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I've found the online walkthrough but there are still a couple of things that I don't quite get...

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It says that when you come back across the bridge after talking to the Door of Destiny, that you should pick up the paper on the ground. I don't see any paper there.

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I haven't found Possum's basket... is this in a particular place, or does it show up somewhere randomly?

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OK, I've nearly finished the game!

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How do you get out of the caves?

I can't climb out the way I came in. I tried going back to an earlier saved game and getting the rope from the well, but it just fell into the water.

I suppose you have to go through the small hole to the west of the throne room, but I don't see an Alice in Wonderland-style potion to shrink me.

I've tried two ways of getting rid of the leprechauns (clover, fiddle) and picked up both items they left behind.

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OK... I've figured it out.

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Alice in Wonderland it was! There was something I had forgotten.

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Finished! 147 out of 158.

Of course - that makes sense. I've got rid of her now. Thanks.

That's great, thanks.

Thanks.

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I'm thinking pebbles, I'm thinking cauldron.

If I go into the witch's house, she turns me into a gingerbread man. Putting on the invisibility ring first doesn't help.

If she swoops down on me on her broomstick, I get killed. If I quickly put on the invisibility ring, she doesn't see me, but she's off before I can do very much.

Throwing the pebbles doesn't seem to do much more than reducing their number in my inventory.

I can go into the witch's house when she's out, but when she comes back, there's trouble.

I need to get the witch into the cauldron, I suppose, but how?

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Following from the previous post:

* It's advisable to scan the unzipped files for viruses. Games should be virus-free, but it's always a good idea to scan any executable you download from the Internet.
* Run the winsetup.exe file to choose things like whether to run the game full-screen or in a small or medium-sized window, whether to use a translation into another language, if any such translation is available, etc. Then click on "Save and run" to start the game. Alternatively, you can save the settings and then run the executable by double clicking on exe file for the game, as Guvnah Sammeh Skizzahs says.

Hopefully that should make everything clear.

Hm, I'm not sure which is the best forum to ask this, so I'll ask it here: have the awards for the best games of 2006 been announced yet? If so, where? Or is it just that award-winning games get icons alongside them but there is no list of all the winners published anywhere?

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OK, thank you for the feedback. I didn't realise it had been done in only a couple of days. Sorry if I sounded too harshly critical. I was just a bit frustrated at not being able to progress with the game.

I've finished it now. There was something I hadn't picked up.

Dave and I never got any reply on this... can anyone help out?

Thanks for the tips.

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I have the protection spell (which I've already used) and the invisibility ring.

The witch is still around but I was able to search her house because I was using the protection spell when I went it. She decided to go out.

Ah, it's interesting what you say about the cauldron. That would match up with Hansel and Gretel (although it was an oven in the original story).

Do I still need to get rid of her? She's being a nuisance at the moment in that sometimes she swoops down on her broomstick and captures me.

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ankewl, razz

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It's been a long time since I played this game, but if I remember correctly, you have to earn it by doing something for him. Don't ask me what - I don't remember.

Or have you already done what he wanted you to do? I think he gives it to you automatically when you tell or show him that you've done what he wanted, or given him what he wanted.

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No doubt someone who has played the game more recently will be able to give you a better answer.

Yep, there's definitely a bug with the snow... I was inside the castle, and it was still snowing. It snowed all through the final credits, too.

But an excellent game all the same. Well done!

Phew, I made it through in the end.

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Once you are behind the stalagmites at the top left, you need to move westwards pretty much, until you go off the end of the screen, where you will end up on a fairly straight section along the top of the screen. There are two more screens after that, but the first screen is the hardest.

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Turning the brightness on my monitor up to maximum also helped a little

Hurray! I've finished it. 188 out of 210 - not bad.

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It's the wooden walkway inside the cave in the mountains. When get near the back, there is a section that goes behind some stalagmites so you can't see where you are walking.

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But for now I'm

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trying to get into the castle. I would have thought I could transform into a fly and get in that way, but that doesn't work. Teleporting doesn't either.

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Thanks, sthomannch. I'm intrigued...

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No, I didn't kill the witch.

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Someone else has turned up and given me something else that might be useful. I'm not sure where I might use it yet, though.

I'm wondering what to do now. I think I'll just wander around for a bit and see what else happens.

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I tried flying and I wasn't allowed to do that either.

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Aha, I've found

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somewhere else I can go before I go into the cave. Maybe I'll find a torch or something.

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I haven't been able to get access to this site all day today, and funnily enough I've progressed well beyond the answers to the hints that have been posted since I last looked without needing the help that these hints provide. But thanks for posting them anyway - I'm sure they'll be useful to someone else.

One thing that really helped was reading the articles in Wikipedia for the various fairy tales that the game alludes to.

Now I'm curious to know

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how I can get the axe from outside the woodcutter's cottage so I can chop down the beanstalk, which I presume I need to do as per that particular fairy tale.

Shortly after my last posting, I was visited by someone who helped me get rid of the witch. I was then able to feed the woodcutter's wife and get into Cloud Land, which I got back from the safe way and the way that killed me off.

I have the fiddle (hm, that suggests a nursery rhyme, but I haven't seen the animal that goes with the the musical instrument...) but haven't played it to anyone who might want to listen yet. I'll give that a go.

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VGA.

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I've found the gnome, but reading the hints in the older thread, it looks like I have to get rid of the witch first.

I've sorted the troll out. I've got the bowl... not sure what I'm supposed to do with it though.

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Thanks.

Thanks, thewalrus, that answered one of my later questions.

Any hints (not answers, please) on the following?

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How do I cross the river to get to the mushroom?

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What is the goat for? He always wanders off if I take him more than a few rooms away from his pen.

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What can I feed the woodcutter's wife?

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What do I give the troll so I can cross the bridge? I lose points if I give him something valuable. He doesn't disturb me if I cross the stone bridge - I suppose that is the answer.

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Thanks for any hints (again, no outright answers, please).