Message 1 of LSNINGA:


Apologies is this is in the wrong group but there have been several requests
for help and solutions so here goes.........

   There have been a lot of requests for help on 7th Guest so I thought I
would post a solution for you all.All of the solutions are done by myself,
I'm not saying that these are the best ways of solving the puzzles but they
do work and that's all I'm interested in.

 All of these solutions worked for me, if you are having problems then it
may be because I've made a mistake whilst typing in the solution.Please
post any problems/complaints etc. to the newsgroup and NOT directly to me.


Note: This is not a hint file but a complete solution.Please do not read
on if you feel it will spoil your enjoyment of the game.


Installation problems
---------------------

  I'm not going to give solutions to all your installation problems because
there is a 7th Guest technical FAQ which I'm sure covers all of that.The
*most* common problem is a lack of free base memory,7th Guest will not
print a helpful 'You do not have enough memory' message it will instead
crash or lock up during the introduction.So if this happens to you then
try and free more memory by running Memmaker or using a memory manager
such as QEMM.

General
-------

  It might sound obvious but turn up the brightness level on your monitor
because you are moving around a dark house and some things are not easily
visible.Also if you get stuck on any problem or need a hint then go to the
library and look at the book on the table,doing this 3 times will solve
the puzzle automatically.This process is documented in the game instructions
but I mention it because I've heard people on the net discussing it as though
it was some sort of 'hidden feature' or 'cheat mode'.


  The puzzles do not have to be tackled in the same order that I've done
them in, however you will find that some puzzles cannot be accessed until
the earlier puzzles have been completed.


Solution
--------

  OK.Here we go.The game starts in the hall-way facing the large staircase.
Turn left and head for the dining room.


Dining Room
-----------

  The idea is to divide the cake into 6 equal pieces.Each piece of cake
should have 2 skulls,2 grave stones and 1 piece of plain icing.Solution is 
shown below: for the first piece of cake select all the sections with a 1
in it etc.

  1 1 1 1 6 6
  1 2 5 5 6 6
  2 2 5 5 4 6
  2 2 5 4 4 4
  3 3 3 3 3 4

 Leave the dining room and turn left to go into the kitchen


Kitchen
-------

  The idea of this puzzle is to arrange the cans to form a sentence.The clue
to the sentence is: Bashful Nomad craftily agiley meet secretly near my
underground vault.

The solution is:

SHY GYPSY SLYLY SPRYLY TRYST BY MY CRYPT

From the kitchen take the door on the right which leads into the alleyway and
the grate puzzle.

Grate
-----

   This is a sliding puzzle game and the idea is to make a round hole on the
right hand side.There are 6 positions in the puzzle,imagine them to be
numbered as shown below:

    1  2  3
    4  5  6     The moves to complete the puzzle are: 5,6,3,2,5,4,1,2,3
                  6,5,2,1,4,5,6,3,2

You now move through the grate into the maze.

Maze
----

   The maze is quite difficult and it's very easy to get lost and spend ages
walking around.There is a map of the maze on one of the bedroom rugs.The
moves to get through the maze are as follows:

F=Forward  L=Left   R=Right

 F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F - That's forward 9 times.  R,F,R,R,R,L,R,F,R,L 

You should now be in the crypt facing the coffin puzzle.

Crypt
-----

   It's a good idea to save the game at this point because it is very easy
to accidentally exit the puzzle before you've completed it.This means you'll
have to go through the maze again.

   The idea is to close all of the coffins.Imagine the coffins to be numbered
as shown below:

  1  2  3
  4  5  6
  7  8  9

 When you click on a coffin the adjacent coffins (but not diagonals) will
changed from open to closed (or vice-versa).So when you select coffin 5
then you will alter coffins 2,4,5,6 and 8.The coffins that change when
you select a specific coffin are listed below:

Selected                Change

1                       1,2,4,5
2                       2,1,3
3                       3,2,5,6
4                       4,1,7
5                       5,2,4,6,8
6                       6,3,9
7                       7,4,5,8
8                       8,7,9
9                       9,5,6,8

 1) To solve the puzzle first of all close the four corner coffins (1,3,7,9)

 2) To close the remaining coffins use the sequences listed below (click
 on the coffin numbers listed in the sequence):

 To Close coffin 2    -    2,4,6,7,9 
                 4    -    2,3,4,8,9
                 6    -    1,2,6,7,8
                 8    -    1,3,4,6,8
                 5    -    2,8,4,6,5

 Note: This will obviously not provide the quickest solution but it is a
 general solution to solve the puzzle whatever sequence of coffins are open.
 Just be aware that on occasions there are far quicker ways of solving the
 puzzle! It may be quicker to change coffins 2,4,6,8,5 to open and then
 clicking on coffin 5 to close them all at the same time.


Once you've solved this you'll end up back in the kitchen.Go back out into
the hallway and to the puzzle at the front door.

Spiders
-------

   In this puzzle you have 8 positions and the idea is to cover 7 of them
with a spider.When a spider is placed on the puzzle it must move diagonally
to a free space.The solution is below:

       1
     8   2
   7       3
     6   4
       5

Place spider    Move to

1               4
6               1
2               7
5               2
8               5
3               6
3

Now turn left and head back to the study.In the study examine the telescope
at the back of the room.

Telescope
---------

  The idea of this is to spell out a sentence by selecting the planets, you
can only select a planet that is connected to your previous choice.The
sentence you need to create is:

THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY

Now go through the back of the fireplace,this secret passage takes you
upstairs.Go forward,turn left and enter the second room on the left.

Bishops Puzzle
--------------

   The rug covering the floor where this puzzle appears is actually a map
of the maze,but we've already done that so who cares?? The idea of this
puzzle is to exchange the positions of the black and white bishops,the
pieces can move diagonally any number of squares but you cannot move them
top a square thats on a diagonal with a bishop of the opposite colour.This
puzzle is quite difficult.Image the board to be set up as follows:

Use the letters A-E and numbers 1-4 to identify each square.

4  B       W     Position A1 is the bottom left corner and E4 is top right.
3  B       W
2  B       W
1  B       W
   A B C D E

The solution is: A2,E2,D3 TO B1,B3 TO D1,E4,D3 TO C4,B1 TO A2,D1,C4,A2
C2 TO B1,A4,C2 TO E4,E2,C4 TO B3,B3 TO A4,B1 TO D3,D1,B3 TO A2,D3

You should now have 2 bishops swapped

A3,E3,D2 TO B4,B2 TO D4,E1,D2 TO C1,B4 TO A3,D4,C3 TO E1,C1

You should now have 3 bishops swapped

A3,E1 TO B4,A1,C3 TO E1,E3,C1 TO B2,B2 TO A1,B4 TO D2,D4,B2 TO A3,D2

Leave the bedroom through the door you entered and then move forward into
bedroom 2.

Bedroom 2
---------

  This is another puzzle where you have to make a sentence.You can move
backwards or forwards by either 3 or 5 spaces each time.There are no spaces
between words you have to use a star instead.The sentence is:

THE*SKY*IS*RUDDY*YOUR*FATE*IS*BLOODY

Leave the room turn R and go forward down the corridor until you reach the
games room.

Games Room
----------

  This is a common chess puzzle that has been seen many times.The idea is
to place 8 queens on the board making sure that no piece shares the same
row,column or diagonal.The golden rule is do not place a piece in the
corner! Imagine the board to be labelled as follows:

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
 A B C D E F G H

 Place the pieces on the following squares: A2  B4  C6  D8  E3  F1  G7  H5

Leave the games room by the main door and enter the first room on the right

Bedroom 3
---------
 The heart puzzle.This is another fairly simple puzzle and the idea is to
move the various gates so that the blood can flow through the maze.The
easiest way to solve the puzzle is to work your way backwards through the
maze, it soon becomes fairly obvious which gates need to be moved.

There are 30 gates which are roughly located in the positions shown below:

        01  02 03
   04 05 06 07 08 09
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17             18
19 20    21    22
23       24 25 26 27
   28    29    30

   To solve the puzzle click the following gates once: 16,8,3,6,4,10,11,12,13
30,27,22,25,29,23,28,20,19,17

This is a part of the game where people get stuck.You appear to have completed
all the vailable puzzles.You now need to go back to the study to watch a
sequence involving all the guests.

Now go back upstairs,turn left and enter the second room on the right.You
should now be in the bathroom.

Bathroom
--------

 This is another chess problem but this time with knights.For those unfamiliar
with chess the knight can move horizontally or vertically 2 squares and then
1 square to the side, thus making an L shape.The initial puzzle is shown
below and the idea of the puzzle is to swap the position of the black and
white pieces.

5 B B B B W
4 B B B W W
3 B B   W W
2 B B W W W
1 B W W W W
  A B C D E

  The moves to complete the puzzle are: B5,D4,B3,C1,A2,B4,C2,A3,C4,A5,B3,C5
E4,C3,D5,E3,C2,A3,B1,C3,A4,C5,D3,E5,C4,D2,E4,C3,D1,E3,C2,E1,D3,C1,A2,C3,E2
C1,B3,D4,C2,E1,D3,C1,B3,D4,E2,C1,D3,B2,C4,A3,C2,A1,B5,C5,A4,C3

Exit through the door, turn R and enter the first room on the left

Bedroom 4
---------

 This room has 2 coin puzzle where the idea is to turn over all of the coins.
The only rule is that you can only turn over a coin that is adjacent (but
not on a diagonal) to the previous coin.Hre is the order you should select
the coins:

Puzzle 1

     1
     2 3
     5 4 15
     6 7 14 13
       8  9 12
         10 11

Puzzle 2

         14 15
      21    16    17   
            11       10
   01 20 13 12 07 08 09
   02       03
      19    04    18
            05 06

 Go through the secret door at the back of the bedroom and into the chapel.

Chapel
------

  This puzzle has a series of coloured tiles and you have to move the the
start at the bottom left to the end tile at the top right.I'm not sure of
the rules to this puzzle but by trial and error I have found a way across: 
It's difficult to display this puzzle in ascii but hopefully you can see
what's going on.....

       12  14          Tile colours P=Purple,G=green,B=Blue,Br=Brown/Beige
         13
       11                       1=P     8=B
         10                     2=Br    9=B
           9                    3=P     10=B
         8                      4=Br    11=P
         7                      5=P     12=B
      4    6                    6=P     13=Br
     3   5                      7=P     14=Red - End
    2
   1
  S

  Turn right at the altar and you'll enter the lab.

Laboratory
----------

  This puzzle in the microscope is the hardest puzzle in the game and I
haven't been able to write a solution for it,several people have said they
would post it to me...........where is it??

  You can move your cell any direction either 1 or 2 squares.If you move
only 1 square the cell replicates itself.After your move your cell will
infect all adjacent cells by turning them to your colour.The winner is the
person with the most cells at the end of the game.The computer is very
difficult to beat so good luck! I have heard people say that if you go to
the book in the library for a clue then it makes the game slightly easier
to give you a chance to beat the comp[uter.This puzzle does not need to
be solved to complete the game.

When (if?) you complete this puzzle leave through the door which takes you
to the study.Now go upstairs, turn right and enter the first room on the
right.

Bedroom 5
---------

  This room has 2 card puzzles and it is very similar to the coin puzzles we
met earlier on.

Puzzle 1
--------

        14
     01 02 03
  09 08 13 04 12
     07 06 05
  10          11

Puzzle 2
--------

  06 05 04 01
     12       11
     13         14
     09       10
  07 08 03 02

  Exit through the middle door, turn left and walk down the corridor into
the nursery.

Nursery
-------

  This is a tricky block puzzle where you have to re-build the picture.There
are 12 places to click on to shift the blocks, imagine them to be numbered
as shown.It's difficult to make a clear and precise solution for this but
here goes anyway.........


   --9--8--7--
  |           |
  10          6
  |           |
  11          5
  |           |
  12          4
   --1--2--3--

 Click on 1 until it shows the currect block for this position (ie. the
bottom left part of the picture that contains the path, a rock ledge topped
with grass).Now click on 2 and 3 until they are both the same as the block
in the bottom left.Now click 5 and 6 until all the blocks are the same.Note
on many occasions it is not possible to get all blocks the same, in this case
you will have to re-start the puzzle or sometimes it's better to actually
leave the puzzle altogether and go back to it.

 When all blocks of the puzzle show the bottom left corner piece then click
the following positions.

 8,7,7,5,5,5,10,10,10 - It should now be complete

Now go into the dolls house and click on the drawer on the right side of the
room.

Dolls House
-----------

  This is a block puzzle where you have to move the blocks to form 3 rows
of 3 letter words.The solution is shown below:
    
    (1) (2) (3)
(12) D   A   T  (4)
(11) Y   O   B  (5)
(10) T   E   G  (6)
    (9) (8) (7)

    The three words you need to spell are: GET
                                           BOY
                                           TAD

The solution is : 10,12,11,9,4,11,1,6,5,9,6,9,4,1,12

 Go through the jack in the box which takes you to the study.Leave the study
and turn right into the music room.

Music Room
----------

  A simple but frustrating puzzle where you have to 'follow the leader'.All
you have to do is follow the notes as played, the keyboard layout and
notes to play are as follows:
 
 B B  B B B    B  B     B     B    B      B
W W WW W W W  W W   W W    W    W    W  W
           
           1      6 5   3  4    14   2  12
           10       7   8  15        11
                    9   16           13
                    17  18

Now leave the music room and go back to the front door.Turn and face the
staircase and click on the floor.You'll now be transported to the art
gallery

Art Gallery
-----------

  This puzzle works in the same way as the coffin puzzle with one slight
difference that makes it much harder.With the coffins there was only 2
positions (open or closed) but this puzzle has 3 positions for each block.
Imagine the blocks to be numbered as follows:

  1  2  3
  4  5  6
  7  8  9


 As with the coffin puzzle we start by making the four corners the same
colour (it doesn't matter which colour as long as they are all the same).
Now we need to get blocks 2,4,5,6,8 all the same colour.As before use
the following sequence to change the block required

For block 2 - 2,4,6,7,9
          4 - 2,3,4,8,9
          6 - 1,2,6,7,8
          8 - 1,3,4,6,8
          5 - 1,3,7,9,5,5

 Because there are 3 different positions for each block you may need to use
the above sequences twice.

 After following this sequence if 2,4,5,6,8 are different colours to the
corner blocks then click on 5 until they are the same.

 You should now have all the blocks the same colour.If they are all white (or
normal colour) then the puzzle is complete.

 If they are all red then run through the following sequence to complete
the puzzle :  1,2,2,3,4,4,5,6,6,7,8,8,9

 If they are all green then use this sequence:

 1,1,2,3,3,4,5,5,6,7,7,8,9,9

Just in case the above isn't very clear I'll give you an example.....

In the following example 1=Normal colour,2=Red,3=Green

 3 3 1
 2 1 2
 1 3 2

 So make all the corners the same colour.We already have 2 1's so we'll make
them all 1's.

Clicking on block 1 gives us

 1 1 1
 3 2 2
 1 3 2

Now click on block 9 twice

 1 1 1
 3 1 1
 1 2 1

We now do the sequence for block 4 (2,3,4,8,9) which gives us:

 3 3 3
 1 3 3
 3 1 3

Block 4 is still not the same as the others so we repeat the sequence (2,3,4
8,9) which gives us:

 2 2 2
 2 2 2
 2 3 2

Now block 8 is different so we run the sequence for that (1,3,4,6,8) and
we get:

 1 1 1
 1 1 1
 1 1 1    - Puzzle complete!

When the puzzle is complete go back upstairs, turn left and take the third
room on the right (next to the bathroom)

Attic on door
--------------

  There is a puzzle on the door which you must complete before you can enter
the attic.It's basically a solitaire game where the idea is to jump all the
pieces (knives) until you only have 1 piece left.

Here is the solution (imagine the positions to be numbered as shown below)

      01             At the start position 01 is empty
10  02  03  09
  04      06
      08    
 05         07

 The moves are: 4 to 1,7 to 4,3 to 7,5 to 2,10 to 3,1 to 6,9 to 8 and 7 to 4

You can now enter the door and go up to the attic.

Attic
-----

  There is a puzzle with a wooden house.I'm not sure of the rules of the
game but by trial and error I came up with this solution.Sometimes when
you select a window a series of other windows automatically light up, when
the instructions say up 1 or down 1 or whatever that means up 1 from the
last window that was lit and NOT from the previous choice you made.


 1) Click the 6th window from the left (bottom row),round window.

 2) Up 1 window (semi-circle)

 3) Right 1 (semic-circle)

 4) Left 1 (round window)

 5) Down 1 (semi-circle)

 You should now go to level 2

 1) Select the third window from the left (round window)

 You should now be on level 3

 1) Select the second window from the left (round window)


 The puzzle is now complete!

 Walk through the attic and open the door at the end to see the final
 sequence.You've just completed the game,hope you enjoyed it!

 
Regards,

James


