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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. ~* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Contributed to Cheet Sheets Magazine by John Barnsley.