To: nethack@gmx.de (Sascha) Subject: Re: bones identification From: Yair Friedman Date sent: 08 Jun 1998 13:39:15 +0300 BTW I read your (Kevin's) gems spoiler, and was surprized not to find my partial method of identifying gems. Bottom of mines: before getting the luckstone clear all your main inventory from gems (Bag/drop), the mines allways has 2 amethyst (soft violet), 2 diamonds (hard white), 3 emerald (hard green) and 2 rubies (hard red) as well as 7 other random gems. This is usually enough to identify these 4 gems. The new version has the diamonds in the NW corner with 2 other ramdom gems, 1 emerald 1 ruby and 2 random gems in the SW corner, 2 emeralds and 2 random gems in the NE corner, the luckstone with ruby 2 amethyst and one random gem in the SE cornet. -- Yair.