When I first played this game with a friend of mine back in 1991 we also became stuck on a puzzle that required “A cart load of ore”. For many months we could not figure out what to do as we would get a cart and place ore in it but the game would continually request a cart load of ore! Months later I just happened to place a second load of ore into the cart and clicked on the cart to discover “A cart with 2 ore”. After placing a third we had a cart load of ore and could finally progress and end up completing the game.
To this day (2008) my friend and I colloquially refer to stubborn problems as “A Cart Load of Ore”.
Warren just laughed after meeting him at GDC06 and telling him the tale.
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