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Petra,

@paolo

The only question of yours I may answer at the moment
and which cannot be found here yet is the one about the loose blue pipe..

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use the hacksaw to cut it

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Thanks, but...

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what hacksaw? Where do I get that from? No answers, just a hint, please.

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Paolo: If you'd read this thread before posting, you'd have seen we went through everything- in detail, even, in the first few pages. Just go back and read the beginning of the thread, you'll find everythind you need.

Well, you may say that, but I'm afraid I didn't... I'm not going to read all the spoilers either as most of them relate to things that come later.

Anyway, I've just realised that I can go back to gamma xis and there is lots to explore there, so I'm going to see what I can do there.

PS: I have:

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hammer, nail, sandwich, hook and line

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As is often the case, I seem to be stuck somewhere well before anyone else...

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I can't catch the butterfly because I can't get the net (it's too long to carry).

I don't know how to break off the short blue pipe.

I don't know where I can find a jar or glass to get water from the river.

I don't know how to divert the river into the other channel.

I don't know where I can find blades for the turbine.

I can't open the strongbox in the storehouse.

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I'm not asking much, am I?

Just a few hints, please, rather than outright answers.

Thanks.

Oh dear, I'm stuck near the beginning...

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The mush is sticking to the pan and needs to be stirred. I don't know how to get past this point.

I have the chess piece, the toy covered in saliva, Puggles' bowl, the weed-on gravel and the flowers. I know that I need to put the flowers back eventually, but there seems to be something else to do before that.

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Thanks.

Can someone tell me how to get the wirecutters to Defender? And how to I get the crate off the hook?

To get the crate off the hook, I think you have to do the following:

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Press the green button to raise the crate
Slide the trolley underneath the crate.
Press the green button to lower the crate on to the trolley.
Interact with the hook - the crate will come off.
Move the trolley away.

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...but I don't remember what I did, so this might not be quite right.

Great game, loved it... just about the right level of difficulty for me at least.

My only quibble (and it's a small one) is over Simon... he's supposed to be English, but he seems to use American expressions every now and again (maybe from all the time he's spent with Ben ). Fair enough, because we Brits pick up a lot of American vocabulary from all the American TV we get here. However, on the morning of day 3, when Ben says "See you later", Simon says "Ta". "Ta" means "thank you", not "goodbye". Perhaps he meant to say "Ta-ta".

Anyway, like I said, a minor quibble. I'm looking forward to case 6 (and still trying to find the Easter egg in case 5!)

Paul

Excellent game though it was heck easy. Didn't trigger the easter egg though.

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I found some flaws in the plot. For instance, wouldn't the Japanese already know that Fugu poisoning causes people to faint and get back up later? I read in Wiki that it's even a Japanese tradition to store the corpse next to a coffin if poisoned with Fugu. Next, how come Inspector Yoshi never does anything and he is the police chief? How come Ben said he interviewed Shinobi to Yoshi without raising suspicions? I mean, wouldn't he have to know the list of names to do that? How come Ben was not affected by the little bit of poison left over in his fugu?

Read what the chef tells Ben about the fugu. He says they leave some in when they cook it to give you the tingling sensation, but in that quantity, it is (usually) not harmful. Most toxins are only fatal when ingested in a sufficiently large quantity.

As for the rest, you could put them down to artistic licence.

Anyhow, back to the Easter egg...

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What's this about disposing of the flowers? As soon as you take them out of the basket, they disappear from your inventory, so you can't dispose of them.

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Still confused... 

About the Easter egg...

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Throw things away in the proper receptacle... 5 days of garbage.

OK, I've tried putting things I no longer need in the various trash cans that there are around the game... the one in the restroom and the one in Shinobi's, but I that doesn't work.

I tried using the toilet at the start of day 5, but I got the usual message there.

I think one of those two things will trigger the Easter egg, but the question is, when should I do them? The end of the game is too late, and the start of day 5 seems to be too early.

Thanks.

(all this so I get to see Ben Jordan in an embarrassing position )

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Oh, I bet you use it instead of the metal door with the wire to get into the other room......... Didn't think of that......I will try it.

As far as your points,  I found that if I didn't ask all the questions that came up to ask, you dont get all the points. So you have to ask everything there is to ask for each person

well that didn't work.  I used the trophy on the door instead of the metal and nothing....No Easter Egg..........

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Rosie

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First talk to Simon while he is standing by the keypad. Then give him the cup.

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Hi Rosie,

The term 'easter egg' when used with regard to adventure games refers to some hidden event that can be activated by performing a certain action. It isn't usually something that you will come across by playing through a game with just the main objectives in mind, you often have to go looking for it or it may be activated through doing something a bit random.

Personally, I think in this case its got something to do with:

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the trophy that you get when you win on the TV show, because the game creator said that you have to have full points to activate the easter egg, and also because you don't need to use it for anything in the game.

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Ah, but...

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you do use it if you go to to Yamamoto's building with Simon. Try playing the game again from the point where Simon asks if you want him to go with you.

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I finished on just over 100 points. I'm not sure what I missed out.

I'm stuck even earlier than everyone else...

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I show the desk sergeant Percy's card but the game says "You don't think that offer would be appreciated." Talking to him, he only says "Good day to you, sir."

I have talked to Simon, read the newspaper and picked up the robe from the bathroom. Is there something else I need to have done?

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Thanks.

I'VE BEEN 2 DAYS LOOKING THIS SNAKE GIRL... HELP PLEASE PLEASE!!!!

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Go into the tavern. She's serving there.

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[karelimur:]

karelimur:

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I have the jug filled with air....still not quite sure what to do with it?  The plank is in place, and I see spooks swimming in and out of the holes in the cave.

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Thanks!
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Hint #1

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What is there in the cavern that you can't move at the moment because it is too heavy?

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Hint #2

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Answer... the bowl. How could you use what you have to make it lighter?

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Hint #3

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You can't actually make it lighter, but how could you balance out some of the pressure of the water pushing down on it so that it is easier to lift?

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Solution

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Use the jug of air on the bowl. Some of the air will go under the bowl and push up on it from inside so that you can lift it.

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No problem, I've worked it out now.  :

No one seems to have answered Guest's question from Feb 17 about the red room with the huge eyes but I have much the same question...

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What are you supposed to do here?

Are you supposed to get out through one of the black descendingg bits that the eyes creates down the sides with its blasts?

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Thanks.

Ahhh, that makes sense.  Yes, that's what I've done.  Thank you very much!

I can move the object somewhere else, which won't cause any problems, but is there any way I can make the object "always on top" or something like that?

I've just downloaded AGS and I'm working through the tutorial.

I've got three rooms so far and two of them each contain one object.  One of them is the key for which there is already a sprite, and the other is my own graphic of a wallet.

When I run the game, the key is not visible in the first room while the wallet is visible in the other room.

Here are the settings for the key:

1 object in the room
Editing object 0
Object is initially visible is ON
Image is number 2 in the sprite manager (the little key)
The baseline is set just below the key

and here are the settings for the wallet in the other room:

1 object in the room
Editing object 0
Object is initially visible is ON
Image is number 6 is the sprite manager (my own graphic)
The baseline is set just below the wallet

The settings are the same, so how come when I run the game I can see and interact with the wallet but I can't see the key?  Is there something else I might have set by mistake?  Does it have something to do with the items having the same number (I think objects are numbered from 0 in each room rather than globally)? I've tried deleting the key and recreating it and moving the baseline up and down, but it makes no difference.

Thanks for any help.

Oops... looks like I've found a little bug...

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If I go into the classroom area and then back again to Dr O'Hagan's, then hit the up arrow key, it says "Dr. O'Hagan is looking at me expectantly.  I should do as she requested," but she is dead

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I've walked through the classroom into the food court.  Everything's going black and I can't get out of the exit at bottom right.  What am I supposed to do at this stage?

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