I think you're overestimating players here with text only game written in python, executable in terminal.

I don't feel that xkcd vibe here and you didn't even list what you based the game on. 

The game itself is ok I guess and I appreciate the effort, because I see that you wanted to make a good puzzle out of it,  but honestly if I am supposed to write notes on paper to finish a game, it's a pass from me.

Hint for other users: use python2 not 3