"The Magic Toyshop" step-by-step solution by pjg For game release 1 / Serial number 951018 Takes about 86 moves. Comments and points are given in () The brief solution overview 1) Nought and Crosses: Cheat by playing Catherine's winning move yourself. 2) Mouse: Push the mouse in with the bread. Speak into the hole. 3) Hanoi: Cheat by glueing the discs together. 4) Gnomon: File the gnomon with the small disc. Glue it on the sundial. 5) Dots: Make Catherine get the first box. 6) Dodgem: Make a tempo move at the right time. 7) Tea-time: Put the mushroom in the sundial shadow. Get the rod. 8) Egg: Strike the rod and then point it at the egg. Eat the egg. 9) Chest lock: Use the mouse key. Type 543251543251 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Z Again (1/1) (until Catherine offers you the box) X box Open it then empty it Shake it then empty it Get all Drop box Z Again (1/2) (until she offers you the Noughts and Crosses game) X paper (Catherine will always start in the center) Play o at 2 (Actually, any non-corner square will work) (she should play a corner square) Play x at # (1/3) (Cheat by playing an X at the appropriate corner square 1, 3, 7, or 9) X glue Squeeze glue on grey Put grey on wheeled (2/5) (she should explain the mouse puzzle to you) Get mouse Put mouse in hole (we need the bread before we can finish the mouse puzzle) Z Again (1/6) (until she gives you the gnomon) X gnomon X sundial Put gnomon on sundial Ask Catherine about gnomon G. G. G. G (we need the Towers of Hanoi puzzle before we can finish the gnomon puzzle) save Z Again (1/7) (wait until she gives you the dots and boxes puzzle) X paper Play E. Play F Play L. Play K (she should win the lower right box) Play I. Play C Play J (1/8) (But, you win the remaining three) Z Again (1/9) (wait until the Towers of Hanoi puzzle) X board Get small File gnomon with small Squeeze glue on small Put small on medium Get small Put medium on middle Get large Put large on right Get small Put medium on right (1/10) Squeeze glue on gnomon Put gnomon on sundial (1/11) save Z Again (1/12) (until the Dodgem puzzle) X paper Move B up Move B up Move B left (this is a tempo move) Move A up Move B up Move A up Move A up (1/13) Z Again (1/14) (Until tea time) Look Get mushroom, egg, bread X sundial. Put mushroom in shadow X sundial. Get rod Strike rod Point rod at egg Drop rod, glue save (now back to the mouse puzzle while the egg cools) Put bread in hole (We have to yell into the hole to instruct the voice controlled mouse) Hole, N, W, W, N, N Hole, E, S, S, S Hole, E, E, E (1/15) Get key, egg Eat egg (1/16) Unlock chest with key (1/17) Drop key, bread (She will eventually tell us the 5 rules used for the combination. One additional rule is this: There must be at least one 1 not in the right hand most position) Type 543251543251 (1/18) Enter chest (2/20) Full