Castle
The Castle is a special level just above The Valley Of The Dead. The stairs up are always on the left side of the level, where there's a small maze. The middle part of the level contains the castle, surrounded by a moat. One of the four corner rooms contains a chest containing a wand of wishing. The floor and the walls are undiggable, and the only way down is through the trap doors in the castle. If you fill the trap doors, you need to level teleport down.
The map of the castle (with the random mazes removed) looks like:
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The # at the front of the castle is the drawbridge. One way to open it is to play a game of "mastermind" with it. The hero must use an instrument and be standing a knight's move from the drawbridge. Applying the insturment, the player must guess the 5 note combination to open the drawbridge. The different notes you can play are A, B, C, D E, F, and G. Once you get the right combination, the drawbridge opens and you can cross the moat. You may close the drawbridge by playing the passtune again, to crush some monsters that happen to be on it. Zapping the open drawbridge with a wand of striking will smash it to pieces, also tearing apart any monster - or player - currently standing on it.
Other way inside the castle is through the back door. It is accessible by crossing the moat via Levitation (preferably ring) or freezing the water (with Wand of Cold or Cone of Cold spell). Other way is level teleporting down to Valley of the Dead, and take the stairs up, which will bring you to the other side of the castle.
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