This page is dedicated to the Sierra game The Island of Dr Brain, and still under construction. A Castle page is coming up.
This game is built in a walkthrough section, which describes the paths between puzzles, and a puzzle section, which tries to help with the puzzles on all 3 levels.
First of all, prepare yourself before playing the game. If you don't have adequate manual help, get a Periodic Table of the Elements (Mendelev Table), an encyclopedia, a dictionary, atlas, calculator, paper and pen. Secondly, remember the regular cheat: save around it. When you fail to solve a puzzle, leave it, save, play again, use hint watch, restore, and complete the puzzle without using hints.
At the start of the game, you have to bypass the copyright protection. You should find it in your manual. Enter the correct data that fits the symbol the program shows you.
There's no bypassing this scene. You will have to do this every time you start up the game, even if you just restore an old game. Even though you'll always do this at novice level, you get a Gold Plaque.
You receive a Plaque for every puzzle you solve. Bronze for Novice, gold for expert level. A bronze plaque gets you 1 point, a gold one 3. You also earn points if you have hints left, the more you have, the more points you get. You can also get Extra Credit if you solve a puzzle several times. The total amount of possible points is 1000.
After landing on the island, you end in front of a wall. Click on the pieces in front of it to play the Shape Manipulation Puzzle.
In the room, press the red button on the table to turn on the monitor. Use the monitor to play the Algebra Puzzle. Click the receipt on the slot in the coffin. Solve the Logic Math puzzle. Click the disks on the poles on the table to the right. Solve the Towers of Hanoi. Then leave the room through the door you just opened.
First solve the jigsaw. Click a flamingo to start the Logic Pattern puzzle. Then click the sign for the Foreign Language Word Search.
Click the sign by the cliff for the Code Puzzle. Click the Botanic sign for the Animal Spot Puzzle. Click the basket with items on the door to the volcano for the Chemical Analysis puzzle.
Click the table near you to play the Magic Square Puzzle. Then open the door for the Spectrum Analysis puzzle.
In the next section, the Synonym (apple trees), Homonym (corn) and Antonym (ant hill) puzzles may be solved in random order. Whenever you solve a puzzle, click the apples/corn/watermelon on the scale at the end of the path. After all 3 items are placed on the scale, enter the hut.
In the hut, click the PC to play the Visual Pairing puzzle. Then click the key on the bookshelf for some General Knowledge puzzle.
In the next room, click on the cup section for the Liquid Weights puzzle. Then enter the elevator for the Physics Puzzle.
Then enter the Robot Room. Click any of the pink/yellow/green chips on the right into the back of the robot head, then click the PC to program the robot. Get one item at a time. Then, click the genetic tube on the circle in the table to the right and solve the Genetics Puzzle.
In the next room, click the panel for the Art Recognition Puzzle. Then click the organ for the Music Theory Puzzle.
Enter the final room. Push the button for the Logic Pattern Puzzle. Push the lever forward. Click on the machinery that just broke and remove the sparking plug. Click it on the PC for the Logic Gates puzzle. Then wait a little, pull the lever, and you've finished the game!
Here I attempt to push you into the right direction. Most of the puzzles are random, so an exact solution is not possible. Remember you can change difficulty at any time, in case a puzzle proves too much for you.
Entering the wall
Unfortunately, this one is both random and impossible to hint for. The biggest aid I can give you, is to not give up and make sure you don't leave any small gaps. If you ask for hints, keep a 6*8 square notice paper at hand.
Algebra bacteria
This one is manageable at novice level, at expert level it may get you more difficulty. First, set the blue, straight line to part the blue (and green, if there is any) section. On Expert level, you need to fit the parabole in the right place. Remember the following rules for the lines:
y = ax + b
Jigsaw: Right-click any time to see the full picture. Remember the larger sections: the boat, the rocks, palm tree, wheel, the dressed flamingos, and the floating giraffe. Use the edges. Listen to the click when you put down a piece: there is a different click for one that is, and for one that isn't in the right location.
Logic Sequence Flamingos: Note which are flashing, and in which colour they flash. Write down which flamingo causes which birds change into which colours. You can always solve this puzzle, no matter how much you change the birds.
On Expert level, there is a bird that flashes blue, one green, one purple. Try all the flamingos. You can find 2 that control the "blue" and "green" flamingo exclusively. There is also one that turns 4 flamingos into purple, and changes 3 back into red, leaving the one that should be purple in the destination colour.
Language WordSearch: As with most word searches, begin by looking at the less-frequent letters and other symbols. Blank spaces, ñ, ë, è, ï, é... In German, Z is useful. Also, look at double letters.
Note: There's some bugs here. You may have a double word in the list, and if you find them both, only one may be ticked. There are 2 workarounds: use the Hint Watch if you have only this word left, or click Exit and make a new puzzle.
At times the puzzle may not load at all, and you'll have to restart. And some of the words have REAL ODD translations...
Code Puzzle: There are 2 to 3 different techniques for mixing the words: Letter Swap, Insert/Delete Spaces, Word Swap. The word with the dot usually goes at the end, the word with the capital goes at the start. Note a quote may also contain names or I, or may consists of 2 or more phrases.
There's a limited amount of quotes used. I'm collecting them all and not yet finished at this. I'll blacken them for you. It's just Expert this far.
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree. -Osage saying
The best revenge is to live long enough to be a problem for your children. -Unknown
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it -Santayana
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -Dolly Parton
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. -Will Rogers
A good scare is worth more than good advice. -E.W. Howe
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. -Lena Horne
Losers visualize the penalty of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. -Dr Rob Gilbert
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. -Garrison Keillor
If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write! -Jackie Collins
I enjoy being an overpaid actor. -Roger Moore
Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. -Hedy Lamarr
It is much safer to be in a subordinate position than in one of authority. -Thomas a Kempis
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. -Malcolm Forbes
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire
A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. -?
There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. -Adella Rogers St Johns
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. -Anthony Burgess
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing. -Billy Rose
Old age is when your liver spots show through your gloves. -Phyllis Diller
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley
Few forgive without a fuss. -Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -Ann Landers
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -Mark Twain
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.-T.H. Huxley
I phoned my dad to tell him I quit smoking. He called me a quitter. -Steven Pearl
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. -Confucius
Old age is the most expected of all the things that happen to a man. -Lev Trotsky
Magic Square: First of all, note the Goal button. Click it to change the total squares so they show how much you still need in the row/column/diagonal, not how much you need in total. You will have to use some numbers more than once. If you have troubles, try to make as many rows and columns and diagonals as possible correct. Then double-check the numbers and see if you can tweek some up and down. Otherwise, just save and get a hint.
Spectrum Analysis Just try them all once. The Expert level is actually the easiest one: just figure out which 2 elements don't match the spectrum, then throw the other 6 on the fire.
LANGUAGE PUZZLE BUG: If you have to use the Hint Watch, you may find a thick black stripe through the puzzle and discover it's not responding. Haven't found the cure or the work-around. Don't use it! A dictionary is easier.
Antonym Hill: In the quotes, look for a word that means the opposite. Some of the words chosen are pretty unfortunate. I'm still collecting the phrases. But here's a list of Expert words for now.
Father, I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet. -George Washington
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. -George Washington
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. -John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy
Three men may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age, the will reigns, at thirty, the wit, at forty, the judgment. -Benjaming Franklin
There never was a good war, or a bad piece. -Benjamin Franklin
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. -John Adams
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. -Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? -Abraham Lincoln
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. -Abraham Lincoln
I should like to be known as a former president who tries to mind his own business. -Calvin Coolidge
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy, is its inefficiency. -Eugene McCarthy
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. -Thomas Jefferson
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -Henry Kissinger
Open convenants of peace openly arrived at. -Woodrow Wilson
Older men declare war. But it's youth that must fight and die. -Herbert Hoover
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. -R.L. Stevenson
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in times of trouble. -Adlai Stevenson
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he's trying to run away, it is best to let him run. -Abraham
Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. -Oscar Wilde
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I awoke from my nap in a daze, I did not know which way to go.
After days of travel, we had no energy to climb the knap and had to weigh which way to take
The seeds would not grow in the barren soil of the plains.
While the planes fly over, the baron cedes his farmland and his wood to his victor.
The dual engines pushed the boat with a leak through the water to the beach.
The beech tree threw a shadow over the leek growing in the garden as the men fought their duel.
John sniffed and said: "There's a foul scent in the air tonight."
His heir was sent a notice that he was allowed to keep the rare and expensive fowl.
I didn't hear the horse neigh.
Nay, I am too hoarse and my eye hurts here.
This week I had enough sense to eat some healthy foods, but not too much.
The sum of the fragrant scents left me too weak to stand.
He tried to peer through the lens of the camera at the mountain scene.
When he threw the fish on the pier, it landed too far to be seen.
Lacking the patience of her friend, she paced on the floor until the rest of the council arrived.
The doctor's wise counsel was for the patients to paste their pictures and not wrest them from each other.
The hymn of praise seemed to soar through the air.
Ere we approached him, we sympathetically noted his seamed countenance and sore and aching body.
The sight of the approaching grizzly made him moan.
After the maid had mown the lawn at that site, it was a grissly mess.
For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings
O, none, unless this miracle have might
That in black ink my love may still shine bright
To give away yourself keeps yourself still
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence
But since he died and poets better prove
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love
But day doth daily drawing sorrow longer,
And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd to hope
This thought is a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose
Let them say more that like of hearsay well
I will not praise that purpose not to sell
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear
Be not will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thy heir
In all external grace you have some part
But you like none, none you, for constant heart
Lo, thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find
Lascivious grace, in whom all it well shows,
Kill me with spites, yet we must not be foes.
Oh, him she stores, to show what wealth she had,
In days long since, before these last so bad.
ANIMALS
Mammal: Kangaroo, cow, whale, bat, seal, rabbit, rhinoceros, monkey, tiger, camel, rat, dog
Reptile: lizard, alligator, caiman, iguana, crocodile, gilamonster, snake, tortoise, tuataras, gecko, chameleon, thorndevil
Fish: Salmon, eel, perch, catfish, seahorse, carp, trout, tuna, pike, tarbot
Birds: Owl, jay, goose, flamingo, emu, raven, robin, eagle, vulture, ostrich, macaw, duck
Amphibians: Frog, toad, bullfrog, spadefoot toad, carcilians, newt, mudpuppy
Insects: wasp, silverfish, katydid, cricket, aphid, cicada, butterfly, louse, flea, earwig, bee, termite, ant
GODS
Egyptian: Anubis, Mont, Isis, THoth, Osiris, Ptah, Hathor
Roman: Mars, Ceres, Neptune, Pluto, Cupid, Juno, Minerva, Mercury, Diana
Celtic: Lug, Danu, Manannan, Dagda, Morrigan, Macha, Goibniu, Taranis, Branwen, Brigit
Norse: Frigg, Odin, Frey, Aegir, Balder, Loki, Volund, Hel
Chinese: Yen-Wang, Shen-Nung, T'ien Hou, Weng' Shang, Shang-nu, Huang-ti, Shang'O, Lung-Wang, Yu-huang
Mayan: Ixazaluoh, Chac, Hurakan, Humahau, Iztamna
Aztec: Quetzalcoatl, Tonacacihnatl, Tlazolteotl, Tercatlipoca, Tonacatecutli, Meztli, Tlatoc, Huitzi, Lopochtli, Michtlamtecutli
Sumerian: Babbar, Anu, Innini, Enlil, Nanna, Enki, Ishtar, Ereshkigal
Greek: Aphrodite, Prometheus, Artemis, Persephone, Athena, Apollo, Demeter
Indian: Indra, Parvati, Sama
West-African: Tano, Lisa, Asare, Yaa, Ananse, Nyame, Avkelete
HUMAN BODY
Respiratory system: larynx, lungs, cilia, trachea, diaphragm, bronchi, alveoli, pharynx
Nervous system: brain, nerves, receptors, axon, spinal cord, effectors, dendrites, synapse, neurons
Circulatory system: blood, heart, arteries, arterioles, platelets, veins, plasma, venules, capillaries
Skeletal system: phalanges, ulna, pubis, carpal, fibula, femur, sacrum, tarsal, tibia
Digestive system: liver, pancreas, colon, intestine, stomach, gallbladder, salivary glands, esophagus, mouth
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS:
String: lute, violin, viola, guitar, cello, harp
Percussion: bells, gongs, drums, xylophone, timpani, maracas
Brass: trumpet, cornet, bugle, trombone, tuba, French horn
Woodwinds: oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piccolo, flute, saxophone (reed), English horn (oboe)
COUNTRIES
Africa: Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Lybia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Chad, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Uganda
Asia: Turkey, Mongolia, Birma, Vietnam, Malaysia, Israel, India, China, Japan, Nepal, Laos, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
South America: Equador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia
North America: USA, Canada, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama
Europe: Poland, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland.
TOPOGRAPHY
Deserts:Kyzyl Kum, Gobi, Sahara, Sahel, Mojave, Death Valley
Mountains: Manna Kea, Popocatepetl, Saint Helen, Fuji, Kilimanjaro, Everest, Manna Loa, Cotopari, Jungfrau, Olympus
Lakes: Nyasa, Baikal, Erie, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Tahoe, Geneva, Ontario
RiversAmazon, Niger, Hudson, Thames, Congo, Yahtze, Potomac
Paintings
Pollock: Convergence #10, Overall Composition, Moon Woman Cuts The Circle, Composition with Pouring
Kandinsky: Colourful Ensemble, Gorge Improvisation, Storeys, White Stroke
Van Gogh: Road with cypress, self portrait, sunflowers, night cafe, fishing boats
Picasso: Three Musicians, Girl before a mirror, The Dream, Woman's head with self portrait
Dalí: 50 Abstract Paintings..., Persistence of Memory, 3 Sphinxes of bikini, hallucigenous bullfighter
O'Keeffe: Petunia and Coleus, Jack in the Pulpit #2, Red Poppy #VI, Black Iris II
SONGWRITERS & COMPOSERS
Schubert: Ave Maria, Trout, Who is Sylvia, Serenade, Death and the Maiden
Irving Berlin: White Christmas, Alexander's Ragtime Band, All Alone, God Bless America, Easter Parade, Always
Cohan: Over there, Harrigan, You're a grand old flag, Mary's a grand old name, Give my regards to Broadway, I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cole Porter: I've got you under my skin, You're the top, Begin the beguine, Night and day, Anything goes
Jerome Kern: Smoke gets in your eyes, Bill, Ol' Man River, Make Believe, All the things you are
Paul Simon: Sounds of Silence, Loves Me Like A Rock, Bridge over troubled water, Homeward bound
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm, Soon, Love walked in, 's Wonderful, Embraceable You
Rodgers: Falling in love with love, lady is a tramp, some enchanted evening, people will say we're in love.
Universe
Probes: Apollo, Mariner, Pioneer, Giotto, Helios, Voyager, Luna, Venera
Stars: Sirius, Vega, Altair, Pollux, Betelgeuse, Capella, Polaris, Alpha Centauri, Sun
Moons: Charon, Io, Nereid, Oberon, Titan, Deimos, Ganymede, Phobos
Planets: Neptune, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Earth
Constellations: Aquarius, Andromeda, Pegasus, Orion, Ursa Major, Perseus, Cepheus, Hercules, Cassiopeia, Delphinus
TOPOGRAPHY
Asia: Euphrate, Tigris, Pamir Knot, Gobi, Altai, Talikmakan, Jordan, Mt Everest
Africa: Canary islands, Kilimanjaro, Congo, Cape of Good Hope, Great Rift Vallyey, Suez, Nile, Victoria Falls, Sahara
North America: Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Grand Canyon, Everglades, Yosemite, Rio Grande, Painted Desert, Niagara, Mississippi, Death Valley, Great Salt Lake, Yukon, Klondike
Antarctica: Horlick, Ross Sea, Ross Ice Shelf, Prydz Bay, Berkner Island, Whitmore Mountains, Filchner Ice Shelf, Mertz Glacier
Australia: Darling River, Lake Torrens, Botany Bay, Mt Kosciusko, Great Barrier Reef, Victoria Desert, Coral Sea, Lake Eyre, Murray River
Europe: Danube, English Channel, Aegean Sea, Dardanelles, Alps, Bay of Biscai, Volga, Rhine, Baltic Sea
South America: Angel Falls, Lake Titicaca, Atacama, Cape Horn, Andes, Amazone, Galapagos, Lake Maracaibo
ZOOLOGY
Oceans: shark, manatee, copepod, whale, saltwater crocodile, octopus, jellyfish
Polar region: walrus, polar bear, arctic hare, caribou, collared lemming, penguin, ermine, musk ox
High mountains: snow leopard, bighorn sheep, marco polo sheep, yak, chinchilla, giant panda, Himalayan ibex
Grassland: zebra, elephant, giraffe, gnu, blackbuck, pronghorn, hippo, kudu, aardvark, kangaroo, ostrich, prairie dog
Temperate forest: garter snake, skunk, snapping turtle, musk rat, echidna, porcupine, koala, opossum, woodchuck, wild boar, moose, otter, chipmunk, woodfray, flying squirrel
Tropical Forest: gibbon, orang utan, axis deer, bongo, iguana, leopard, tapir, two-toed sloth, coati, black howler monkey, spider monkey, chevrotain, ocelot, jaguar, tree boa constrictor
Desert: saiga, bobcat, scorpion, dingo, sidewinder, cacaomistler, coyotem chuckwally, kit fox, kangaroo rat, muledeer, dromedary, pocket mouse
PLAYWRIGHTS
Shakespeare: King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Merchant Of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Anthony & Cleopatra, All's well that end well, Midsummernight's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing
Miller: Death of a Salesman, The Price, Incident at Vichy, The Crucible, All my sons, After the Fall, A view from the bridge
Molière: Miser, Misanthrope, Would-be Gentleman, Learned Ladies, Don Juan, Tartuffe, The school for wives
Albee: Delicate Balance, American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, death of Bessie Smith, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Seascape, The Zoo Story
Shaw: Androcles at lion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, Devil's Disciple, Heartbreak House, Candida
Wilder: Matchmaker, The skin of our teeth, Long Christmas Dinner, Angel that troubled the waters, Bridge of St Louis Rey, Our town
Ibsen: Peer Gynt, A doll's house, Hedda Gabler, Enemy of the People, Brand, Ghosts, The wild duck
Chechov: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov, Three sisters, Cherry orchard
Simon: The Odd couple, Chapter 2, Last of the red hot lovers, Goodbye girl, Brighton Beach memoires, Barefoot in the park, Plaza suite, Come blow your horn
Williams: Streetcar named Desire, Cat on a hot tin roof, Sweet bird of youth, Camino Real, The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana, Rose tattoo
POETRY AND PROSE This is a large section, as the poets and authors seem to be mixed in with each other. In any rate, they are in my notes. I'll try to alphabetise them, in order of last name (except Dr Seuss, who is in D)
Alcott: Old-fashioned girl, Little women, Little men, Eight cousins, Jo's boys
Auden: Labyrinth lakes, In praise of limestone, The trial, Under Sirius, The unknown citizen, Shield of achilles, Perhaps, Woods
Austen: Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Northanger abbey, Mansfield Park
Blume: Blubber, Then Again maybe I won't, Otherwise known as Sheila the Great, Tales of a 4th grade nothing, Superfudge
Buck: Living reed, My several worlds, A bridge for passing a house divided, Eastwind Westwind, Imperial Woman, The good earth, Dragon seed
Cleary: Henry Huggins, Dear mr Henshaw, Beezus and Ramona, Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway people
Crane: A learned man, There was a man with a tongue of wood, Wayfarer, Youth in apparel that glittered, A man saw a ball of gold, I saw a man pursuing the horizon, I stood upon a high place
Cummings: What if a Much..., Pity this monster, Always before your voice, No man if men are gods, All in green, My sweet old etcetera, All in green went my love riding, Spring is like a perhaps hand
Dickens: Bleak House, Great expectations, Tale of two cities, Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, David Copperfield
Dickinson: I heard a fly buzz..., I took my power in my hand, I taste a liquor never brewed, The soul selects her own society, After great pain a formal feeling comes, A shady friend for torrid days, My life closed twice before it close, Because I could not stop for death,Step lightly on this narrow spot, Wind trapped like a tired man
Dr Seuss: Cat in the hat, Horton hears a who, Lorax, Hop on pop, Sneetches, Green eggs and ham, How the Grinch stole Christmas, You're only old once
Faulkner: The reivers, Absalom, Requiem for a man, Go down Moses, The Unvanquished, A fable, A rose for Emily, The sound and the fury
FrostFire and Ice, To Earthward, Witch of Coos, On looking up by chance..., Acquainted with the night, Silken tent, Hill wife, Stopped by woods on a snowy evening
Hemingway: The sun also rises, Snow of Kilimanjaro, Death in the afternoon, A farewell to arms, Old man and the sea, For whom the bell tolls
King: Carrie, Cujo, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, The Stand, Dead Zone, Tommyknockers, Christine
Kipling: Jungle book, Willy Winkie, Just so stories, Kim, Captain Courageous
Longfellow: Countship of Miles Standish, Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, Tales of a whaleside inn, Cross of snow
Michener: The covenant, Texas, Hawaii, Poland, Tales of the south pacific, The source, Sayonara, Chesapeake
Nash: Reflections on Icebreaking, O please don't get up!, Caution to Everybody, Portrait of the artist,,,, And 366 in leap year, Stop being thankful..., Terrible people
Poe: Pit and the Pendulum, To my mother, Tell-tale heart, Mask to red death, Morella, Shadow, Tales of grotesque and Arabesque, To one in paradise, Raven, City in the Sea, Eldorado, Annabel Lee, Happiest Day / Happiest hour, Israfel, Harvest place
Shakespeare: Passionate Pelgrim, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Lover's Complaint, Phoenix and turtle
Steinbeck: Sweet Thursday, Travels with Charley, Cannery row, Winter of our discontent, East of eden, Grapes of wrath, In dubious battle, Tortilla flat, Of mice and men
Stevenson: Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll, Child's Garden of verses, New Arabian Nights, David Bulbous
Twain: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Connecticut Yankee, Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi
Uris: Topaz, Battle cry, QB VII, Mila 18, Exodus, The angry hills, The haj, Trinity
Verne: 20000 Leagues under the sea, Around the world in 80 days, Journey to the center of the earth, From the earth to the moon, 5 weeks in a balloon
Whitman: A noiseless patient spider, Roots and leaves themselves alone, After the dazzle of the day, Are you the person drawn towards me?, I celebrate, Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, O Captain!
Liquid Weights: This puzzle is dreadful, as it calls for knowledge that is nowadays not part of European knowledge. It is also not found in most sources I looked in. So, I'll list it for you in a table:
| Measure | Water | Mercury | Alcohol |
| Cup | 0 lb 8 oz | 7 lb 1 oz (112 oz) | 0 lb 6 oz |
| Quart | 2 lb 0 oz (32 oz) | 28 lb 4 oz(448 oz) | 1 lb 8 oz (24 oz) |
| Gallon | 8 lb 0 oz (128 oz) | Don't try! (1792 oz) | 6 lb 0 oz (96 oz) |
Next comes the Art Concentration. The 6 painters have luckily very different styles. After you've switched them on, talk to the statues and notice the painting by the side of their stories. Note that Van Gogh has the more figurative paintings (the boats, the cafe, self-portrait and the sunflowers), Dali is also very figurative but more absurd (tiger, busts, and Sleep). O'Keefe makes huge flowers. In the Picasso selection, you may recognize figures that are built from shapes. Jackson Pollock uses dribbles in his art. He's hard to tell from Kandinsky. If you find a painting with a thick white stripe, it's Kandinsky's.
(Actually, I'm very fond of Kandinsky... but I'm an even bigger fan of Dali.)
Music Theory: OK here goes... there are 3 minigames here: clicking on the keyboard key that corresponds with the note the computer gives, the reverse, and the Tune Transcribing. The key that's in the dead centre is c''. On the score (the lines), that would be just over the line in the middle. The lowest note is c', two spots below the score. The top note is c''', 1 space above the score. A # in front of a note means that you should play the black key to the right of the one the note signifies. A b in front of a note means you should play the black key to the LEFT of the one the note signifies.
And on the transcription level, just get yourself some sheet music paper and copy it real fast.
Programming: The pink chip will function properly. If you use the yellow chip, take note while you program. If there's a bug symbol in the line, program the OPPOSITE action: pick up if you want to drop, turn left if you want to turn right, forward if you want to go backward. The green chip functions normally... until it faces a monitor, then it stops.
Remember that, unlike on Castle, the robot needs to turn and walk forward, not just MOVE LEFT or MOVE RIGHT. On Expert, use the proper chip for a distant crate, and don't steer the green chip into a monitor.
Genetics: Create the Ideal Cyborg. First, get a good look at the ideal genes, note which parts are dominant. When choosing two parents, remember that the capital letters are showing the dominant traits.
If you don't know much about genetics, it's too complicated to explain here. Check Wikipedia for the Mendel genetics theory.
Logic Pattern: Click on the symbol that fits logically in the blank. The difficulty level of this is primarily in the question itself: some symbols are much easier to read than others. The Save/Hint system is the only other advice I can give you.
Logic Gates: After testing the chip, find the right logic gates that will produce the outcome. After testing the old chip, study the table. Try to discover a logic pattern between input and output. Remember not all the input (A B, C or D) may be used.
For more info on Logic Gates, check Wikipedia's article.