their requirements because that would invalidate the efforts of all the players who spent countless hours of rote grinding to get them, but I know now very well what to avoid for my next game.

Thanks for playing! :)

[Rob-P]

Thanks! I played Zork on a Commodore-64, but never got into it too much. I also NEVER expected you to remove achivements, since those people who already got them deserve to keep them (I'm sure it took lots of work), Fantastic game! So much better than the windows versoin. I recommend this to my friends.

[DeRockProject (jongyon7192p)]

yeah if you have a steam achievement, 100%er groups will try to find it any way they can, even going into the code.

Figuring this out probably wasn't too difficult in comparison. lol