So much to choose from, but we have a tie. Agatha's Folly and Behind Closed Doors jointly take the top place with 3 votes each.
Every other vote - literally one each - has ensured a joint second place for The House On The Tor; Murder - He Said; One Of Our Wombats Is Missing; Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberley Mystery and The Taxman Cometh.
Now, I don't like leaving the top spot to a tie, so what I normally do is consult the proportional results, and surely, as those two games are so popular, one of them has to be clearly at the top or maybe there's a tie there, let's see...
One Of Our Wombats Is Missing 5
Murder - He Said 4
House On The Tor, The 3
Balrog And The Cat, The 2
Murder Hunt II 2
Agatha's Folly 1
Thirty-Nine Steps, The 1
...Oh. Something completely different is at the top and Behind Closed Doors isn't even listed! I mean, that's rare, but certainly within the rules.
Of course, I haven't taken in
@hitm4n's
comment as there wasn't really an unambigous third choice, but if we take his #3 to be Balrog And The Cat, and throw all that in, then we have proportional results along the lines of:
One Of Our Wombats Is Missing 5
Murder - He Said 4
Agatha's Folly 3
Balrog And The Cat, The 3
Behind Closed Doors 3
House On The Tor, The 3
Murder Hunt II 2
Thirty-Nine Steps, The 1
Now, as to what the SpectrumComputing electorate believes the best Zenobi Software game to be, hmm... It's still rather inconclusive.
Yes, you could say it's One Of Our Wombats Is Missing. Or if you're in the Agatha's Folly/Behind Closed Doors camp, and you feel it should be one of those two, well, Agatha's Folly has come off the better of the two, even though it's not got higher than a third position overall!
I think, taking in the commitment of the proportional vote comments, that the winner should be One Of Our Wombats Is Missing, but I can certainly understand objections to this verdict. Yeah, call for a steward's enquiry I guess. Um, anyone got the steward's phone number?
I would put in a late proportional vote myself, but I've only seriously played Behind Closed Doors and Bulbo And The Lizard King. I have played a few others, like the next two Behind Closed Doors sequels, but can't really be that confident I can make an informed call on what my third-placed game would be.
It's mad isn't it, the Zenobi Software poll has been problematic from the start, with too many games to be listed, and so I had to put in the elimination ro... WAIT A MINUTE... I could count the ones from those two polls and find out the top game...
Well, Agatha's Folly was the only game to get 5 votes in that stage, that's the highest. Behind Closed Doors got 4 votes, but then so did many others: Murder He Said; One Of Our Wombats Is Missing; Retarded Creatures And Caverns and Sherlock Holmes: Lamberley Mystery. Again, this confirms that Agatha's Folly does beat Behind Closed Doors, but, taking in the proportional votes, does it really top One Of Our Wombats Is Missing?
Wherever the Rochdale Balrog is now, I wonder if he's looking down and laughing about this futile and convoluted attempt to find the best Zenobi game. [blasphemy]Perhaps it's A Stroll In The Bleak Forest, the only game in our shortlist that's not an actual text adventure![/blasphemy]
If anyone does want to try Nether Regions then I think I added a bunch of QoL stuff and other fixes in the more recent DAAD version.