Xyzzy Award Award Winner
Xyzzy Awards: Best Puzzles, 2001

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"A good old-fashioned puzzle-filled IF experience."   --Adam Myrow, SPAG

"an old-school puzzle romp with a touch of wry self-mockery... I don't believe I have
encountered any in which the time travel implications are so extensively implemented."   --Emily Short


About the Game

You've just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel machine. Tonight, for some reason, you're especially fatigued, and can't wait to get inside and go right to bed. Seems like a good plan, but somehow you have a premonition it's not going to be that easy...

Download and play First Things First

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