Expert: Jan Eskes - 9/17/2006

Question
I am having the same problem with the firecracker. I have given the bone to the dog and the medal to the weeping woman. Everytime I get the fire cracker I try to move to the left ASAP but I blow up before I exit the screen with the pumpkin house. To add insult to injury, if I 'try again' I immediately blow up again with no real chance to get back to the crypt. Is there an error with the game?

Answer
Sierra put in these timed puzzles but set them to the cpu speed. On an old system this worked fine, but on the newer PC's your time runs out to fast. You can try running a LOT of different programs in the background (virus check etc.), or I've heard of a utility to help it run slower called MoSlo (I've included the link at the bottom of this email). I've never used MoSlo, but the site explains what it does. One idea, which is a pain in the neck, is to keep doing the firecracker over and over and over and over. You should SLOWLY move closer to the crypt.

Good Luck!
Jan

http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/