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eratic,

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You need to use your xray vision on the letter to get another, then you can search the tree hole etc. Also the spider web in in the Shed, go left from reception, left past stairwell, through the backdoor and into the shed.

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desimaui,

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Sorry about previous hint, The silver wings are worth 20 so if you are 20 short I'm guessing you haven't given them to the King. Are they on the throne?

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Yeah, same problem here, I'm going to need another day to really get an entry in. Klaus ?

desimaui,

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You are missing the Ruby ring. If you look carefully at the berries, some of them are slightly different to the others.

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desimaui,

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Have you tried getting the gem without using the reed? To go underwater, use a reed (without the thorn attached) on the small lily pad. Also the purple monster can be useful for getting rid of unwanted inventory items.

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Winter_Stardust ,

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I think you need to talk to the hippy with the black board, then play dot-to-dot.

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Winter_Stardust ,

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Walk as far right right as you can, then wait a bit til the pig stops moving, then interact with the pigs head.

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Sir Alex,

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I think you overpaid for the umbralla. Go for the best deal you can.

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Correction, that 'should' just slow things down!

Here's what I did,
Turned off AVG Resident shield, saved game, whilst saving opened a browser on Compiled directory and held down F5 (repeatedly refresh), no problems.

Turned on AVG Resident shield, saved game, whilst saving opened a browser on Compiled directory and held down F5 (repeatedly refresh), system hangs during the creating exe part (ie. crawls to a unusable speed, requiring reboot).

Pretty conclusive.

Ok, I think it was AVG resident Shield that was causing the hanging.
Thanks all.
As an issue though, it might be prudent for AGS to save the executeable with a different extension and just rename it to an .exe after saving the game ?

desimaui,

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You need to drop the stone to the left of the second lily.

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desimaui,
reeds

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You need a stone to move the second lily pad.

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hankerchief

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You need to combine thread, thorn and reed to get the hankerchief

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desimaui,

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I did say don't forget the x-ray

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Lakerz and everyone,
Thanks for all the wonderful feedback. Basically not having a job and programming games for 25 years, means I'm quite fast, also Crave was only 3 weeks work, but still a lot of hours. I develop on the fly, sort of improvising the games as I go along, that way the puzzles tend to create themselves, probably bad but quick.
Think it = do it.

desimaui,

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Don't worry about the controls yet. You need to find the attic. And don't forget your x-ray vision.

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Stefano,
Music puzzle

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It's made a lot easier if you play along to the tune. Clicking the top and bottom 'play' buttons plays different notes regardless of the switch, so play along then use the switch to 'fix' the tune. Also it lets you get tunes wrong and only says so after the third tune, this bit got me.

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Hey, hurry up and finish chapter 3, great stuff.

Current compiled size is 200Mb, I've had same problem happen with a 50Mb game also. Game takes about 2 mins to save normally with constant disk thrashing. Once it goes wrong, the disk activity stops and not even the task manager can stop AGS, I have to turn computer off, though as I said I can close other programmes down but only very very slowly, and I've got 10Gb space free and no spyware programmes running.

Rosie,
Temperature

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When you click the lever you should be able to move it up and down, then click again to let go of it.

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Bugsy
'X'

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The X just marks where the gem was.

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Bugsy
Crown

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Try throwing something at it.

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I sorry but XP is a multi application environment, disk access is shared all the time. No other programmes I use has this behaviour. The intresting thing about the slow down is that the Hard Disk access light is OFF and it still crawls.