The Incredible Machine 3 Walkthrough ------------------------------------ TUTORIAL PUZZLES These puzzles are too simple, really! Nonetheless, I will put the solutions to the tutorial puzzles in this FAQ anyway, 'cause I want to be as complete as possible. Okay, on with the solutions now... LEVEL 1: BALLS 1) Place the super ball underneath the 8-ball. LEVEL 2: WALLS AND INCLINES 1) Place the yellow brick wall between the gap on the right, next to the bow- ling ball. 2) Place any kind of incline on the left side of the right red brick floor. Make it as long as possible and position it in a south-western direction. LEVEL 3: GEARS AND BELTS 1) Place the conveyor belt directly under the right basketball. Make it as large as possible, and position the right side of the conveyor belt under the basketball. 2) Place a big gear directly next to the right gear which is attached to the mouse motor. 3) Place another big gear directly above the gear you just put in the field. 4) Connect one end of the belt to the "latest" big gear you placed, and con- nect the other side of the belt with the conveyor belt above. LEVEL 4: TEETER-TOTTERS & ROPES 1) Place a teeter-totter under the lower-left bowling ball. The lower side of the teeter-totter should be on the right, directly under the bowling ball. 2) Put the trailer under the left pinball. The lower side of the trailer should be on the left, the upper side of the trailer directly under the pinball. 3) Connect the upper side of the trailer with the upper side of the teeter- totter. LEVEL 5: SWITCHES AND PLUGS 1) Place a mixer on the outlet in the lower right corner of the playfield. 2) Place the switched outlet under the tennis ball in the lower left side of the playfield. 3) Place another mixer on the switched outler you just put in the field. LEVEL 6: MOTORS & GENERATORS 1) Place the generator above the right mouse motor. 2) Place the motor close to the generator, so that it connects to the out- let. The motor should be on the left side of the "belt wheel". 3) Connect the mouse motor with the generator using a belt. 4) Connect the motor with the right conveyor belt using another belt. LEVEL 7: LIGHTS AND SOLAR PANELS 1) Place the flashlight under the right pinball, so that the pinball will fall on the flashlight's button. 2) Connect the upper side of the teeter-totter with the string of the right lava lamp, using the steel cable. LEVEL 8: FIRE 1) Place a flashlight under the right tennis ball, so that the tennis ball will fall on the flashlight's button. The flashlight should shine to the right. 2) Place a football somewhere above the right flint rocks. 3) Place a magnifying glass next to the upper right flashlight. The reflec- ting side should be right. 4) Place a candle on the upper right caution wall. LEVEL 9: EXPLOSIVES 1) Place a flashlight under the pinball, shining right. 2) Place a magnifying glass on the right side of "your" flashlight, reflec- ting left. LEVEL 10: THINGS THAT LAUNCH 1) Place a tennis ball on top of the lower left flashlight button. 2) Place a tennis ball on top of the upper right flashlight button. 3) Place a flashlight next to the magnifying glass in the middle, shining left. 4) Place a tennis ball on top of the new flashlight's button. 5) Place a magnifying glass next to the upper right flashlight, reflecting right. 6) Place a piece of wall directly under the fireworks in the upper right corner. LEVEL 11: CANNONS 1) Place a cannon on the right side of the upper right magnifying glass, so that the glass can set the cannon's fuse on fire. 2) Place a flashlight under the lower right baseball, shining right. 3) Place a magnifying glass next to "your" flashlight, reflecting left. LEVEL 12: FAN, PINWHEEL, BIKE PUMP 1) Place a fan next to the lower outlet, blowing right. 2) Place a bike pump under the upper right pinball, blowing left. 3) Place a pinwheel on the left side of "your" bike pump. The blue wing of the pinwheel should be right. 4) Connect the pinwheel with the upper right conveyor belt, using a belt. LEVEL 13: BALLOONS 1) Place a tack above the happy face balloon, pointing down. 2) Connect the blue balloon with the lower left trolley, the lower right trolley and the pink doggie balloon above it. LEVEL 14: BLIMPS 1) Place a blimp on the left side of the flint rocks, flying right. 2) Place a tack on the left side of "your" blimp, pointing right. LEVEL 15: HOT AIR BALLOONS 1) Place a blimp on the left side of the flint rocks, flying right. 2) Place a pair of scissors underneath the leftmost pinball, cutting left. LEVEL 16: ANTI-GRAVITY PAD 1) Place an anti-gravity pad underneath the left yellow brick floor. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad underneath the right yellow brick floor. LEVEL 17: THINGS THAT BOUNCE 1) Place a springboard underneath the lower left baseball. 2) Place a Jack-in-the-box on top of the left mouse motor. The lever of the Jack-in-the-box can point either way. 3) Connect the Jack-in-the-box with the mouse motor using a belt. LEVEL 18: BOXING GLOVE 1) Place a boxing glove next to the doggie balloon, punching right. LEVEL 19: ELECTRIC MIXER, CAN OPENER 1) Place an electric mixer next to any outlet. 2) Place a can opener next to any other outlet. LEVEL 20: TOASTER 1) Place a toaster under the baseball. The lever of the toaster should be on the left side, directly under the baseball. The toaster also should be connected to the outlet. LEVEL 21: LARGE PIPES 1) Place a straight pipe next to the lower left elbow pipe. Do not resize it in any way. 2) Place an accelerator pipe next to "your" straight pipe, accelerating to the right. 3) Place an elbow pipe next to "your" accelerator, with entries north and east. LEVEL 22: EGG TIMER 1) Place an egg timer underneath the lower left baseball. The punching arm should point right. Set the timer to at least 2 seconds. 2) Place an egg timer underneath the upper right baseball. The punching arm should point left. Set the timer to 0 seconds. LEVEL 23: MESSAGE MACHINE 1) Place a pinball above the 4th computer from the left. 2) Place a baseball above the 5th computer from the left. 3) Place a tennis ball above the 6th computer from the left. LEVEL 24: POOL BALLS, WALLS, CUES 1) Place a cue on the right side of the lower baseball. Aim left. LEVEL 25: COFFEE POT 1) Place a baseball above the left flint rocks, next to the sand floor. 2) Place a coffee pot on the sand floor above the left flint rocks, steaming right. LEVEL 26: LASERS 1) Place the red laser next to any outlet. 2) Place the blue laser next to any other outlet. 3) Place the green laser next to the last free outlet. LEVEL 27: LASER-ACTIVATED PLUGS 1) Place a laser-activated plug straight above the green laser, and straight next to the blue laser-activated plug, so it should be positioned some- where in the upper-right corner of the screen. Program it to react on a green beam. 2) Place a blue laser next to the green laser-activated plug. Aim left, at the blue laser-activated plug. LEVEL 28: LASER MIXERS 1) Place a green laser next to the lower right outlet. Aim left. 2) Place a blue laser next to the lower right outlet. Aim left. 3) Place a laser mixer next to "your" lasers. Aim left. LEVEL 29: LASER MIRRORS 1) Place a laser mirror next to the blue laser, reflecting south-west. Make sure the blue laser beam will hit the laser mixer using the mirrors. LEVEL 30: LASER DETECTOR 1) Place a red laser next to the lower right outlet. Aim at the leftmost laser detector. 2) Place a laser detector next to the blue laser, so that the blue beam hits the eye of the laser detector. LEVEL 31: TRANSLATION & ROTATION 1) Place a vertical motion transformer on the left side of the right mouse motor. The belt wheel should be down, the rope eye should be up. 2) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the mouse motor using a belt. 3) Place a horizontal motion transformer under the lower conveyor belt. The eye rope should be right. 4) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the horizontal motion trans- former using the rope and the right trolley. 5) Connect the horizontal motion transformer with the conveyor belt using a belt. LEVEL 32: BUCKETS 1) Place a leaking bucket directly under the right trolley. 2) Connect the right bucket with "your" leaking bucket, using both trolleys and a rope. LEVEL 33: SNIPS & TRIMMERS 1) Place a tin snip under the right baseball, cutting right. 2) Place a hedge trimmer so it will cut the rope above the right leaking bucket. Cut right. LEVEL 34: CATS AND AQUARIUMS 1) Place a tennis ball above the tail of the bottom center cat (the left of the two lowest cats). 2) Place an aquarium on the same height as the bottom cats, directly under the other aquarium. LEVEL 35: MICE AND CHEESE 1) Place a piece of cheese in between the two bottom mice. 2) Place a cat behind the 3rd mice from above. LEVEL 36: MOUSE HOLE 1) Place a piece of cheese on the right side of the lower mouse hole. LEVEL 37: MANDRILL MOTOR 1) Place a laundry basket underneath the right mandrill motor. 2) Connect the laundry basket with the mandrill motor's shade, using a rope. 3) Connect the mandrill motor with the right conveyor belt, using a belt. LEVEL 38: MEL SCHLEMMING 1) Place Mel Schlemming on the bottom right caution floor, looking left. Program him to be running. 2) Place Mel Schlemming on the bottom left caution floor, looking right. Program him to be running. LEVEL 39: EDISON ALLIGATOR 1) Place Edison Alligator next to the grass incline, on the right, facing left. LEVEL 40: VACUUM 1) Place the cheese above the switched outlet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4.2 EASY PUZZLES This is where the actual puzzling starts. These aren't very tough puzzles yet, but at least they are a bit more challenging than the 40 tutorial puz- zles. LEVEL 1: UNDER THE SEA 1) Place a straight pipe next to the elbow pipe. Stretch the pipe horizon- tally to the right as far as possible. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad under the lower small pipe floor, directly on the right side of the small lower middle pipe wall (the little side-pipe pointing up). 3) Place a granite incline directly above the anti-gravity pad. Make sure it is the same length as the anti-gravity pad. LEVEL 2: YELLOW BRICK PATH 1) Place the TNT remote control above the lower right cat. The TNT itself goes on the wooden floor on the right. 2) Place a piece of cheese above the handle of the TNT remote control. Make sure that the cheese is on the same level as the middle yellow brick floor when the remote handle is all the way down. 3) Place a piece of cheese on the smallest granite platform on the screen (the one next to the upper yellow brick floor). 4) Place another piece of cheese on the red brick floor. 5) Finally, place the last piece of cheese under the hot air balloon. (not necessary). LEVEL 3: SPACE HOOPS 1) Place a yellow brick incline on the left side of the mouse motor. The right side of the incline should be up, the left side down. Make it as small as possible. 2) Place another yellow brick next to the one you just inserted. Make it just as long. 3) Place the Jack-in-the-box on the left side of the latest incline, one "bit" down. The lever must point left. 4) Place a big gear under the mouse motor. 5) Place a little gear on the right side of the big gear. 6) Connect the little gear with the mouse motor using a belt. 7) Connect the big gear with the Jack-in-the-box using a belt. 8) Place a yellow brick incline on the right side of the "original" incline (the one that's there from the beginning). The new incline should be as small as possible. 9) Place another yellow brick incline on the right side of the latest incline. Make it just as long. If you've done everything correctly, it will exactly fit between the Jack-in-the-box and the other inclines. LEVEL 4: BUMP AND ROLL 1) Place the boxing glove on the left side of the pinball, punching right. 2) Place the cue on the right side of the lower bowling ball, shooting left. 3) Place the egg-timer between the caution wall and the baseball, armed left. Set the timer to whatever you feel like (i'd suggest 0 seconds). LEVEL 5: MIDNIGHT BLAST 1) Place a lamp on the left side of the magnifying glass, shining right. 2) Place a conveyor belt under the lower pinball. Stretch it to the right un- til it reaches the end of the caution floor underneath it. 3) Connect the conveyor belt with the electric motor using a belt. 4) Place a boxing glove between the two upper pinballs, punching left. LEVEL 6: BILL'S AQUARIUM 1) Connect the electric motor with the conveyor belt using a belt. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad on the left side of the other anti-gravity pad. 3) Place a granite incline above the anti-gravity pad, next to the cinder block floor where the aquarium stands on. Upper side right. Make it as big as possible. 4) Place another granite incline next to the latest granite incline, upper side right. Make it just as big so that it fits between the left cinder block wall and the other incline. 5) Place a curved pipe under the rightmost accelerator, with entries north and west. 6) Place a curved pipe above the rightmost accelerator, with entries south and west. 7) Place a boxing glove next to the aquarium, smashing left. LEVEL 7: CAGED BALLOONS 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the cinder block floor under the left bal- loon. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad under the cinder block floor under he right bal- loon. 3) Place a tack directly under the left balloon, pointing up. 4) Place a tack directly under the right balloon, pointing up. LEVEL 8: AIR TIME 1) Place a cinder block wall under the hot air balloon, next to the top blimp on the right. 2) Place a cinder block wall under the hot air balloon, next to the middle blimp on the right. 2) Place a cinder block wall under the hot air balloon, next to the bottom blimp on the right. LEVEL 9: PULLEY POPPER 1) Place a leaking bucket under the leftmost trolley, next to the beach ball. Program it to be leaking a bit (3rd position). 2) Connect the leaking bucket with the upper left trolley, on to the upper right trolley, down to the empty bucket. Use a rope. 3) Place an anti-gravity pad under the beach ball. 4) Place a wood incline above the ball, all the way at the top. Make sure it it medium-sized. The right side should be up. LEVEL 10: SEPARATION 1) Place a trap door in the gap between the two top red brick floors. 2) Place a TNT remote control next to the top left red brick floor. Place the explosives on the bottom left red brick wall, above the empty aquarium. 3) Place a TNT remote control on the right side of the rightmost incline with the left side up. Place the explosive under there, on the bottom right red brick wall. 4) Place the anti-gravity pad in the bottom left corner of the screen, between the red brick wall and the red brick incline. 5) Place the springboard on the right side of the middle red brick incline with the left side up (the incline is directly under the trap door). LEVEL 11: BEACK BLAST 1) Place a wooden incline between the left wooden incline and the bottom wooden floor. Make it as small as possible, with the right side up. 2) Place the electric outlet above Mel's head. 3) Place the laser next to the outlet, aiming at the left five fireworks. 4) Place the flint rocks under the right fireworks. LEVEL 12: THE DREAM 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the red ball. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad under the yellow ball. 3) Place an anti-gravity pad under the blue ball. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad under the green ball. 5) Place a granite incline above the green ball, boarding the granite floor above. Make it medium sized, with the left side up. 6) Place a granite incline above the blue ball, boarding the granite floor above. Make it medium sized, with the left side up. 7) Place a granite incline above the yellow ball, boarding the granite floor above. Make it medium sized, with the left side up. 8) Place a granite incline above the red ball, boarding the granite floor above. Make it medium sized, with the left side up. LEVEL 13: LATE FOR THE WORLD CUP 1) Place a teeter-totter under the basketball. Lower the right side of it. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad between the second (small) and third (bigger) red brick wall, at the bottom. 3) Place a curved pipe next to the accelerator, with openings right and down. LEVEL 14: TRAP NEWTON 1) Place a piece of cheese on the small red brick floor, on the same level as Newton Mouse. 2) Place a TNT remote control on the bottom red brick floor, exactly under the gap between the mouse and "your" piece of cheese. Place the explosives on the red brick wall above the pinball. 3) Place a pair of hedge trimmers in the top left corner, cutting the rope. The handles of the trimmers should be on the left side. LEVEL 15: BALLOON TRAVELER 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the bottom right granite incline. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad directly on the left side of the first Greco- Roman wall on the right. 3) Place an anti-gravity pad directly on the left side of the second Greco- Roman wall on the right. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad directly on the left side of the third Greco- Roman wall on the right (under the tack). 5) Place a granite incline in the top-right corner of screen, between the Greco-Roman wall and floor. Make it as big as possible, left side up. 6) Place a granite incline in the top-center of screen, between the Greco- Roman wall and floor. Make it as big as possible, left side up. 7) Place a granite incline in the top-left corner of screen, between the Greco-Roman wall and floor. Make it as big as possible, left side up. 8) Place a granite incline on top of the second anti-gravity pad on the left. Make it as big as possible, right side up. 9) Place a granite incline on top of the third anti-gravity pad on the left. Make it as big as possible, right side up. LEVEL 16: KITTY IN A CAGE 1) Place an electric motor on the right side of the switched outlet. 2) Connect the electric motor with the vertical motion transformer using a belt. 3) Place a small gear on the left side of the big gear. 4) Connect the horizontal motion transformer with the small gear using a belt. 5) Connect the big gear with the generator using a belt. 6) Place the can opener under the generator, so that it connects with the out- let. LEVEL 17: THE FOOD MACHINE 1) Place a red laser on the left side of the switched outlet. Aim at the red laser-activated plug below. 2) Place a yellow brick incline between the two top yellow brick walls. Make it as small as possible, right side up. 3) Place another small yellow brick incline (right side up) between the other incline and the left yellow brick wall. 4) Place a trolley under the lower side of the teeter-totter, next to the match-on-a-string. 5) Connect the match-on-a-string with the lower side of the teeter-totter, using the trolley. 6) Connect the mouse motor with the generator using a belt. LEVEL 18: NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS 1) Place a trailer in the bottom gap between the log floors, left side up. 2) Connect the upper sides of both trailers using the rope. 3) Place the accelerator in the bottom left corner of the screen, under the gap between the log wall and the log incline. LEVEL 19: DOUBLE WHAMMY 1) Place the bowling ball on the high end of the yellow brick incline. 2) Place the trailer on the left side of the yellow brick incline, on the cau- tion floor. Right side up. 3) Place the match-on-a-string under the fuse of the right missile. The eye should be left. 4) Place the match-on-a-string under the fuse of the left missile. The eye should be right. 5) Connect the lower side of the trailer with the left match-on-a-string using the bottom left trolley and the top left trolley. 6) Connect the upper side of the trailer with the right match-on-a-string using the top right trolley. LEVEL 20: DEEP SEA EXPLOSION 1) Place an egg-timer under the bowling ball. The arm of the timer should be next to the basketball. I'd suggest you set the timer to 0 seconds. 2) Place the trailer between the sand floor and the sand wall. Right side up. 3) Connect the upper side of the trailer with the handle of the TNT remote control using a rope. LEVEL 21: NEWTON DROPS A MESSAGE 1) Place an anti-gravity pad in the third hole between the caution walls on the bottom left side of the screen (between the football and the cheese). 2) Place the pinball bumper on the left side of the rightmost computer screen. 3) Place the nitroglycerine on the right side of the pinball on top of the screen. Place it on the caution wall; don't let it fall down and explode. 4) Place the cue on the left side of the bottom TNT remote control, so that the baseball can trigger the cue. The baseball should not leave the screen. LEVEL 22: HOME SWEET HOME 1) Place a curved pipe directly under Newton Mouse. The openings should be on top and on the left. 2) Place a curved pipe under "your" curved pipe. The openings should be on top and on the left. The two curved pipes should not touch! If done correctly, Newton Mouse will end up on the floating wooden floor, in the center of the screen. 3) Place a piece of cheese on the small wooden wall on the left, next to the latest curved pipe. 4) Place another piece of cheese on the small wooden wall on the right, above the lower accelerator. 5) Place a TNT remote control on the bottom left small wooden floor. Place the explosives on the right side of the wooden wall next to the mouse hole. 6) Place a curved pipe between the TNT remote and the lower accelerator. The openings should be on top and on the right side. 7) Place an accelerator above the bottom right curved pipe. Accelerate up. 8) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the top left accelerator. Openings should be on the left side and on the bottom. LEVEL 23: FEEDING CURIE 1) Place a balloon between Curie Cat and the can opener. 2) Place a trailer above the balloon. The lower side of the trailer should be above the balloon. 3) Connect the upper side of the trailer with the match-on-a-string, using a rope and both trolleys from right to left. 4) Place the dynamite between the two small wooden floors, with the fuse on the right side (above the match-on-a-string). 5) Place a big gear under the Mandrill Motor. 6) Place another big gear next to it. 7) Place anóther big gear somewhere under and on the right side of the two gears. 8) Place ANOTHER big gear next to the latest gear. 9) Connect the generator with the bottom right gear using a belt. 10) Connect the Mandrill Motor with the top left gear using another belt. 11) Connect the last two free gears using your last belt. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ INTERMEZZO Okay, let's take a little break here. Since you already came this far, I sup- pose you aren't completely stupid. So I'm going to shorten things a bit from here, especially when it comes to gears, belts, ropes, walls and inclines. If things are unclear, tell me, so I can upgrade my FAQ if necessary. Oh yeah, another thing I forgot to mention: if a solution in this FAQ doens't seem to work, it can help if you move one of the objects a little bit. You will find out, when a solution doesn't work, why it doens't work. So work on it yourself a bit! Thank you! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LEVEL 24: FISHTANK TARGET 1) Place a mouse motor left of the top-right incline. The mouse should face right. 2) Place a pair of gears on the bottom-right of the mouse motor, underneath each other. 3) Connect the top gear with the mouse motor. 4) Place two inclines in the bottom gap between the incline and the floor. 5) Place two big gears next to each other under "your" inclines. 6) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the match-on-a-spring. Use the trolley. LEVEL 25: GHOST DYNAMITE 1) Place a balloon under the candle. 2) Connect the balloon with the match-on-a-spring using the trolley. 3) Place all anti-gravity pads on the bottom wooden floor, a little bit spread out over the floor, but not under the balloon/candle/match-on-a-spring. LEVEL 26: THE MERRY MIXER 1) Place a springboard under the pinball. 2) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the curved pipe in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Openings right and up. 3) Place the accelerator on top of the right curved pipe. Accelerate up. 4) Place a pair of hedge trimmers under the balloon so that it'll cut the rope. The handles should be on the right. 5) Place an anti-gravity pad in the small gap in the bottom-right corner of the screen, between the two floors. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4.3 MEDIUM PUZZLES This is where I encountered some little problems for the first time without hints. Puzzles are getting a tad bit harder from here on. LEVEL 1: MOUNTAIN MAN MEL 1) Place Newton Mouse on the right side of the bottom boat cleet. 2) Place Edison Alligator on the bottom log floor, next to the incline. He must face right. 3) Place a blue balloon under the top right little floor. * 4) Connect the Mandrill Motor with the Jack-in-the-box. *) The balloon can be a bit hard to place. Move it a little bit to the left or right until Mel heads home. LEVEL 2: MONDRIAN'S TOY BOX 1) Place Jack-in-the-box in the top magenta part of the screen. 2) Place a small gear next to the big gear in the same part of the screen. 3) Place a big gear next to "your" small gear. 4) Place the outlet in the green part of the screen. 5) Place the fan next to the outlet. 6) Place the pinwheel next to the fan. 7) Connect the fan with the small gear. 8) Connect Jack-in-the-box with the big gear. LEVEL 3: GLIMPY BLIMPY 1) Place the nitroglycerine between the small pipes above two top blimps. When you start the puzzle, the nitro should fall between the blimps. 2) Place the boxing glove next to the balloon, in the narrow part of the pipes. 3) Place a blimp next to the boxing glove, facing right. LEVEL 4: PIPE GRIPE 1) Place the T-connector in the middle of the screen, between the curved pipe and the two small straight pipes. 2) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the small straight pipe in the upper-left of the screen, openings right and down. 3) Place a curved pipe on the right side of the small straight pipe in the upper-left of the screen, openings left and down. 4) Place an accelerator above the bottom left curved pipe. Place it somewhere between the two horizontal pipe sections, so that you don't block one of them. Accelerate up. 5) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the curved pipe in the upper-right corner of the screen. Openings right and down. LEVEL 5: UP AND AWAY! 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the pinball. 2) Place an accelerator on the right side of the curved pipe in the upper- left corner of the screen. Accelerate left. 3) Place a curved pipe next to the second accelerator in the upper-left cor- ner of the screen. Openings left and down. 4) Place an accelerator on the right side of the curved pipe in the bottom- center of the screen (above the trolley, next to the rocket). Accelerate right. 5) Place an accelerator on top of the bottom right curved pipe (next to the missile). Accelerate up. 6) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the top-right curved pipe. The o- penings should be right and down. 7) Place an accelerator between the two "latest" curved pipes. Accelerate down. 8) Place the hot air balloon next to the magnifying glass. 9) Place the match-on-a-string under the missile. The eye should be left. 10) Connect the hot air balloon and the match-on-a-string using the trolley. LEVEL 6: MOUSE HOUSE MUNCHIES 1) Place a curved pipe under the right baseball. Openings up and left. 2) Place a curved pipe above the left curved pipe and the bigger incline. Openings left and down. 3) Place the hedge trimmers under the balloon, so that they'll cut the rope. The handles should be left. 4) Place the flashlight next to the right brick wall, so that the left base- ball will fall on it when the balloon touches it. Shine right. 5) Place the magnifying glass between the flashlight and the cannon fuse. Re- flect left. 6) Place a curved pipe directly above the TNT remote control. Openings left and down. LEVEL 7: LASER LAUNCH 1) Place a mirror under the top-right mirror, next to the blue laser. Reflect north-west. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom left corner of the screen, between the wall and the small incline. 3) Place a curved pipe above the anti-gravity pad, on the same height as the top brick floor. 4) Place the accelerator next to the curved pipe (top-left). Accelerate left. 5) Place the stright pipe next to the accelerator. Resize it to the left until the end of the pipe meets the end of the brick wall above. 6) Place the flashlight next to the magnifying glass, on the right. Shine left. 7) Place the conveyor belt under the rocket. Stretch it so that the left side of the conveyor belt is under the rocket, and the right side lies on the small brick wall. 8) Connect the conveyor belt with the electric motor. LEVEL 8: FIRE BALL 1) Place the curved pipe under the football, as high as the trap door. Open- ings should be up and left. 2) Place the accelerator next to the curved pipe, on the left side. Accelerate left. If things are done correctly, the accelerator nearly touches the trap door. 3) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom left corner, on the right side of the Greco-Roman wall. 4) Place four inclines, as small as possible and with the right side up, next to each other in the top left corner of the screen, from where the Greco- Roman wall ends. LEVEL 9: FOURTH OF JULY 1) Place an egg-timer under the candle, so that the candle "slides" to the left after hitting the timer switch. The arm should be on the left. Set the timer to at least 2 seconds. 2) Place four inclines (standard length, left side up) next to each other. The first incline starts at the end of the left caution wall, the last incline ends at the bottom of the screen. 3) Place a caution wall between the last incline and the bottom wall, in the gap. Resize it so that it fills up the entire gap. 4) Place the blue laser (or any of the other lasers, I used the blue one) next to the outlet in the top-left of the screen. Aim it at the mirror. 5) Place the laser-activated plug under the mirror. Program it to react on a blue beam (unless you've used a different laser). 6) Place the electric motor under the laser-activated plug, so that it is connected to its outlet. 7) Place the vertical motion transformer next to the motor. 8) Connect the transformer and the motor with the belt. 9) Place the match-on-a-string over the top left caution floor with its eye left, so that it can light the candle when it has fallen off the timer. 10) Connect the match-on-a-spring with the transformer using a rope and the trolley. LEVEL 10: BEACH BALL BONANZA 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the beach ball. 2) Place two inclines (smallest, right side up) between the left incline and the "sand wall" (which looks more like a trimmed palm tree), so that it blocks the gap above. 3) Place two anti-gravity pads in the lower-left corner of the screen, next to the left sand wall. 4) Place the generator on the right side of the mouse motor. 5) Connect the mouse with the left little gear. 6) Place a little gear next to the big gear. 7) Connect the middle big gear with the generator. 8) Connect the right little gear with the left conveyor belt. 9) Connect the pinwheel with the right conveyor belt. 10) Place the dynamite on the middle wooden floor. 11) Place the nitro on the bottom wooden floor. 12) Place the fan next to the generator, so that it connects with the outlet. Aim at the pinwheel. LEVEL 11: CAT BOUNCE 1) Place a generator on the middle cinder block floor which is leveled with Curie the Cat. 2) Place a can opener next to the generator. 3) Connect the bottom mouse motor with the generator. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom-left gap under the cinder block floor. 5) Place a generator on the top floor. 6) Connect the top mouse motor with the generator. 7) Place the fan next to the generator. Blow in the direction of the balloon. LEVEL 12: LASER TARGET 1) Place a flashlight under the top pinball. Shine left, in the direction of the magnifying glass. 2) Place a lava lamp near the solar panel. 3) Place a trolley under the lava lamp on the metal block. 4) Place another trolley under the hot air baloon on the metal block. 5) Connect the lamp with the hot air balloon using the trolleys. 6) Place a mirror above the laser detector so that the beam will hit the eye. LEVEL 13: BREAKFAST BUFFET 1) Place a mouse motor in the gap between the floor and the incline at the bottom of the screen. 2) Connect the mouse with the upper gear. 3) Place a vertical motion transformer on the right side of the gears, under the trolley. 4) Connect the lower gear with the motion transformer. 5) Connect the match-on-a-string with the motion transformer using the trol- ley. 6) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom-left corner of the screen, under the "chimney-alike" brick construction. 7) Place an incline between the incline on the right and the anti-gravity pad on the left, so that it fits exactly. 8) Place an egg-timer on the small brick floor in the top-left of the screen. The arm should point right and it should be set to at least 3 seconds. 9) Place an incline on the left side of the top right small brick floor. Make it as big as possible, with the right side up. 10) Place another incline between the "latest" incline and the left small brick floor, so that it fits exactly. Right side up. LEVEL 14: PIPE MIXER 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the pinball. Put it on the bottom pipe floor. 2) Place a curved pipe on the right of the bottom right little pipe floor. Openings left and up. 3) Place an accelerator on top of the curved pipe you've just placed. Accele- rate up. 4) Place another accelerator under the top curved pipe. Accelerate up. 5) Place a trolley above the higher part of the trailer. 6) Connect the higher part of the trailer with the match-on-a-string using the trolley. 7) Place a blimp on the right side of the top leaking bucket. 8) Place the oil lamp next to the solar panel, on the left. LEVEL 15: FISHING IN ROME 1) Place the teeter-totter under the baseball, lower side left. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom left corner of the field, on the right side of the wall. 3) Place two standard-sized inclines at the top of the left wall, right side up. 4) Place the flashlight and the magnifying glass so that they will light the cannon when the baseball falls on the flashlight's button. 5) Place the boxing glove on the small top-left floor so that it can punct the aquarium. LEVEL 16: BOMB BAFFLE 1) Place a cue next to the pinball, so that the blimp can trigger the cue. 2) Place an anti-gravity pad on the bottom left side of the right caution wall. 3) Place a standard-sized incline between the anti-gravity pad and the caution floor. Right side up. 4) Place the teeter-totter under the top leaking bucket. The lower side should be left and directly under the leaking bucket. 5) Connect the high end of the teeter-totter with the upper TNT remote. 6) Use the other inclines so that the pinball falls on the high end of the teeter-totter. Two standard-sized inclines (upper side left) on the left side of the right caution wall will do the trick. LEVEL 17: BOWL ME OVER 1) Place the boxing glove on the left side of the bowling ball, punching right. 2) Place a mouse motor in the gap between the caution floors. 3) Place the vertical motion transformer under the left caution floor. Eye up. 4) Place the horizontal motion transformer next to the left small brick wall. Eye right. 5) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the mouse motor. 6) Connect the horizontal motion transformer with the vertical motion trans- former using a rope and both inclines. 7) Place a conveyor belt in the gap between the bottom floor and left wall. 8) Connect the conveyor belt with the horizontal motion transformer. 9) Place a springboard on the right side of the bottom caution floor. It may take a few tries until you have put it on the correct height. LEVEL 18: MEL IN A MUDDLE 1) Place an egg timer between the pinball and the caution wall. Arm left. Set it at 0 seconds (unless you like senselessly senseless waiting). 2) Place an anti-gravity pad between the yellow incline and the left wall. 3) Place a teeter-totter between the caution wall and the brick wall. Right side up. 4) Place the motion transformer under the Jack-in-the-box. Eye left. 5) Connect the motion transformer with the high end of the teeter-totter. 6) Connect the motion transformer with the Jack-in-the-box. 7) Connect the empty bucket with the lower TNT remote control. Use the right trolley. LEVEL 19: MEL'S AMAZING MAZE 1) Place a TNT remote control in the small gap on the top floor, so that Mel will walk over it. Place the explosives on the wooden floor in the top-left corner of the screen. 2) Place another TNT remote control in the small gap on the second top floor. Place the explosives on the wooden floor, top-right in the screen. 3) Place the caution floor on the right side of the wooden incline where the pinball lies close to. Resize it until the right side of the floor reaches the left side of the floor above. 4) Place an egg-timer on the left side of the bowling ball, arm right. Set the timer to 0 seconds. LEVEL 20: ILLUMINATE THE LAB 1) Place two anti-gravity pads in the gaps at the bottom of the screen. 2) Place an egg-timer on the left side of the right pinball, arm right. Make sure the trigger is positioned under the right empty bucket. Set the timer at 0 seconds. 3) Place a curved pipe, openings up and left, on the left side of the lava lamp. Test the puzzle a few times, look if the pinball falls on the trai- ler. If not, move the curved pipe a little. 4) Connect the low end of the trailer with the lava lamp. LEVEL 21: BLOW UP 1) Place an incline under the baseball with the high end on the right. Make it standard-sized. Place it somewhere halfway between the baseball and the caution floor. 2) Place a springboard between "your" incline and the "roof" of the hot air balloon. 3) Place the TNT remote next to the lower left incline next to the left wall, so that the pinball can trigger it. The explosives go on the bottom brick floor. 4) Place the nitro on the middle brick floor. 5) Place the dynamite on the top brick floor. The fuse must be above the match-on-a-string. 6) Place the hedge trimmers under the trolley, handles on the left. 7) Place the flint rocks under the hot air balloon. LEVEL 22: GRAVITY CAVITY 1) Place a conveyor belt above the soccer ball, so that another soccer ball would fit in between. Make it as big as possible, with the right side of it above the ball. 2) Place a motor above the conveyor belt, so that it is plugged to the solar panel outlet. 3) Connect the motor with the conveyor belt. 4) Place a candle on (over, not above) the solar panel. 5) Connect the lava lamp with the high end of the trailer using both trolleys. 6) Place a pinball underneath the low end of the trailer. 7) Place a magnifying glass on the right side of the lava lamp, reflecting left. 8) Place an incline lower than the pinball and the trailer. Left side up, maximum size. *) Be patient after you run this puzzle. Nothing seems to happen, but the can- dle will bounce up and down, catch fire and eventually power the solar pa- nel. You'll see. LEVEL 23: THE SKY IS FALLING! 1) Place four boat cleets above the buckets. Turn 'em all around. 2) Connect the buckets with the cleets above. Make sure the ropes are com- pletely tight and unbent! 3) Place an anti-gravity pad under the right wall. 4) Place a wooden floor next to the original wooden floor, stretch it to the max (that is, until it collides with the anti-gravity pad). 5) Place an incline on top of the right wall. Left side up, maximum length. LEVEL 24: STOP THE INVASION 1) Place flint rocks high above the bottom cinder block floor, a bit lower than the top blimp. 2) Place a balloon above the left trolley. 3) Place the phazer gun on the left side of the top trolley. Aim at the flint rocks. 4) Connect the phazer gun with the balloon in this order: phazer gun - top right trolley - bottom right trolley - bottom left trolley - balloon. 5) Put a missile on the bottom cinder block floor. Aim right. LEVEL 25: MEL-O-DRAMA 1) Place Curie Cat high above Mel's head. 2) Place a mice on the right side of the second floor from the top. 3) Place a piece of cheese on the left side of the second floor from the top. Make sure the mouse on the right can't reach the cheese on the left, and that Mel can walk over the cheese. 4) Place a tube of nitro in the little gap under the second floor from the top. LEVEL 26: LUNAR BASE TAKE-OFF 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the silver balloon. 2) Connect the high end of the teeter-totter with the lava lamp. 3) Place the laser color mixer in front of the red laser. Aim at the laser- activated plug. 4) Place an electric motor under the laser-activated plug. 5) Connect the electric motor with the vertical motion transformer. 6) Place a trolley on the left side of the phazer gun. 7) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the phazer gun using the trol- ley. 8) Place flint rocks under the rocket. LEVEL 27: FLIGHT THROUGH THE ALPS 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the soccer ball. 2) Place a teeter-totter next to the bucket and under the baseball. High end left. 3) Place a bike pump on the right side of the pinwheel. Blow left. 4) Place the blue (or red) laser next to the switched outlet. Aim at the can- non's fuse. 5) Place the tin snips half way through the steel cable. Handles right. 6) Place the flashlight on the left side of the solar panel. Shine right. 7) Place the red (or blue) laser above the solar panel. Aim at the hot air balloon fuse. LEVEL 28: SOCCER SHOCKER *) This is one hell of a puzzle to explain in text! I will try it anyway, and if you don't understand it, contact me and I'll give you a screenshot of the level. 1) Place the boxing glove next to the hot air balloon, on the bottom floor, on the side with the pinball. Punch left. 2) Place flint rocks under the hot air balloon. 3) Place a trailer above the hot air balloon, lower side left. The low end of the trailer should be about as high as the end of the wall on the left of it. 4) Place another trailer above and left of the trailer, so that when the right trailer flips, the left trailer will flip as well. High and left. 5) Place tin snips on the steel cable, handles left. The trailer above it will touch the handles and close the snips. 6) Place the hadge trimmers under the happy face balloon, handles under the empty bucket. 7) Place the cue between the balloon and the soccer ball, aim at the soccer ball (which means the cue should point in north-western direction). 8) Okay, it's pipe time now! Place a curved pipe on the right side of the football, openings up and left (almost touching the springboard). 9) Add an accelerator to the left opening, accelerating to the left. The ac- celerator should be right above the springboard. 10) Add another curved pipe to the accelerator, openings right and up. 11) Add anóther curved pipe above the last, openings down and right. It should be as high as the grey corner stone in the yellow brick wall. 12) Add an accelerator to the right opening of the curved pipe. If things are done correctly, the accelerator ends exactly at the grey corner stone. 13) Now perhaps the trickiest part: put a blimp under the top right floor. The blimp should fly left and be positioned somewhere directly above the ten- nis ball and the "3" pool ball, all the way up until it touches the roof. 14) Pull some hairs out of your head and try again. LEVEL 29: PINBALL PUZZLER *) There are a lot of pieces of pipe in this puzzle. I have split this puzzle into six parts, to make it a bit easier to understand. The level looks like this (a bit anyway): +---+----------------+---------------------+ | O | | | | -' (2) | (4) | | | | | | | +-- | | -+ | | --------+ | | | | ## | | | | | ###### | | | | | ###### (6) | | | | | ## | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -+ -+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (1) | (3) | | (5) | | | | | | +-----------+---------------+ +-----------+ (1) Place two curved pipes next to each other, so that the pinball that falls down is being redirected up. Add an accelerator on top of the right curved pipe. (2) Again, place two curved pipes next to each other, but this time change the direction of the pinball from up to down. (3) Make the same construction you made at (1). (4) Make the same construction you made at (2). (5) Make the construction from (1) once more. (6) Add one curved pipe to change the direction from up to left. LEVEL 30: ALL TERRAIN PINBALL 1) Place an accelerator under the pinball. Accelerate up. 2) This one is pretty tricky... You have to place two pinball bumps in the left pinball field, so that the ball bounces out of the pinball field, into the right gap. I've placed one next to the computer, a little bit lower, and the second one a bit higher, close to the right wooden wall. There's no exact solution for this point, you'll have to find a fitting solution by moving the bumps pixel by pixel. Keep trying and testing, and if you have found the solution, continue with point 3. 3) Place an accelerator next to the rightmost wooden incline, so that the pin- ball rolls in. 4) Place a third pinball bump in the top-right corner of the screen, where the rightmost log incline and the log ceiling form a 135­­° corner. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4.4 HARD PUZZLES It's getting harder and harder. At first I didn't really notice the difference in difficulty that much, to be honest... Puzzles don't get a lot harder until after level 20 or so. Still, they're more than worth solving! LEVEL 1: THINGS THAT GO BOOM!!! 1) Place a rocket above the match-on-a-string, on the brick floor. 2) Place a trolley behind the phazer gun (on its left). 3) Connect the phazer gun with the lower side of the teeter-totter using the trolley. 4) Place the missile on the brick wall under the two blimps. 5) Place the flashlight between the rocket and the fireworks. Shine at the fireworks' fuse. 6) Place the magnifying glass between the fireworks and the flashlight. The reflecting side must be right. LEVEL 2: CURIE AND THE FISH SQUISH 1) Place the flashlight under the baseball. Shine right. 2) Place the magnifying glass next to the flashlight. Reflect left. 3) Place a candle next to the magnifying glass. 4) Place a blimp on the right side of the candle, so that it can fire the can- non when it explodes. 5) Place two small inclines (left side up) next to each other, above the bottom left aquarium. They should block the way between caution floor 4 and 7*. 6) Place the springboard on the left side of caution floor 6*. 7) Place two more inclines above the springboard: a small one on the left and a standard one on the right. They should pretty much cover the complete length of the springboard together. *) I've numbered the caution floors on the right from top to bottom, left to right. That means: _1_ _2_ _3_ _4_ _5_ _6_ _7_ __________________________________________ LEVEL 3: NEWTON'S CAFE 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the rightmost Newton Mouse. 2) Place a springboard on the right side of the middle wooden wall (the one where four other mice are waiting). 3) Place two pieces of cheese on the top left wooden floor. 4) Place the boxing glove on the right side of the cheeses, punching left. LEVEL 4: CURIOUS CURIE 1) Place the cue between the two tennis balls, aiming at the pinball. 2) Place a trailer under the lower bowling ball, with the high end on the left. 3) Place Newton Mouse on the small floor Curie is looking at. 4) Place an incline next to the incline under Newton Mouse, same length and direction. 5) Place the hedge trimmers next to the top bowling ball, handles to the left. LEVEL 5: CAGE THE KITTY 1) Place the phazer gun on the left side of the trolley. Aim at the dynamite. 2) Place a balloon under the trolley. 3) Connect the balloon and the phazer gun using the trolley. 4) Place a curved pipe on the left side of the bottom left accelerator, ope- nings up and right. 5) Place a curved pipe on the right side of the bottom left accelerator, ope- nings up and left. 6) Place an accelerator on the right side of the top left curved pipe. Accelerate right. 7) Place an electric motor under the switched outlet. The belt wheel should be right. 8) Connect the motor with the conveyor belt. 9) Use a small piece of incline to close the hole in the big incline. 10) Place a brick wall on the right side of the two curved pipes above each other on the left, so that the cat isn't launched off the screen when the puzzle runs. LEVEL 6: TARGET PRACTICE 1) Place a curved pipe next to the rightmost pipe, openings left and down. 2) Place the TNT remote on the sand floor under "your" curved pipe. Place the dynamite next to the grass wall, at the same height as the boxing glove. 3) Connect the two pipes on the left with a curved pipe. 4) Add another curved pipe on the left side of the only regular pipe, openings left and down. 5) Place the last curved pipe under the left bowling ball, openings up and left, on the same height as the lower left curved pipe. 6) Place an accelerator on the empty spot between the pipes on the left. It should fit exactly. 7) Place the magnifying glass next to the flashlight, reflecting left. 8) Place the cannon next to the magnifying glass. Aim up-right at a small an- gle. LEVEL 7: PLURAL POP 1) Place an anti-gravity pad on the right side of the lower incline. 2) Place a curved pipe above the left anti-gravity pad. Openings down and right. Level the right side with the upper brick floor. 3) Add an accelerator on the right side of that curved pipe. The accelerator should level with the upper brick floor. 4) Place a curved pipe on the right side of the screen. Openings left and down. Level the left opening with the upper floor, the bottom opening should be right above the nitro. 5) Place a tack above the right balloon, pointing down. LEVEL 8: LASER COFFEE 1) Place the pinball above the right switched outlet. 2) Use the mirrors so that all lasers end up in the mixer. Keep trying, I can't help you on this one very much. LEVEL 9: NEWTON GOES BOWLING 1) Place a piece of cheese on the small floor in the top-right corner. 2) Place the TNT remote on the floor under the right bucket. The dynamite goes under the floor on top of the left "shaft" (between the two walls). 3) Place the laser-activated plug under the conveyor belt. Set it to red. 4) Place the motor between the laser-activated plug and the conveyor belt. Connect it with the conveyor belt. The belt on the motor should be on the right side. 5) Use the mirrors so that the laser activates the plug. LEVEL 10: TOAST ROAST 1) Place the accelerator directly under the fireworks, accelerating left. 2) Place a curved pipe on the right side of the accelerator. Openings up and left. The upper opening should be directly under the basketball. 3) Place the hedge trimmers with the handles above the jack-in-the-box, so that it can cut the left balloon rope. 4) Place the fan next to the left switched outlet. Blow right. 5) Place a conveyor belt under the baseball, as small as possible. 6) Place the mouse motor under the conveyor belt. The mouse should run right. 7) Connect the conveyor belt with the mouse motor. LEVEL 11: CLASH OF THE CRITTERS 1) Place a piece of cheese on the right side of Newton Mouse. 2) Place the can opener next to the outlet in the upper left corner. 3) Place one cannon on the left, with the fuse next to the magnifying glass. The cannon should fire in upper right direction, small angle. 4) Place the other cannon on the right, fuse next to the magnifying glass. The cannon should fire left (straight). 5) Place the TNT remote under the gap between the two inclines on the right. The dynamite goes under the right flashlight. LEVEL 12: CHEESE PLEASE 1) Place the TNT remote on the lower side of the leftmost incline. The dynamite goes above the cage, between the brick floors. 2) Place the other TNT remote next to the cinder block wall, next to the egg timer. The dynamite goes next to the other dynamite. 3) Place the anti-gravity pad in the gap next to the bottom right piece of cheese. 4) Place the flint rocks underneath the rocket. 5) Put a motor next to the switched outlet. The bandwheel must point left. 6) Connect the motor with the conveyor belt. LEVEL 13: DANGER BLIMP 1) Place the TNT remote under the pinball, and the dynamite in the caution box in the top left corner. 2) Place a match on a string under the fireworks with the rope eye on the left side. 3) Place two trolleys: one above the bucket, and one next to the match. 4) Connect the bucket with the match using the upper trolley first, and the bottom trolley next. LEVEL 14: POMPEIAN RHAPSODY 1) Place the match on a string next to the left side of the temple roof. The rope-eye should be on the left side. 2) Place a balloon above the left trolley. 3) Connect the balloon with the match using the trolley. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom right gap. 5) Place a motion transformer above the mouse motor, rope up. 6) Connect the transformer with the mouse motor. 7) Connect the transformer with the lava lamp using the trolley. 8) Place the inclines above the anti-gravity pad so that the candle will acti- vate the mouse motor. LEVEL 15: BLIMP-BE-GONE 1) Place the pinball "in" the top right bucket. 2) Place the mouse motor under the baseball. The mouse runs left. 3) Place a conveyor belt (maximum size) under the fireworks. 4) Connect the conveyor belt and the motor mouse. 5) Place two anti-gravity pads in the lower left gap. LEVEL 16: NEWTON'S SPECIAL BREW 1) Place an incline under the coffeepot so that it closes the gap correctly. 2) Place a piece of cheese in the top right corner of the screen. 3) Place the bike pump under the top right gap, next to the pinwheel. Blow left. 4) Place the motion transformer above the pinwheel, rope up. 5) Connect the motion transformer and the pinwheel. 6) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom left gap between the wall and the incline. 7) Place the match on a string under the aquarium, rope-eye right. 8) Place three trolleys: one on the left side of the match, one above it and one under Newton Mouse. 9) Connect the match with the motion transformer, using all trolleys. LEVEL 17: MEL ON THE MOVE 1) Place the dynamite on the top right floor, fuse left. 2) Place the nitro on the floor (NOT the incline) underneath that floor. 3) Place three phazer guns: one aiming at the balloon, one aiming at the nitro and one aiming at the dynamite stick. They all aim left and are positioned between the second vertical wall from the left and Mel. 4) Place three teeter-totters between the vertical walls on the left: one in the bottom-left corner (right side up), one next to the leftmost trolley (left side up) and one underneath the incline (right side up). 5) Connect the high end of each teeter-totter with the phazer gun closest to it. 6) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom gap. NOTE: You don't need to use any of the trolleys! LEVEL 18: EDISON'S BREAKFAST 1) Place the boxing glove between the blimp and the balloon. Hit the balloon against the tack so that Newton Mouse falls straight down. 2) Place the mouse motor under the boat cleat. The mouse runs to the right. 3) Connect the mouse motor with the conveyor belt. 4) Place the scissors in the rope attached to the hot air balloon. Place them so that the tennis ball will "make the cut". 5) Place a trolley under the lava lamp. 6) Connect the lava lamp string to the lower side of the trailer. 7) Place the toaster above the solar panel outlet, with the lever to the left. 8) Place the 8-ball above the toast. LEVEL 19: MEL'S MINE FIELD *) This is the easiest solution I found, there are quite some possible solu- tions available though. 1) Place an anti-gravity pad under the lowest wooden floor, directly under the three Mel's. 2) Place the accelerator on the second wooden floor from the top, directly above the anti-gravity pad. Accelerate up. 3) Place a curved pipe above the accelerator, openings left and down. LEVEL 20: MEL TAKES A HIKE 1) Place an anti-gravity pad in the gap of the bottom right granite floor. 2) Place the motor between Mel and the laser-activated plug. The belt holder should be right. 3) Connect the motor with the big gear. 3) Place the blue laser next to the right switched outlet. Aim at the bottom mirror. LEVEL 21: THE BIG BALLOON BUMMER 1) Place the boxing glove on the right side of the bowling ball, hitting the bowling ball. 2) Place the pinball flipper on the right side of the log wall, so that it "flippers" the bowling ball up when it's hit. 3) Place a conveyor belt (smallest size) under the top pinball. 4) Place a motor mouse under that conveyor belt so that it's activated by the "flippered" bowling ball. 5) Place the red laser next to the switched outlet. Aim at the air balloon fuse. 6) Place the anti-gravity pad under the incline, under the silver balloon. LEVEL 22: JOLLY JOLLY JUMPIN' JACK 1) Place a wooden floor at the bottom of the screen under the nitro, so that the nitro can blow away both floor and wall. 2) Use the curved pipes and the straight pipe to send the phazer gun bullet to the happy face balloon. So: place one curved pipe at the top right side of the screen (openings left and down), place one at the bottom right side of the screen (openings left and up) and connect them with the straight pipe. 3) You've done the trickiest part so far. Place the flashlight under the right bucket. 4) Place the magnifying glass next to the flashlight. 5) Place the cannon next to the magnifying glass. Aim right, as high as pos- sible. The pinball will fall down the small gap between the caution walls. 6) Place the switched outlet in the small gap, on the left side of the nitro. It fits exactly. 7) Place the blue laser next to the switched outlet. Shoot up, on the right side of the caution wall above. 8) Use the mirrors to reflect the laser beam towards the end of the dynamite fuse. LEVEL 23: ROCKET RACKET 1) First, we'll place some gears. Place a big gear next to the bottom left motor mouse, place a small gear next to it. Place two big gears on the left side of the right bowling ball. 2) Now, we must connect them. Connect the motor mouse with the top big gear (the first you placed). Connect the small gear with the left big gear (the left of the two gears you placed second). Connect the right gear with the conveyor belt. *) If done correctly, the right bowling ball flies all the way to the right. 3) Place the bike pump on the right side of the silver balloon. Blow left. 4) Place the laser-activated plug between the teeter-totter and the fireworks. Make it blue. 5) Now it is time for a little self-induction (something I learned at physics class, forget about it). Place a blue laser next to the laser-activated plug. Now place two mirrors, so that the laser activates its own plug. 6) Add another blue laser and use a mirror to send the beam to the fuses of the fireworks and the rocket. LEVEL 24: TRICK SHOT 1) Take the cue. The tip of the cue must point down and left. Make it hit the white ball a bit on the right side of it. This takes some accurancy and it might take a couple of tries before you make this shot. I will try to make things clear in the following crappy ASCII drawing. Let's say the diamond is the white ball (I can't draw ASCII, I warned ya before!) and the X's is the cue. It should look something like this: X X /\ X / \ \ / \/ 2) Place the baseball above the cue to activate it. LEVEL 25: FIRE SHOW SHENANIGANS 1) Place the TNT remote control under the bottom incline on the right. the ex- plosives go under the brick floor where the rocket is positioned. 2) Cover almost the entire bottom of the screen with a piped floor. The left side of the floor should be as far left as the left side of the brick floor. 3) Place the mouse motor directly above the rocket. Make the mouse walk left. 4) Place a conveyor belt (medium size) under the tennis ball. 5) Connect the mouse with the conveyor belt. 6) Place the flint rocks under the bottom left incline. Fireworks! LEVEL 26: LATE FOR BREAKFAST 1) Place a pair of scissors in the rope with the handles to the left. They should be a bit above the flashlight. 2) Place the baseball above the flashlight, so that it turns the flashlight on and rolls over to the scissors. Try this a couple of times, experimenting with the positions of the scissors and the baseball, until you've got it right. 3) Put a magnifying glass between the flashlight and the rocket fuse. 4) Place the green laser next to the switched outlet. Aim at the hot air bal- loon fuse. 5) Place an accelerator next to the curved pipe, on the left. Accelerate RIGHT! (which means you accelerate back through the curved pipe). 6) Connect the motion transformer with the generator. 7) Place the red and blue laser in the generator socket. Aim them both at the laser mixer. 8) Use the mirror to direct the magenta beam to the laser-activated plug. LEVEL 27: CURIE AND THE CANNON 1) Place the accelerator under the baseball on the right. Accelerate up. 2) Place a green laser next to the switched outlet on the right. Aim at the green laser-activated plug and the candle fuse. 3) Place the trap door underneath the candle so that it doesn't fall down. 4) Put the coffee pot in the piped hole above the candle. 5) Put the fan next to the laser-activated plug. Aim at the pinwheel. 6) Connect the pinwheel with the motion transformer. You don't need any of the gears. 7) Place the match on a string under the cannon fuse. The rope-eye should be right. 8) Place the trolley on the right side of the match. 9) Connect the cannon with the motion transformer using the trolley. LEVEL 28: PATRIOTIC POP-A-TRON 1) Place a pair of scissors next to the phaer gun. The handles should point right and the scissors must cut the rope that's connected to the happy face balloon. 2) Place a red laser next to the switched outlet. Aim at the red laser-activa- ted plug. 3) Place a blue laser next to the red laser-activated plug. Aim it at the blue laser-activated plug, but DON'T place it above the happy face balloon! 4) Place a green laser next to the blue laser-activated plug. 5) Place the lava lamp next to the cannon fuse, above the left trolley. 6) Connect the lava lamp with the hot air balloon using both trolleys. 7) Place a pair of scissors above the anti-gravity pad. Handles left, cutting the rope attached to the dog balloon. LEVEL 29: IMMOBILIZED MEL 1) Place a springboard under the right tube of nitro. 2) Place the other springboard in the bottom left corner of the screen. 3) Place a tennis ball under where the caution stairs stop, in the narrow path. LEVEL 30: FREE SMILEY 1) Place the springboard under the nitro. 2) Place the fan next to the solar panel outlet. Blow right. LEVEL 31: ROCKETROPOLIS 1) Place the toaster's lever under the bottom tennis ball. The lever should be on the right side of the toaster. Make the toast black. 2) Place a mouse motor next/under the bottom tennis ball. The mouse should run left. 3) Place a small and a big gear next to each other above the mouse motor. 4) Connect the mouse motor with the small gear. 5) Place a conveyor belt (medium size) under the baseball. 6) Connect the conveyor belt with the big gear. 7) Place a blue laser next to the switched outlet. Aim left. 8) Place the laser-activated plug under the toaster, so that it can be acti- vated by the blue laser. Alas, make it blue. Now, hover the mouse over the toaster so that it plugs in to the laser-activated plug. If not, drag the toaster a bit towards the plug. 9) Place the bike pump between the upper and middle piped floors, in the gap. Blow at the right tennis ball. 10) Place the pinball flipper on the right side of the right tennis ball, in the gap. The tennis ball should "fly" over to the top piped floor. Try this a couple of times. 11) Place the flint rocks under the rocket fuse. *) This puzzle is pretty hard to pull off, because quite some things are pixel-accurate. But you will manage to solve it after a couple of tries. Just shove some parts around and you'll make it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4.5 REALLY HARD PUZZLES Okay, so far so good. Now it's time to smash your head at your screen (not to mention the RSI-arm you'll end up with) with puzzles which look pretty unsol- vable. Do not worry anymore, this FAQ will lead you through the hardest puz- zles of the game! LEVEL 1: EXIT LAUGHING 1) Place a teeter-totter above the bike pump and the Greco-Roman wall. The upper side of the teeter-totter should be right, above the bike pump. 2) Place the balloon in the long "tunnel" of Greco-Roman walls, under the teeter-totter. 3) Place another balloon next to the motion transformer, in the bike pump's line of wind. Place it under the lower floor, not the higher one! So, make sure the balloon will touch the transformer when it's blown by the pump. 4) Place the egg-timer next to the coffee pot. The timer should push the coffee pot over to the right, on the trailer. For your convenience, set it to 0 seconds. Now try the puzzle, to see if the bucket falls on the timer. If not, move the timer around a bit until it does. 5) Place the anti-gravity pad directly above the left trailer (underneath the doggie balloon). LEVEL 2: THE CRITTER-GITTER CAT TRAP 1) Place a balloon in the bottom right corner of the screen. 2) Place the incline (left side up, medium size) in the top left corner of the screen, above the balloon. 3) Place the coffee pot on the lower small piped floor, under the Einstein head (or is it a Bach head? Whatever...). 4) Place the match on a string under the coffee pot. 5) Connect the match on a string with the lower side of the upper right trai- ler. LEVEL 3: LIL' MEL'S JAIL BREAK 1) Place the red laser in the left power outlet. Aim at the top left mirror. 2) Place the blue laser in the left power outlet. Aim at the mirror, next to the top left mirror. 3) Place the motor under the laser-activated plug. The belt holder must point right. 4) Connect the motor with the upper conveyor belt. 5) Place a motion transformer under the trailer. The rope-eye should point right. 6) Connect the motion transformer with the trailer and the conveyor belt. 7) Place the anti-gravity pad under the "jail". 8) Use the (straight and curved) pipes to connect the left curved pipe to the right curved pipe. It should look something like this: ___ |VVV| |VVV| ______ |___| | | | |__ ______ | __| | | 1 | |___| |______|__ | | 5 | |___| |___| | |__ ____ __| | | 2 | 4 | 3 | |______|____|______| I've numbered all parts you should add. The easiest way is to add them in this order. Anyway, this isn't too hard to accomplish, I guess... LEVEL 4: LASER BALLOON BLITZ 1) Connect the mouse motor with the generator. 2) Place a fan next to the laser-activated plug. Blow in the direction of the balloon. 3) Place the dynamite stick under the top right caution wall, next to the red laser. 4) Place the missile on the bottom caution floor, with the fuse on the left. The blimp above will light the fuse. If not, experiment! LEVEL 5: BALLOON OVER MANHATTAN 1) Place a little piece of floor in the gap between the two inclines 2) Place the flashlight next to the solar panel. The pinball on top of the screen will turn it on. 3) Place the motor next to the solar panel (do not block the gap). The belt holder must point left. 4) Connect the motor with the left motion transformer. 5) Place a pair of scissors in the rope that's connected to the hot air bal- loon. Place the scissors under the cinder block gap. 6) Place the motion transformer under the largest incline. The rope-eye must point right. 7) Connect the right vertical motion transformer with the horizontal motion transformer, using the upper trolley. 8) Connect the left vertical motion transformer with the horizontal motion transformer. LEVEL 6: POOL BALL SINKER 1) Place a springboard under the bottom pinball. 2) Place a Jack-in-the-box under the top pinball. The handle must point right. 3) Connect the Jack-in-the-box with the motor. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad above the 8-ball, touching the right pool wall. 5) Place the boxing glove next to the bowling ball, punching left. LEVEL 7: MEGA-LAUNCH 1) Place a motor next to the switched outlet. Belt holder left. 2) Place a Jack-in-the-box under the bucket. Handle left. 3) Connect the motor and the Jack-in-the-box. 4) Place a match on a string under the missile. Rope-eye left. 5) Connect the bucket with the match using the trolley. 6) Place the flashlight on the right side of the bottom left incline. Shine right. 7) Place a magnifying glass between the flashlight and the fireworks. 8) Place an anti-gravity pad between the left caution wall and the incline. 9) Attach a curved pipe on the left side of the accelerator. Openings down and right. 10) Build a caution wall next to the left caution wall and the curved pipe, all the way down, so you create some sort of shaft. 11) Now build a caution floor, read carefully! Level the surface of the floor with the bottom of the right curved pipe. The left side of the caution floor should be as far left as the left side of the trap door. The right side of the caution floor should be as far right as the left side of the missile. Not clear? Take a look at my beautiful ASCII drawing! ___ ____________ |_ 3| 1: trap door ____------2----- |_| 2: caution floor |1 3: curved pipe | 4: missile || 4| 12) Finally, place the flint rocks under the rocket. LEVEL 8: NEWTON'S DILEMMA 1) Place two anti-gravity pads in the gap next to Newton (one actually is enough, but let's just make sure Newton doesn't fall). 2) Let's first place all the cheese in the field at once. A. In the bottom left corner of the screen. B. In the bottom right corner of the screen. C. On the small floor in the top right corner. D. On the right side of the upper anti-gravity pad. E. On the small platform, top-right of the upper anti-gravity pad. 3) Place the egg-timer on the right side of the pinball, with the shooting arm on the left. Set it to at least 3 seconds. 4) Place the motor next to the switched outlet. The belt holder points left. 5) Place a big and a small gear next to each other above the motor. 6) Connect the motor with the small gear, and the conveyor belt with the big gear. LEVEL 9: BRAIN TEASER BREAKOUT 1) Place two medium-small sized inclines under the pinball. Upper side left. 2) Place a piece of log floor next to the lower side of "your" inclines. 3) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom left corner, next to the teeter- totter. 4) Place a big incline next to the lowest incline, upper side right. 5) Place a stick of dynamite on the floor between the TNT and the leaking bucket. 6) Place two trolleys: one above the leaking bucket and one next to it, above the laundry basket. 7) Connect the bucket with the basket using both trolleys. LEVEL 10: JACK'S BIG FAN 1) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom-right gap. 2) Place the egg-timer next to the left pinball, so that it punches the pin- ball to the left. For your convenience, set the timer to 0 seconds. 3) Use the flashlight and the magnifying glass to light the cannon. 4) Place the cue in the smallest gap somewhere in the middle of the screen. Shoot right. LEVEL 11: ILLUMINATED SCHLEMMING 1) Place a balloon above the tack. 2) Connect the balloon with the match-on-a-string using the trolley. 3) Place the rockets: One on the left side of the balloon pointing up (make sure it can leave the screen on top), and two rockets pointing right, le- veled with the candle fuses, so that the first rocket can light both rocket fuses. 4) Place the cannon, shooting left, on the small floor under the gap between the two floors that are leveled with the bottom candle. The cannon fuse should be just as high as the bottom candle. 5) Place the TNT remote in the small gap at the mid-bottom of the screen. The explosives go between the two wooden walls. *) If the middle rocket "bounces" over the candle, try moving it a bit to the left. LEVEL 12: SCHLEMMING IN DREAMLAND *) THANKS TO WILLY SPROECKEL FOR THE ANSWER TO THIS PUZZLE! 1) Place a zeppelin directly under Mel, heading right. 2) Place the hot air balloon on the left crocodile's head, so that Mel can walk over it. 3) Place the 5 balloons next to the hot air balloon, creating a "path" for Mel to walk on. 4) Place 5 boat cleets VERTICALLY under the balloons. 5) Connect the cleets with the balloons. Move the cleets a bit until all ropes are tense. 6) Place the two teeter-totters next to the rightmost sand floor, creating a diagonal path towards the house. 7) Place two tacks next to the left teeter-totter to complete the path home. LEVEL 13: LASERMANIA 1) Place a mouse motor in the bottom left corner, under the generator. Let him run left. 2) Place a conveyor belt (standard size) under the baseball. 3) Connect the left (small) gear with the mouse motor, the middle (big) gear with the conveyor belt and the right (small) gear with the generator. 4) Place the blue laser next to the top left green laser, in the green laser activated plug. Aim down, at the laser mixer. 5) Place the red laser on the left side of the cyan laser activated plug. Aim left, at the mirror next to the baseball. 6) Place the green laser under the blue laser-activated plug. Aim right, at the green laser-activated plug. 7) Place another green laser on the right side of the bottom right green laser activated plug. Aim right, at the closest mirror. 8) Place the laser mixer on the right side of the cyan laser activated plug. Aim at the plug. LEVEL 14: BALLISTIC BALLOON 1) Place the springboard under Mel. 2) Place two anti-gravity pads in the corner of the bottom left caution wall and floor. 3) Place the fan under the left switched outlet. Blow right. 4) Place the pinwheel next to the fan. Yellow side left. 5) Place a vertical motion transformer on the right side of the pinwheel. The rope eye must be up. 6) Connect the pinwheel with the motion transformer. 7) Place the egg-timer under the tennis ball, hitting the baseball. Set it to 7 seconds. 8) Place two anti-gravity pads on the right side of the small brick floor, next to the baseball. 9) Place the motor under the right switched outlet. The rope holder must point right. 10) Place a conveyor belt (maximum size) under the pinball. 11) Connect the pinball with the motor. 12) Place the wooden block in the corner on the left size of the explosives. 13) Place a flashlight with the switch under the small brick floor and the ex- plosives. Shine left. 14) Place a magnifying glass next to the flashlight. 15) Place a cannon next to the magnifying glass. Shoot left, as high as pos- sible. 16) Place a magnifying glass next to the hot air balloon. 17) Place a flashlight next to the magnifying glass. 18) Use the walls to "guide" the launched pinball to the flashlight switch. 19) Place the tin snip above the hot air balloon, to cut the steel cable. 20) Take a 15-minute break to avoid RSI. LEVEL 15: MISSILE VS. BLIMP 1) Place a conveyor belt onder the right baseball. 2) Place a motor mouse in the bottom left corner between the two brick floors. Let him run left. 3) Connect the motor mouse with the conveyor belt. 4) Place a flashlight on the left side of the conveyor belt. Shine left. 5) Place a magnifying glass next to the flashlight to light the dynamite. 6) Place the fan next to the left switched outlet. Blow towards the soccer ball. 7) Place an accelerator and two curved pipes on the left side of the soccer ball, so that the ball goes through and ends up between the two brick floors. It fits exactly. 8) Place the motor on the left side of the switched outlet (under the teeter- totter). 9) Connect the motor with the Jack-in-the-box. 10) Connect the lower side of the right teeter-totter with the lava lamp using the trolley (hidden under the left switched outlet). 11) Place a magnifying glass on the left side of the lava lamp. 12) Place the cannon next to the magnifying glass. Aim at the lower side of the left teeter-totter. 13) Connect the high end of the left teeter-totter with the match-on-a-string. LEVEL 16: RODENT RESTAURANT 1) Place a conveyor belt (smallest) under the topmost tennis ball. 2) Connect the conveyor belt with the mouse motor. 3) Place the flashlight next to the conveyor belt. 4) Place the red and green laser in the solar panel socket. Aim right. 5) Place a laser mixer next to the lasers. Aim at the yellow laser-activated plug. *) You're half way there now. 6) Place a teeter-totter above the left "brick shaft" (above the super ball). The low end should be right and above the super ball. 7) Place the horizontal motion transformer on the right side of the left brick shaft. 8) Connect the low end of the teeter-totter with the horizontal motion trans- former. 9) Place a conveyor belt (medium size) above Mel. 10) Connect the conveyor belt with the horizontal motion transformer. 11) Place a bike pump above the third brick wall from the left, with the han- dles left (above the right anti-gravity pad). 12) Place the pinwheel next to the bike pump. 13) Connect the pinwheel with the vertical motion transformer. 14) Connect the vertical motion transformer with the low end of the trailer. 15) Place a fan above the switched outlet, a bit to the right. Blow towards the soccer ball. 16) Connect the low end of the right trailer with the mandrill motor using the trolley underneath. 17) Place three big gears under the mandrill motor, next to each other. Con- nect the left gear with the mandrill motor and the right gear with the conveyor belt under the coffee pot. 18) Place some flint rocks on the wooden floor, between the trailer and the coffee pot. LEVEL 17: FIREWORKS BERSERK 1) Place a mouse motor next to the grass floor (top right corner). Let him run left. 2) Connect the mouse motor with the conveyor belt under the top pinball. 3) Place a phazer gun between the aquarium and the cheese. Aim at the aqua- rium. 4) Connect the high end of the right teeter-totter with the phazer gun. 5) Connect the low end of the left teeter-totter with the mandrill motor. 6) Connect the mandrill motor with the conveyor belt above. 7) Place a flashlight, magnifying glass and cannon next to the conveyor belt with the beach ball. Aim the cannon right, a bit up. 8) Use the curved pipe to direct the launched ball to the TNT remote. 9) Place the red and blue laser next to the switched outlet. Aim both at the laser mixer. 10) Use the mirrors to aim the mixed beam at the laser-activated plug. 11) Place the fan next to the laser-activated plug. Blow right. 12) Place the pinwheel next to the fan. Connect it with the bottom right con- veyor belt. The blue side of the pinwheel must point left. 13) Place the boxing glove between the baseball and the pinball. Aim at the baseball. LEVEL 18: BIG JOB, LITTLE MOUSE 1) Place an accelerator under the basketball. Aim up. 2) Place a trailer above the basketball, next to the rope with the bucket. The left side must be lowered. 3) Place the hedge trimmers under the high end of the trailer. 4) Place the can opener on the right side of the switched outlet. 5) Use the six gears and the four belts to connect the mandrill motor with the conveyor belt (under the tennis ball). Use the right wall to work your way up. 6) Place the egg-timer next to the bowling ball, as close to it as possible. Make it hit the bowling ball after 0 seconds. 7) Place a leaking bucket (maximum volume) in the small "shaft". 8) Connect both leaking buckets using both trolleys. LEVEL 19: FANDANGO 1) Place the bike pump above Mel. Blow right. 2) Place the red and green laser next to the left switched outlet. Aim right. 3) Place the laser mixer next to the lasers. 4) Use the mirrors to aim the mixed beam at the laser-activated plug. 5) Place a motor (belt holder left) next to the laser-activated plug. Place it as high as possible. 6) Connect the motor with the small conveyor belt under the beach ball. 7) Place a vertical motion transformer under the mandrill motor. Connect it to the mandrill motor (belt) and the lower side of the teeter-totter (rope). The rope eye must be up. 8) Place a horizontal motion transformer under the doggie balloon. Connect it with the balloon (rope) and the generator (belt). The rope eye must be left. 9) Place a mouse motor under the high end of the left teeter-totter. Let him run left and connect it to the conveyor belt under the soccer ball. 10) Place a curved pipe next to the accelerator, openings left and down. LEVEL 20: IT'S HIP TO DRIP 1) Place a switched outlet directly under the left leaking bucket. 2) Place a motor next to the switched outlet, on the right. 3) Place a Jack-in-the-box directly under the low end of the trailer. Connect it with the motor. 4) Place the TNT remote under the high end of the trailer. The explosives go in the yellow brick corner under the piped floor and the bowling ball. 5) Place a tennis ball above (or "in") the right leaking bucket. *) This way, you don't need the egg-timer anymore. If you want to use the egg- timer for extra security, make it punch the bowling ball after at least 5 seconds. Use another tennis ball to activate the egg-timer. LEVEL 21: MIND-MIXER 1) Place some nitro on the left side of the bowling ball, and on the right side of the big incline, so that it fits between the incline and the small wooden floor where the baseball lies on. 2) Place a curved pipe under the bowling ball, next to the incline. 3) Place an accelerator next to the curved pipe. Accelerate right. It should fit exactly between the curved pipe and the incline. 4) Place a mouse motor in the top right corner of the wooden walls. Don't place it all the way in the corner, but a bit down and to the left. Connect it with the generator. 5) Place one of the lasers under the generator. Aim down, at the nitro. 6) Use a mirror to guide the laser beam to the laser mixer. 7) Place the other laser above the solar panel socket. Aim at the top mirror. LEVEL 22: THE ULTIMATE SCHLEMMING 1) Place the leaking bucket on the left side of Mel. 2) Connect the leaking bucket (left) to the other bucket (right) using all five trolleys from left to right, set on maximum leakage. 3) Place a conveyor belt (smallest) under the candle. 4) Place an anti-gravity pad in the bottom right corner, somewhere between the mirror and the log floor. 5) Place a mouse motor above the trolley between the log floor and the trai- ler. Let him run right. It's the second floor from the bottom. 6) Place a Jack-in-the-box under the low end of the upper trailer. Connect it with the mouse motor. 7) Place a springboard on the left side of the smallest log floor. 8) Place the TNT remote control on the roof of the house, under the bucket. The explosives go under the candle, between the accelerator and the springboard. 9) Place the solar panel on the top log floor (top left corner), on the right side of that floor. 10) Place a laser next to the solar panel socket. Aim at the laser detector. 11) Place the rocket on the left side of the top floor. Aim right. The fuse should be above the accelerator. LEVEL 23: BLAST-A-BLIMP 1) Connect the phazer gun with the empty bucket. 2) Place the hedge trimmers in the rope, on the same level as the phazer gun. 3) Place the boxing glove on the left side of the pinball, punching it. 4) Place a bike pump under the first gap in the top floor. Blow right. 5) Place the other bike pump under the second gap, blowing left. 6) Place a pinwheel between the bike pumps. 7) Connect the pinwheel with the generator. 8) Place the laser next to the generator. Aim down at the missile fuse. LEVEL 24: ENCHANTED KINGDOM 1) Place a trailer with the high end on the right under the pinball. 2) Connect the low ends of the trailers. 3) Place the blimp above and on the right side of the match-on-a-string. Make him fly left. 4) Place a trailer under the red laser and the switched outlet, with the high end on the left. 5) Connect the high end of that trailer with the lava lamp. 6) Place the magnifying glass next to the lava lamp, on the right. 7) Place the hot air balloon next to the magnifying glass. *) If done correctly, Mel lands on the blimp underneath, which brings him off the screen. It depends mostly on where you place the hot air balloon. Move it around if you don't get it at once. LEVEL 25: POOLIN' AROUND 1) You need four pool cues. One should shoot the white ball to the left, a bit on the lower side. One should hit the 3-ball and shoot it straight to the left. The third cue must hit the 11-ball and shoot it down. The fourth cue must hit the 14-ball on the left side, and shoot it down. 2) Place an incline next to the cue next to the white ball. Left side down. 3) Place a tennis ball on the incline. *) This one is a real pain to solve completely! This is what happens when you have done everything correctly: the white ball bounces off the top cushion, sinks the 9-ball, immediately hits the left cushion, hits the cue which sinks the 11-ball. The 10-ball gets sunk by the bounced-off 1-ball. Final- ly, the white ball hits the 2-ball. The 2-ball hits the cue which sinks the 14-ball, then bounces off the right cushion and the incline, sinks the 13- ball and finally hits the cue, which hits the 3-ball. The 3-ball sinks the 12-ball. It took me exactly 137 tries to get it correct, so... good luck? LEVEL 26: BEAM SCREAM 1) Place the crocodile with its beak on the left under the basketball. 2) Place a conveyor belt under the tennis ball. Make sure an anti-gravity pad fits on the right of the conveyor belt. 3) Connect the conveyor belt with the mouse motor. 4) Place the anti-gravity pad next to the conveyor belt, under the outlet. 5) Place the green laser next to the switched outlet. Aim at the dynamite. 6) Place the pinball between the piped and cinder block walls. LEVEL 27: BASKETBALL BRAIN BUSTER 1) Place a match-on-a-string over the nitro. 2) Connect the match on a string with the bucket. 3) Place a coffee pot in the space above the nitro. Opening right. 4) Place a pinwheel above the coffeepot's opening, with the blue side left. 5) Place a conveyor belt under the basketball. 6) Connect the conveyor belt with the pinwheel. *) I wonder why this puzzle is in the really hard category. LEVEL 28: KITTY CATCHER 1) Place two big gears next the the big gear in the middle. It fits exactly. Connect the left of those gears with the top left mouse motor. 2) Place a mouse on top of that mouse motor. 3) Place a small and a big gear next to the bottom left mouse motor. It only fits in one way (on the right of the mouse motor, small gear under, big gear on top). Connect the big gear with the mouse motor and the small gear with the middle conveyor belt. 4) Place a small gear under the big gear on the right. Connect the small gear with the middle mouse motor. 5) Place a Jack-in-the-box on the left side under the empty bucket with the handle on the left. 6) Connect the Jack-in-the-box with the big gear next to the scissors. LEVEL 29: TIM2 CONTEST CHAMPION! *) By far the funniest and most intelligent puzzle of them all, because of the use of certain things in a different way than normal. 1) Place a Jack-in-the-box in the hole between the crocodile and the convey- or belt. Handle right. 2) Place three big gears above the bottom conveyor belt, next to each other. Connect the first with the conveyor belt, the second with the mouse motor and the third with the Jack-in-the-box. 3) Place the baseball above the switched outlet. Make sure it falls down and doesn't get stuck. 4) Place the vacuum cleaner on top of the rightmost conveyor belt. 5) Connect the right motor with that conveyor belt. 6) Place a big gear on the left side of the bottom left big gear. Connect the right gear with the generator and the left gear with the mouse motor. 7) Place a piece of cheese on top of the left mouse motor, in the left cor- ner. 8) Connect the left motor with the conveyor belt above the bottom crocodile. 9) Place a big gear between the left mouse motor and the big gear next to it. 10) Place two small gears between the small gear and the springboard. Connect the right small gear with the big gear next to the left mouse motor. 11) Place a small gear and two big gears (high) above the crocodile. Connect the right (big) gear with the pinwheel and the left (small) gear with the top conveyor belt. 12) Place a teeter-totter (low end left) above the top conveyor belt and the incline. The left side of the teeter-totter is as far left as the left side of the incline.