Asking "which do you mean" includes objects not in the room

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Folks -

I have a rather large game (250 rooms) and there are 8 buttons of different colors that occur in different places. These are usually scenery, although I have replicated the problem even if they are defined as being part of other items that are fixed in place in a given room.

When in a room where there are no buttons to push, if I type “push button” I will get a list of all the items asking me to clarify. Notwithstanding that the buttons aren’t in the room to begin with and this gives parts of the game away. I believe I’ve seen this happen with other objects upon occasion but I can’t replicate that problem at the moment.

I used the SCOPE debugger and confirmed that the objects are not in scope.

Any thoughts on what could be going wrong and what I should do to stop this?

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Have you redefined the push action or grammar?

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Aah…interesting. I hadn’t modified the grammar of the “push” command. But as there are other items that need to be pushed around in the game rather than pressed like a button, I did have the line"

Understand “move [any thing]” as pushing it.

I have now changed this to

Understand “move [something]” as pushing.

It appears to have solved the problem. Thanks!

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That “any” was the problem, yes.

Note that the standard library already defines “move” as the pushing action. You don’t have to add that synonym.