PC/CD Gamer UK 28/PCGAMER28.bin/dos/csmag46/install.dat/3OOLSERD.TXT

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~Fool's Errand

Solution originally written for the Atari ST version, but much of
the info given will be similar to that in the PC version.


`                        F O O L ' S   E R R A N D
`                       (Miles Computing - Atari ST)

Wheel  of  Fortune:  A  card  game similar to poker in that you must
draw a winning hand of cards where three of a kind beat a pair and
certain 'suits' are  better than others. The suits include Lucky,
Low, Royal and Dark. Dark beats  High,  High beats Astral, Astral
beats Council and so on. Dark cards are  The  Devil, High Priestess
and Death. Death is the best single card to have.  Though  it sounds
complicated, in fact it isn't too hard to win once you sort out the
hierarchy.

Archway: A maze with some one-way doors and invisible doors which
close and block your path as you're about to pass through them.

The  World:  23  country names to find. From top to bottom and then
left to right  they  are France, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Norway,
Ireland, Poland, Italy,  Iceland,  England,  Netherlands, Rumania,
Spain, Portugal, Austria, Greece,  Finland,  Turkey,
Czechosolvakia,  Germany, Switzerland, Albania, Yugoslavia.

Maze  of  Hedges:  This maze is only partly drawn at the start.
Winds which will  blow  you  randomly to another part of the maze
are shown as a W. The maze will gradually be revealed as you explore
it.

Maze of Thorns: No puzzle.

Strength: A picture puzzle to re-arrange.

Page of Wands: Type in 'to the east'.

Knight  of  Wands:  Use  the code given to translate the phrase to
'Well he began I met a page in my travels and he was seeking the
pyramids'.

Queen  of  Wands: A 3 by 3 letter square with the middle letter
fixed. Type in:

`SIN
` ICE
`  NEW

Wand: No puzzle.

Temperance:  The  jumbled  words  are wedding anniversary symbols.
In order they  are: wood, bronze, paper, silver, leather, turquoise.
When completed, the puzzle spells 'red urn'.

The  Canopy: 23 types of vegetables (and an odd fruit) to find. From
top to bottom then left to right they are cabbage, tomato, celery,
parsnip, onion, rhubarb,  eggplant,  squash,  cauliflower,
scallion, radish, carrot, leek, asparagus,  potato,  parsley, beans,
turnip, broccoli, artichoke, cucumber, lettuce, lentil.

The Fighting Boys: You are given a letter to start and must press
'buttons' along  the  bottom to make a phrase. The buttons have the
following effect. (1)  Reverses  (2)  puts N on the front (3) puts G
<space> on the front (4) puts  E  on the front and U at the end (5)
puts N on the front. Press 3, 2, 1, 4, 5 to give the phrase 'new
gnu'.

The Stone Wall: Clues in the picture will give you two three letters
words. Type in 'rat ivy'.

The Watchtower: No puzzle.

The Hanged Man: A picture puzzle to re-arrange.

Page  of  Cups:  The  words  are anagrams of names of fishes. The
names are perch,  trout,  minnow,  sardine, goldfish, halibut. Once
they are keyed in you'll get the phrase 'no ship'.

Knight  of Cups: Use the code given to translate the phrase into
'Alas I do he sighed. Your knight says that no ship has landed upon
your shore'.

Queen  of Cups: A 3 x 3 letter square with the middle letter fixed.
Type in

TOE
WIN
OLD

The Cup: No puzzle.

The Heirophant: These anagrams are of numbers. Type in (in pairs),
fourteen/three, twelve/two, nineteen/one, seventeen/five,
thirteen/six.

The Cloud: A picture puzzle to re-arrange.

The Vision: A letter jigsaw forming the phrase 'fourteen eight
fifteen'.

The Enchantment: Another "button" puzzle, starting with the letters
TN. There are seven buttons this time. (1) puts EE on the end (2)
puts TEE on the end (3) puts SI on the front and N on the end (4)
puts X on the front (5) puts XT on the front (6) reverses (7)
changes T to <space> SI. Press 4, 1, 6, 7, 5, 2, 3 to give the
phrase 'sixteen sixteen'.

The Abandoned Cups: No puzzle.

The Moon: Switch on the letters from the phrase along the bottom of
the screen to reveal three letters. The ones to switch on are:

MUCHtoACCOMPLISH

  xx xx xx xxxxx giving the letters AIH.

The  Blacksmith:  Re-arrange  the  letters  to  solve  the clues
given. The answers    are    merry/sorry,   brown/crown,
quick/quill,   bliss/amiss, scowl/growl,  worth/north, ghost/ghoul,
throb/three, still/chill. You'll be left with the letters ROI.

The Cathedral: Another picture puzzle.

The  Chapel:  There are three letters missing from the picture if
you check the alphabet. Type in FIE.

The  Humbug:  Trace  a  path  round  the maze of cards (?) as shown
without letting go of them. This gives you the second key of Thoth.

The  Emperor:  Find  the  names  of 26 birds. From left to right and
top to bottom   they   are   woodpecker,  whippoorwill,  dove,
hawk,  meadowlark, nightingale,   buzzard,  nuthatch,  heron,
crane,  thrush,  goose,  eagle, vulture,  bobolink,  wren,  crow,
parakeet, cardinal, finch, duck, sparrow, robin, swallow, canary,
bluejay.

The  Farmer:  Another  word jigsaw puzzle spelling 'I am here at the
queens request'.

The Knight of Pentacles: No puzzle.

The  Empress:  Anagrams.  Re-arrange  the letters to form miss,
twig, idea, root,  weep,  your, hair, area, warm, iron, lord, soup.
This highlights the words STAR and PYRAMID.

The  Children:  Yet another 'button puzzles with 6 buttons and the
starting letters OF. The buttons work as follows (1) puts E <space>
ARE on the front and CA on the end (2) puts AST <space> on the front
(3) puts W on the front and RE at the end (4) puts SE <space> W on
the end (5) puts HE <space> L on the  front and <space> THO on the
end (6) puts T on the front and HO on the end.  Press  2,  5, 4, 6,
1, 3 to give the phrase 'we are the last of those who care'.

The  Couple: Type in 'leap for joy' - the first letter of each of
the first ten words in the sentence at the bottom of the screen.

The Dancers: A word jigsaw making the phrase 'the rainbow of hope'.

The  Family:  26 colours to find. From left to right and top to
bottom they are  purple,  maroon,  amber,  scarlet,  blue, violet,
pink, orange, azure, indigo,  black,  chartreuse, crimson, hazel,
aquamarine, ochre, vermillion, turquoise, yellow, green, beige,
magenta, white, brown, gray, lavender.

Not-A-Merchant: No puzzle.

The Star: A letter jigsaw making the phrase 'mystical chant'.

The  High  Priestess:  Click on each number in order from 99 to 1.
When you have  32  left, they start moving round - the last one
takes some catching! Then leave this puzzle for the moment.

Justice:  Each  square must be turned into a symbol of a circle with
an eye in  it.  Click  the centre spot, then the four surrounding
spots. Click the eight  spots,  giving  five 'eyes' and five spots.
Now click on the central four  spots,  then the corner four spots.
Finally click on the spots in the middle of each edge. This gives
you the third key of Thoth.

The  Chariot:  Yet  another  word  jigsaw  giving the words
'pentacles cups swords wands'.

King of Swords: No puzzle.

King of Pentacles: No puzzle.

King of Cups: No puzzle.

King of Wands: No puzzle.

The  Hermit: Trace round each section of the puzzle, then all the
way round in  one  go.  This gives the last key of Thoth. Now trace
the final pattern that appears.

Judgement:  Once  again  you  must  select  buttons along the bottom
of the screen  to  reveal  three letters in the main part of the
screen. Switch on

gazeINTOtheSANDS
xx   xxxxxx   xx giving the letters EZC.

The  Chant:  Change  the  letters  to  read  'A  giant wheel stood
near the pyramids and I saw three mystical words one atop the other.

The  Dream:  Another  button puzzle, the hardest so far. You start
with the letters HAG and have 8 buttons. (1) reverses (2) reverses
(3) puts N on the front  and TEGNA on the end (4) puts OSEGN on the
front (5) puts HE <space> S  on the front (6) puts HISE on the front
and GTI on the end (7) changes G to  NU  (8)  changes E to <space>.
Press 6, 1, 7, 4, 3, 2, 8, 5 to give the phrase 'he sang this
haunting song'.

The Nightmare: No puzzle.

The Tower: A jumbled picture to re-arrange.

The Thief: Run the cursor along the sky just above the eye and
you'll see a phrase to type into the boxes. Type in 'I take no
credit for this'.

Madness: No puzzle.

The Devil: A coded sentence. Type in 'to secure that which cannot be
gotten you must invoke the points of a compass and convince it to
come to you'.

Plain of Bones: No puzzle.

Death:  You  have to get the cursor onto the white square on the
scroll but each  time  you go near it, it moves! The way I did it
was to wait until it was in a convenient place, then pull down one
of the menus and slide across onto the square.

Knight of Swords: Use the code provided to translate the coded
message into 'I bring a message from your knight, he tells of an
attack by eight magical wands'.

Queen of Swords: a 3 by 3 letter puzzle with the middle letter
fixed. Re-arrange the other letters to give

RAW
OWE
BEE

The Sword: No puzzle.

The Magician: Another picture puzzle to arrange.

Three  Ships: You have to get the cursor onto the question mark
which moves around.  To  do  this  use  the  keyboard  to move the
question mark to the cursor,  rather  than  the other way round -
sneaky! This gives you another key  of  Thoth  and  the  cursor
changes  into  a key. Go back to the High Priestess puzzle.

The High Priestess (again): After doing the Three Ships, use the key
cursor to  trace the line into the centre of the eye. This gives the
Book of Thoth piece of the sun's map.

The  Juggler:  Use the code given to translate the sentence to 'I am
afraid that  I am not the messenger you expect but I was told to
warn you that two sips approach from the south'.

Queen of Pentacles:
Another 3 by 3 square. Type in ATE
                               ROB
                               MOB

The Pentacle: Another word jigsaw giving 'the four sages'.

The Page of Pentacles: No puzzle.

The  Lovers: Find 22 tarot cards. From left to right and top to
bottom they are High Priestess, Hanged Man, Empress, Devil, World,
Star, Emperor, Fool, Strength,  Chariot,  Sun,  Lovers,  Justice,
Heirophant, Wheel of Fortune, Judgement, Death, Hermit, Temperance,
Tower, Moon, Magician.

The  Singer:  Another  puzzle  with  buttons  to  switch on to
reveal three letters.  This  time  switch on are

YOUReyesBLIND x     xx xx x xx to reveal BOW.

The Warrior: No puzzle.

NB.  At this stage, we found no puzzles were accessible and worked
out that it  was  the  High  Priestess one that was blocking the
game. We kept going back  into  it  until,  eventually, The Sentry
was available. However other people  have told me they didn't have
any problems at this point. It may be peculiar to the ST version
only.

The  Sentry: Each puzzle here consists of two words eg medal/meal.
Removing 'd'  from  the first word would give the second so type D.
Solve the others in the same way, giving the phrase 'do not try to
stop us'.

The  Boat: Re-arrange the letters in the words which link together.
This is a   long   puzzle   to   complete.   The   words   are
ditch/empty/roast, fight/wreck/utter,   throw/tarot/trick,
knife/siege,   rough/cross/chase, worry/yield,
leech/torso/slate,       crass/crack,       wrong/greed,
nudge/chaos/chain,     penny/entry/crisp,     alibi/arise,
aroma/avoid, ounce/range, idiot/align and finally despair.

Despair: The final button puzzle, and (not unexpectedly) the most
tricky.

Switch on TENglowingSWORDS
          x xxxx xxxxx xx to reveal the word PUS.

The Dead Warrior: No puzzle.

Now  comes the fun part, re-arrange the pieces of the sun's map to
show the fool's  journey  from  start  to finish. Some pieces are
easy to recognise, others  not  so logical. When you've done it
correctly, several new puzzles will  open up. These, once solved,
will give the name of one of the 14 lost treasures  of the land and
must be typed into the relevant line of the Book of  Thoth.  Each
line also says things like '<whatever> is disguised' which means
it's coded and must be typed into one of the four code strips, if it
says  it's 'confused' then the answer is an anagram. Some are
disguised AND confused!

In The Kingdom Of The Wands: (4,4)

Read  the four stories that surround the puzzle block. The Canopy
gives RED URN,  The Fighting Boys BAD YAM, The Stone Wall NEW GNU
and The Watch Tower RAT IVY. Type them into the given square as:

      REDRAT
      URNIVY
      BADNEW
      YAMGNU

This gives the treasure RUBY RING.


In The Kingdom Of The Pentacles: (4,8)

Read  the  stories  surrounding the puzzle block. The Humbug gives
FIE. The Merchant  says  'I need the words of the four who precede
me' which prompts you to read The Blacksmith (AIH), The Cathedral
(ROI), The Chapel (MYR) and we've  already read The Humbug. The Page
of Pentacles says about consulting with  'the  four  sages  that
await  me' so read The World (YES), Strength (ERA),  Temperance
(SIP)  and  The  Hanged  Man (TOP). The Hanged Man says 'consider
that the TOP is at the bottom of the upper half' which gives you a
clue where TOP should go.

Arrange the words as
           YES
           ERA
           SIP
           TOP
           AIH
           ROI
           MYR
           FIE

giving the treasure STAR SAPPHIRE.

In The Kingdom Of The Swords: (5,5)

Read the stories surrounding the puzzle block. The High Priestess
wants the sacred inscription from the evil dark tower and the
letters from the banner of  death.  The  Tower gives QM and Death
gives ZA. The Sentry says to take the  blood  of  a  man  killed  by
ten  and  smear  it on the weapon of an outnumbered  warrior. The
Dead Warrior gives PUS and The Warrior gives BOW. The  Dream
recalls  that  a giant wheel stood near the pyramids with three
mystical words one atop the other. The Wheel of Fortune symbol on
the sun's map  gives  the words ONO, ROR, DND. The Nightmare tells
of a man singing a haunting song. Read The Singer to get: EG, LI,
OC. Type in as QMPUS
               ZABOW
               EGONO
               LIROR
               OCDND

giving the treasure MAGIC SWORD.

In The Kingdom Of The Cups: (7,5)

Read  the  stories  surrounding  the  puzzle block plus
Not-A-Merchant. The Children  ask for the word of a star and the
word of the pyramids. The Star gives  ERR  and  the three stories
relating to the pyramids are The Pyramid (H),  The  Page  of  Wands
(E) and The Knight of Wands (X), giving HEX. The Couple  give  the
word CARE and mention the words of the devil and despair. The  Devil
gives  DEAD and Despair gives GRIEF. The Dancers give the words LEAP
and  JOY.  The  Family  gives  WISH  and mention the 'food of
fertile seeds'.  Read  The Farmer and The Knight of Pentacles to get
three anagrams from the latter which re-arrange to WHEAT, RICE and
CORN. Not-A-Merchant gives the word NINE.

`Type in as
`       JOY
`    GRIEF
`       WHEAT
`    RICE
`       LEAP
`      HEX
`    DEAD
`       CARE
`      ERR
`      CORN
`       WISH
`     NINE

to give JEWELED CROWN.

If Justice Be Done: (6,7)

Read  Justice to learn that 'the Emperor must take what is his from
what is hers'  ie  the  Empress. The Emperor gives WIF DOVE, The
Empress gives VILE SHADOW  and  FIVE  CIRCLE.  Delete  W,  I,  F, D,
O, V, E from the Empress' phrases to give letters which are an
anagram of SILVER CHALICE.

The Kings Are Confused: (6,6)

Read the four Kings' stories to get N, Z, T, U. Look at their pieces
on the sun's  map  to  get O, E, R, A. Each King is associated with
an object. The Cup  gives  T,  The  Wand  S,  The Pentacle B and The
Sword E. These are an anagram of BRONZE STATUE.

The Queens Are Confused: (7,8)

Each  of the Queens gives you a magic word. These are Wands CLAC,
Pentacles TRSC,  Cups  YNAL  and  Swords  EKE.  The letters are an
anagram of CRYSTAL NECKLACE.

The Knights And Pages Are Confused: (4,4)

Each  square  on the sun's map associated with a Knight or Page has
a green letter on it. These are TODLGSUD. Re-arrange these to get
GOLD DUST.

The Maze Of Thorns Is Disguised: (7,8)

You're  told  on starting the puzzle that you cannot enter until the
eleven are  seen.  An  ogre  blocks the way east and there are three
locked doors, gold and copper both to the south and silver west.
Travel as far as you can down  each  branch of the maze. Eleven
characters will be revealed and will stop  you  passing  eg  a
witch, pixie, leprechaun. Each wants a particular item  before
they'll  vanish  and let you through, enabling you to collect more
objects. Several items can be collected to start with in the
southwest corner  of  the  maze.  The  leprechaun wants luck (four
leaf clover in the southwest).  The  witch  wants  the  last
ingredient (ginger root past the leprechaun).  The  banshee wants a
dagger (knife past the witch). The genie wants  a  magic  lamp
(brass lamp past the banshee). Collect the copper key past  the
genie.  Go  through  the  copper  door  and collect the spell of
prowess.  Go  to the ogre and throw him out (using the spell of
prowess). A noisy  sprite  now  stops you. The elf wants a sacred
stone (quartz crystal past the ogre). The vampire threatens you
(carry silver cross from past the elf).  The  spirit  wants a rare
herb (parsley past the vampire). The dwarf wants  three  pearls
(past the ogre, spirit and leprechaun). Collect silver key past
dwarf, go through silver door and collect spell of silence.

Go to the noisy sprite and use spell of silence to defeat him. A
fire demon now  blocks  you.  The pixie complains about ill manners
(give yellow daisy past sprite). The nymph wants the skin of a tree
(hickory bark past pixie). The  troll  wants  five brass coins
(various places). Collect gold key past troll, go through gold door,
get spell of disruption. Enter far NE passage, avoiding  demon  then
back  down  and  round  to the exit. Several letters appear.
XLPFYVX  ENPAZGZJ.  Type into the top left code bar to get DIAMOND
BRACELET.

The Mystical Chant Is Disguised: (8,5)

Read  The  Stream  to get the mystical chant NZSL TZMB HGZUU. Type
into the bottom horizontal code bar to get MAHOGANY STAFF.

Eight In The Land Are Disguised: (8)

Take the 8 big yellow letters from the sun's map; VFBUYUDR. Arrange
them in the  order  they  appear in the journey ie DRBUFVYU. Now
type them into the right hand vertical code bar to get AMETHYST.

The Path Of Six Is Disguised: (4,9)
A  sneaky  one ... Read The Three Ships to learn 'I am the first of
six...' and get RW and be told that next you must 'seek he who
chases a fish'. Read The  Page of Cups to get KD and be told to seek
'she who holds two swords'. Read  The Chant, EZC, 'seek the family
who departs by boat'. Read The Boat, YH,  'seek  the  broken
wheel'.  Read The Chariot, HA, 'locate a thief who steals  seven'.
Read  The  Thief,  RW.  Type these in order into the upper
horizontal code bar to get ONYX MEDALLION.

The Heirophant Is Confused And Disguised: (7,6)

Read  The  Heirophant  to  get  the numbers 15, 24, 2 and be told
that four others  have  come  before  you. Read the four previous
stories to get more numbers;  The  Cloud 6, 13 - The Vision 15, 2,
20 - The  Enchantment 14, 8, 15 - The Abandoned Cups 16, 16. Look at
the sun's map and you'll see a code of  letters  and  numbers  on
the squares eg K 1, R 2, Y 3 etc. Use this to translate  the
numbers  into  the  letters  EMRADEROWFELL and these are an anagram
of EMERALD FLOWER.

Follow The Straight Path: (4,4)

Read  The Hermit and Judgement to get some directions. You're told
to start from  a J, use the one in the bottom right corner and go 4
(letters) to the north,  7  to the west, 3 to the north, 8 to the
west, 6 to the south, 5 to the east, 9 to the north to get the
treasure JADE IDOL.

The Finale:

When  the last treasure is typed into the Book of Thoth the words
'The gift of  wisdom'  are revealed. The treasures he has found
appear before him and he  prepares  to face the wrath of the High
Priestess. Changed into a Tarot card,  he  demands one last puzzle
to solve for his freedom. He succeeds in identifying the Book of
Thoth, tricks the High Priestess and turns HER into a card.

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Contributed to Cheet Sheets Magazine by John Barnsley.