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From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
xyzzy
/X?Y?Z?Z?Y/, /X?Y?ziz'ee/, /ziz?ee/, /ik?ziz?ee/, adj.
[from the ADVENT game] The canonical ?magic word?. This comes from {
ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many
rooms and to collect the treasures you find there. If you type xyzzy at the
appropriate time, you can move instantly between two otherwise distant
points. If, therefore, you encounter some bit of magic, you might remark
on this quite succinctly by saying simply ?Xyzzy!? ?Ordinarily you can't
look at someone else's screen if he has protected it, but if you type
quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you do it anyway.? ?Xyzzy!? It's
traditional for xyzzy to be an Easter egg in games with text interfaces.
Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on
several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically
respond ?Nothing happens?, just as ADVENT did if the magic was invoked at
the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the
word. In more recent 32-bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds ?Twice as
much happens?.
Early versions of the popular ?minesweeper? game under Microsoft Windows
had a cheat mode triggered by the command ?xyzzy