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I noticed that the site went to use HTTPS.
So if your browser does not allow to load unencrypted content on encrypted pages screen shots will not load.

So I'm stuck What shall I do?

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Maybe you should go back to town and have a good look around?

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I believe I am pretty close to

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the end of the game. I am inside the tomb and trying to figure out how to get to the golden object. I have already pushed the block on a tile near the object and I got it to come down but I can't figure out how to stop making the tiles pop back up every time I take a step.

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The small and big arrows on the tiles give a little hint to solving the puzzle.

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I started on the leftmost marked tile

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I have two technical problems with the game:
1. The window is too wide for my screen: This can be mitigated by running the game in full screen mode.
2. A left mouse button click skips more than one page of text. If I keep the button pressed all texts and actions zap by after one another. This makes the game impossible to play.

Could not complete it, because

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after Ivan changed his underwear I could not continue, as I got the same dialogue as before ("...do as she says..."). Running on Linux with ags 3.3.5.5 and 3.3.0.1162 though, so perhaps it is a engine error.

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I can confirm the mouse update problem for ags 3.3.5.3 on Linux in windowed mode with the game Mudlarks v1.6 but it works fine in full screen mode. The game Pendek works fine in windowed mode tough.

The point is that there's nothing the player can do such as not touch the cable
or some other action to PREVENT the death. When I said "random" I didn't mean
it literally.

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The bot can stop the leak before the player goes to rest. Click on the pipe near the hole.

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I would not use a bug tracker to report bugs if I had to register yet another account for it.

The graphics are very bland and do not give much information about what and where is what. The player has to look at the room to get some information about the surroundings, like for example when looking at the bridge Lydia mentions some invisible threads that prevent people from falling of the bridge - this is actually quite funny.
There are some bugs:

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• The walking speed is too slow and cranking the speed lever up makes it even slower.
• I could walk through the scrap on the wall without needing to solve the associated puzzle.
• I would not have found the crypt without the walk-trough, as clicking use/walk on the visual clue of the arch did not make Lydia walk there, but clicking on the wall did.

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Why can I not open the safe with the opening date code?

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These locks are a bit more special than one might expect, but it worked when I followed some instructions.

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This combination of rendered objects with digitised images is executed in a manner that is the best I have seen in a free game so far.
The puzzles are a bit hard in the beginning due to technical omissions but later on they are fun to solve (piece of cake if you won Zak McKracken!). Beware of spelling errors and and bad grammar!

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How do I find the expert to ask for the Valley of Fire? Nevermind, I found it: You need to search for 'book of thoth' (all lower case) in the 'Internet'.

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What else do I need to go to Egypt?
I xeroxed the journal,
looked at the Eye of Horus with the magnifying glass,
translated the name of the city on the back of the picture,
have all the stuff from my house Never mind, I found it: I had to look up the valley of nobles  in the internet.

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How to get the

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design from the cabinet?Never mind, I found it

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I could handle the asteroids when I discovered that I could use the cursor keys to navigate the jar.

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When I tried to get the USB cable I got the impression that a further distraction on top of the first would be necessary and looked for something to no avail. I did not expect to only have be switching between walking, aiming at the cable and interact with the cable, because I presumed this to be an adventure game.

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From the previous experiences I expected in the final fight to have to aim and fire the laser at the Master, but as much as I wished for it, it was just a cutscene.

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While this episode keeps up with the quality of the previous games of the series the action game parts in the beginning where just annoying and spoilt it somewhat.