Thimbleweed ParkThimbleweed Park

Game Details:  Mystery, 2017

Links:  Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  4/14/2022

Suggested Listening:  Help Me Out (Ash 25)

Thimbleweed Park is an old-school third person adventure game in the style of classic LucasArts games. You play as a series of 5 playable characters, solving a series of mysteries that begin with a dead body. There are 33 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below. You will need to play the game twice to get all achievements.

Hard Mode

During this playthrough, you can safely pick up specks of dust when you see them (their exact position is random). There is a series of special achievements for collecting these throughout the game:

  • Pick up 25 specks of dust Dust Appreciator
  • Pick up 50 specks of dust Dust Collector
  • Pick up 75 specks of dust Dust Hoarder

Part 1: The Meeting

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 1.

Open the gate and talk to Willie. Look at the note in your inventory. Pick up the rock from in the river and use it on the light over the Trestle Trail sign. Now head to the far right.

Part 2: The Body

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 2.

Playing as Reyes, give your Polaroid camera to Ray.

Playing as Ray, put the Polaroid film into the camera, then use the camera on the corpse. Look at the corpse to find a hotel keycard. Now walk to the left and open the gate, then head up Trestle Trail to reach the highway. Head to the right until you meet the Pigeon Brothers. After talking to them, continue right past the cemetery and pick up an empty soda bottle from the side of the road. Now keep going right to reach the town.

Go right along Main Street until you meet the Sheriff - talk to him and you will end up inside Town Hall. Go right and enter the Coroner's office. Search the filing cabinet on the left to get a fingerprint kit. Now leave this room and go upstairs into the Sheriff's office. Search the filing cabinet on the right to get a fingerprint book. Now leave Town Hall.

Head right and talk to the Pigeon Brothers to find out they need a new vacuum tube WC-67. Head right down Main Street, then go up along B Street when you see the road sign. Continue right and enter Ricki's Cakes. Talk to Ricki Lee and ask her for vacuum tube WC-67. Leave the shop and go right until you reach the bus station. Talk to the lady of the evening here.

Playing as Delores, leave the room and head along the hall to the left. Go down the stairs and outside. Open the mailbox and your computer magazine will be delivered. Pick up some firewood from the wood pile, and also collect the gas can from next to it. Go back inside and read the magazine. Go to the upstairs hall again and enter your room (first door on the left). Use the computer, and answer the first 3 questions any way you want. Now choose to pause the application.

Leave your room and go down to answer the door, receiving a letter for Uncle Chuck. Go half way back up the stairs, then head through the large doors into the library. Under the IndexTron 3000 to find that there is a book on MMucas in section 3.1. Go right and look at the sign at the base of the stairs. Pick up the sign, then go up the spiral staircase. Head left to section 3.1 and find the book called "MMucas Programming Primer". While you are here, spend the time to read 100 books in the library Book Worm. Back at the bottom of the spiral staircase, go right and look at the phone book, paying attention to the entries written in black. Use the phone to dial 100 of these numbers and listen to the recorded messages No One Is Home.

Exit the library and return upstairs to your room. Use your computer again, and use the information in your MMucas Programming Primer to get the questions correct. Take the blank paper from the PrintTron 3000 and look at it, then take the printer ribbon from the PrintTron 3000. Leave your room again go through the door immediately to the right to end up further around the landing. Try to open the door at the far right and you will interrupt a conversation. Pick up the empty ink bottle from the desk on the right. Leave here and go back downstairs, then enter the kitchen through the door under the stairs. Open the refrigerator and take the broken bottles of ketchup, then the bottle of hot sauce. Look at the hot sauce in your inventory. Open the top left cupboard and take the empty glass, then fill the glass using the faucet.

Leave the kitchen and go right to the fireplace. Put your firewood here, then use the hot sauce and you will start a fire. Use your glass of water to put out the fire, then pick up the fireplace soot. Put the soot into your empty ink bottle, then combine this with your gas can. Use your full ink bottle on the printer ribbon. Head back up to your room and put the printer ribbon and blank paper back into the PrintTron 3000. Use the computer, then take the letter from the PrintTron 3000.

Return down to the kitchen. Fill your glass with water from the faucet again. Open the microwave and put the glass of water and letter (for Chuck) inside, then close and use the microwave. Open the microwave and take out everything, then put the stamps on your application letter. Go outside and put your letter in the mailbox. After receiving your letter back, go inside and up to your room. Open the letter 4 times to read it. Leave your room and go to Uncle Chuck's room at the far right again. Talk to Uncle Chuck and tell him about the job offer Out Of The Will.

Playing as Ray, leave the bus station and go left along B Street and Main Street until you find the Pigeon Brothers again. Give them the WC-67 tube. Now you can head along A Street. Go right and enter the US Post Office. Talk to the postal worker about everything, then take some sticky tape from the counter. Go back outside and head to the far right, into the Occult Books store. Pick up the cursed head from the small shelf towards the right. Further to the right, pick up the small blue bottle of cursed eye drops. Use the eye drops to make Ray sad (1/5). Leave the store and head back to Main Street.

Playing as Reyes, come outside to Main Street and get the eye drops from Ray. Use the eye drops to make Reyes sad (2/5). Give the eye drops back to Ray.

Playing as Ray, go right and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy.

Playing as Ransome, take the clown nose from the doll on your bed, then use it to put it on. Take the lumpy poster from the wall to reveal a safe behind it. Try to open the safe, but you don't know the combination. Take all the notes from the board on the wall and read them - one of them will have a series of 3 hints for the safe combination. Leave the trailer to talk to your lawyer. Head further left to reach the circus grounds.

Push the mime *Beephole* Mime. Now go through the backstage entrance to the left. Pick up the swear jar to get $138 from inside it. Use the hair gel and makeup on the right. Go back out to the circus grounds and head left towards Midway. Talk to Carney Joe to learn what you need for the safe. Go back to your trailer and open the safe to get another $1000. Head to Midway again and give the money to Carney Joe in exchange for your joke book. Go through the backstage entrance, then through the stage door. During the show, choose any options *Beephole*.

Playing as Ray, talk to Sandy again to order a hotdog (1/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street. Go to the far right to reach the town outskirts. Enter the bathroom on the left of the Quickie Pal and use the light switch just left of the door. Take some toilet paper from the right, then go back outside. Now enter the Quickie Pal. Take the bear repellent from the right side of the counter, and give your empty bottle to Leonard to get a shiny nickel.

Leave the town outskirts and go back to A Street, then enter Nickel News. Read all 17 available newspapers, one on the top of each of the stacks Well Informed. Talk to Natalie about everything. Look at the PoliceTron 3000 to the left and pay attention to what Natalie is waiting for.

Playing as Reyes, go left along Main Street and enter Town Hall. Go up into the Sheriff's office and use the PoliceTron 3000 here to make a report matching what Natalie just said.

Playing as Ray, with Natalie gone, grab the framed county map from the wall and use it on the CopyTron 3000 to the right. Use your shiny nickel to make a copy, then take it. Pick up the original and put it back in the frame on the wall. Go back outside and return left to Main Street. Head to the far right to reach the town outskirts, then head up the path to the vista and keep going right. When the Sheriff stops you, show him your map.

Part 3: The Arrest

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 3.

Playing as Ray, look at the map and go to the trailhead. Head right to the spooky forest trail, and you will end up in a maze of forest paths. Keep an eye on the cursed head in your inventory, and take the path in the direction the head is facing - you will eventually reach a small stone monument. Look at the plaque Buried Treasure. Go left, then use the map to return to Main Street.

Playing as Reyes, walk back towards town. Stop in at the Quickie Pal and pick up a county map. Now go to Main Street and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (2/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street.

Playing as Ray, use your map to go to the bridge. Use your toilet paper on the corpse to get a blood sample. Now head to the bathroom at the Quickie Pal and use the dripping bloody toilet paper on the dryer here. Now go and wait out the front of Town Hall.

Playing as Reyes, use your map to go to the Edmund Mansion. Open the gates and pick up the gas can from next to the wood pile. Open the doors to meet Delores, and she will become a playable character once more. Now travel to the old circus. Use the clown horn to the left of the gate to meet Ransome, who will also now become a playable character. Travel back to Town Hall and give the gas can to Ray.

Playing as Ransome, pick up the comic book under your bed. Take the poster from the wall and open the safe, then take the joke book and all the loose pages, with one flying away through the open window. Put the 3 loose pages you collected back into the joke book, then look to see there is still one page missing. Take the pink attempted delivery notice from the board on the left, and look at it in your inventory. Open the refrigerator and take out the moldy cheese. Leave your trailer by going left.

Head left to the circus grounds, then go through the backstage entrance. Pick up the anti-itch cream, then use it Itchy Fingers. Use the mirror to try to remove your makeup again, then leave to the left. Go through the big top entrance. Look at the hole in the back wall over to the left to see that it is a rat hole, then use your moldy cheese on the hole. Go back outside and take the popcorn bag from the far left. Now pick up all the popcorn from the ground out here. Go back into the big top and pick up the rest of the popcorn that is now piled near the rat hole.

Return to your trailer. Open the microwave and give the popcorn to the hamster. Now you can leave your trailer, head left to the circus grounds, and head right to the exit. Walk either way to reach the country road, and go to the Quickie Pal. Take a county map, then use this to go to A Street. Head into the US Post Office. Give your attempted delivery notice to the postal worker. Open the package in your inventory to find a wallet and a candy dispenser. Back outside, give the wallet to Willie, and you will get an old bloody wallet in return. Travel to Main Street and head towards Town Hall. Get the eye drops from Ray, and give her the bloody wallet. Use the eye drops to make Ransome sad (3/5).

Playing as Ray, use your map to go to the bridge. Walk right past the corpse and into the bushes, until you can look at "something odd". Pick up the chainsaw and fill it using your gas can. Continue right and use the chainsaw on the old tree, then go through the sewer entrance. Open the light box on the wall and use the light switch. Now enter the tunnel. Explore the sewer tunnels completely, as you can collect a lot of specks of dust throughout here. You will eventually find a room where someone has been living in a cardboard box. Grab the ice pick and some magic mushrooms. Use your map to travel to the Edmund Hotel. Go inside to meet up with Natalie.

Playing as Franklin, enter the hotel and go to the far right. Try to talk to the annoying kid, then push the boombox to turn it off. Now talk to the kid - when you have to prove yourself, say:

  • I know this gnarly dude who...
  • was on MTV and...
  • tells me what's wicked and what'll gag me with a spoon.

Turn off the boombox again, then give the kid one of your PillowBears, trading for his glasses (and some gum). Use the nose glasses to wear them. Go left and talk to the Manager about everything, checking in with any name you like. Enter the elevator and go up to the 10th floor. Exit the elevator and take the top room photo (standard room) from the stand on the left. Go into each of the 4 open rooms to the left and take the hotel stationery from inside. Now go back to the elevator and go to the floor that matches your keycard. Use your keycard on the correct hotel room door. Once you enter the room you will automatically answer the phone. Look at the HotelTron 3000, then attach the gum and standard room photo to it.

Leave your room and take the elevator back down to the lobby. Give your 4 sheets of stationery to the Manager so he will copy your prospectus document. Use the elevator to go back up to your room and use the telephone here Secret Meeting.

Playing as Ray, finish talking to Natalie then go right and talk to the Manager. Once you have Franklin's keycard, use the elevator. First go to the correct floor for the victim's room. Use the keycard to get into the victim's room and take the passport from the table. Now go to the correct floor for Franklin's room. Use the keycard to enter Franklin's room. Look at the gum on the HotelTron 3000, then leave the room again. Franklin will now become a playable character.

Playing as Franklin, float out through the door. Zap the elevator call button, then enter the elevator and take it down to the lobby. Go right to the drinking fountain and splash it when the annoying kid takes a drink.

Playing as Ray, use the elevator to go to every numbered floor from 12 down to 3, making sure to leave the elevator each time Hotel Tourist. Go down and use the drinking fountain in the lobby.

Playing as Franklin, splash the drinking fountain while Ray is standing next to it. Now use your despair action to make Franklin sad (4/5).

Playing as Ray, use your map to return to Main Street, then enter Town Hall. Go to the Coroner's office, where you now have all the evidence you need:

  • Use both the bloody toilet paper and the bloody wallet on the BloodTron 3000.
  • Open the fingerprint kit and use it on the ice pick. Use your sticky tape on the ice pick, then use both the sticky tape and the fingerprint book on the FingerTron 3000.
  • Use both the photo of the body and the passport in the FaceTron 3000.

Take all 3 reports and head up to the Sheriff's office. Try to put a report into the ArrestTron 3000, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Playing as Delores, go upstairs into the library. After talking to Lenore, leave here and go up to your room. Look at the ASCII chart on the wall. Search the right shelves and pick up the Susiboy red gel decoder and math trophy. Now head over to Uncle Chuck's room. Grab the receipt and journal from the desk on the right, and read through the journal. Open the check register and take the check stub from inside. Look at this in your inventory to see the name "Brant Bailiwick". Now push the painting on the back wall and take the key from behind it. Also take the large vacuum tube and strange device from the left.

Save your game, then use the strange device (you will need to try 4 times) Nuke It. Load your game again, then head back down to the library and look at the phone book. Find the name "Brant Bailiwick" and use the phone to dial his number. Leave the mansion. Walk right to reach the country road, and go to the Quickie Pal. Take a county map, then use this to go to B Street. Go right and enter Ricki's Cakes. Talk to Ricki Lee about your receipt to get a vacuum tube puller. Back outside, head left until you reach Main Street, then enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (3/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street.

Go to Town Hall, then enter the Sheriff's office. Get the eye drops from Ray, then use the eye drops to make Delores sad (5/5) Mean Person. Look at the ArrestTron 3000, then use your large vacuum tube on it.

Playing as Ray, put all 3 reports into the ArrestTron 3000 Justice.

Part 4: The Will

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 4.

Playing as Delores, use your map to go to the old circus. Head towards the trailers and stand next to the trampoline.

Playing as Ransome, walk right along Main Street and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (4/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street. Now use your map to go to the old circus. Head towards the trailers and push the trampoline twice so it is as far left as it can go. Now climb up to the left trailer. Use the trampoline, then grab the joke page when you are near it. Put this final page back into your joke book.

Playing as Franklin, look at the computer when the Manager is doing so, and notice which room number is displayed. Use the elevator to go to this room.

Playing as Ray, use your telephone, then exit your room.

Playing as Reyes, use your telephone, then exit your room. Open your package to find your father's old pocket watch.

Playing as Delores, go to Main Street and enter Safely First Savings. Walk right and wait for Mr El Paulo to get off the phone, then give him the check stub, in exchange for a canceled check. Look at this in your inventory.

Playing as Reyes, look at your telephone book to get the number for Safely First Bank.

Playing as Franklin, enter the guest's room and zap the telephone, then dial the number for Safely First Bank. Select a series of options that sound obscene rather than scary, and Mr El Paulo will turn around.

Playing as Delores, take the factory key from the wall while Mr El Paulo is distracted. Use your map to go to the abandoned factory. Walk right until you see the padlock and chain, then use your factory key in the padlock. Head towards the factory. Go left until you can proceed through a large archway, then continue left to see a corroding silo. Use your math trophy on the silo, then use your map to head to the Quickie Pal. Take the bear repellent from the right side of the counter. Use your trophy full of radioactive waste on the man-eating plant Plantastic.

Playing as Ray, open your package to find a strange tool, then return to the hotel and stand near the Manager.

Playing as Franklin, zap the TV, radio and light switch.

Playing as Ray, give your business card to the Manager.

Playing as Franklin, blow on the guest and the toilet paper, and splash the toilet, then the manager should call the Pigeon Brothers.

Playing as Ray, go up to the guest's room and take the wrench from the tool bag. Head back down to the lobby.

Playing as Delores, use your map to go to the KSCUM radio station, east of the town, and stand next to the PhoneTron 3000 on the right.

Playing as Reyes, look at your telephone book to get the number for KSCUM Radio.

Playing as Delores, use your vacuum tube puller on the PhoneTron 3000, then put the vacuum tube back in again.

Playing as Ray, quickly use your cell phone to dial the number for KSCUM Radio and answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Here are the questions you might get asked:

  • What was Jenny's phone number? 867-5309
  • Where were the much boycotted 1980 Summer Olympic Games held? Moscow
  • Who played Marty McFly in Back to the Future? Michael J Fox
  • In the groundbreaking new game, Maniac Mansion, what was the name of the evil tentacle? Purple Tentacle
  • Finish this popular political ad slogan: "Where's the ____?" Beef
  • Name the American who won 4 gold medals at the 1984 Olympics? Carl Lewis
  • The hit song "We Are The World" was a recording of 45 musicians for which charity? African famine relief
  • What television event drew more than 750 million viewers worldwide? The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
  • Who said, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall?" Ronald Reagan
  • Fill in the blank: This is your brain... This is drugs... This is your brain on drugs...
  • Which volcano erupted in 1980? Mount Saint Helens
  • Who was the president of the United States in 1982? Ronald Reagan
  • Which has not been a fad so far in the 80s? Lava Lamp
  • Which TV show had 83 million viewers tune in to find out who shot JR? Dallas
  • Name the 4 Pac Man ghosts. Inky Blinky Pinky Clyde
  • What are Vice President Bush's middle initials? HW
  • What popular weekly radio show does Casey Kasem host? American Top 40
  • What was ET's favourite kind of candy? Reese's Pieces

Talk to the Manager here to get your 4 ThimbleCon tickets (give the same name you provided to the radio station). Go upstairs and try to go through the ThimbleCon entrance, then show your ticket to the dragon. Use your map to go to the abandoned factory. Head left and through the archway, then go right to find an electric truck. Use your wrench on the restraining bolt, then take out the battery. Now use your map to go to the trailhead.

Playing as Delores, travel to the abandoned factory and go through the archway. Head left and collect more radioactive waste in your math trophy, then travel to the trailhead. Use your radioactive waste in the puddle here.

Playing as Ransome, travel to the trailhead and get the truck battery from Ray. There should be some radioactive footprints leading to the right (if they aren't here yet, go somewhere and come back again). Follow the footprints through the forest until you reach an electric fence. Use the truck battery on the electric fence to charge it.

Playing as Delores, go to Main Street and head to the right to find Chet wearing a pizza costume. Talk to him until he runs away, then pick up the pizza flyer. Look at this in your inventory to see a code written across the bottom.

Playing as Ransome, use the keypad on the electric gate and enter the code from the pizza flyer. Open the van door and go inside. Walk left so the meeting starts. After the meeting, pick up one of the remaining goodie bags from the table. Open this in your inventory to find a foil-wrapped brick and a floppy disk. Use the elevator to leave, then travel to the abandoned factory. Go through the archway and head right, then put the truck battery back into the truck. Now push the lever and the truck will move.

Playing as Delores, enter the S&D Diner and talk to Sandy to order a hamburger (you can only do this if all the hotdogs have been eaten). Use your map to go to the hotel. Head up to the ThimbleCon and talk to Brant (at the Cosplay Legal Advice stand) - he will go to the mansion. Next talk to the Sexy Riker and give him the hamburger. Quickly follow him to the elevator and watch (or listen) how many floors he goes up. Get in the elevator and go to his floor. Go to the open door so you see which room he exits.

Playing as Franklin, go to this hotel room and zap the door lock.

Playing as Delores, enter the room and take the jeweler's tools from the small table. Travel to meet up with Reyes, who is probably in Town Hall, and give him the jeweler's tools.

Playing as Reyes, go up to the Sheriff's office and talk to Willie in the holding cell. Give him your broken watch, then your jeweler's tools, then the watch again - now he won't fix it until the music on the radio is changed. Try to push the radio, but the knob is missing.

Playing as Ransome, travel to the hotel and go up into ThimbleCon. Talk to Ken Thien at the comic stand, then trade your comic for his hint guide. Now go to the far right into the next room, and you will win a record. Now head to the radio station.

Playing as Delores, go to the radio station and get the record from Ransome. Head inside the radio station and wait just outside the recording booth.

Playing as Ransome, go to the right of the radio station and climb the ladder on the radio tower. When you reach the top, prepare to perform the next series of actions quickly. Push the red lever.

Playing as Delores, quickly enter the recording booth, use the record on the left turntable, and pull the red lever.

Playing as Reyes, quickly give Willie the broken watch, and promise to prove his innocence.

Playing as Delores, use the map to go to the cemetery, just north of the town. Go all the way along the winding path to reach the tomb. Pick a flower from here. Next use your map to head back to the Edmund Mansion. Go to the library to find that the will still cannot be read out - you will receive the will and need to decode it somehow. Head up to your room again. Pick up the Graphics BASIC software from next to the computer and use it with the computer. Now use the will on the computer to partially decode it. Use the will on the computer again - unfortunately you don't know the correct lucky number.

Use your map to travel to A Street. Enter Nickel News and look at the newspaper on the far left stack - this mentions a lucky number. Go back to the Edmund Mansion and up to your bedroom again. Use the will on the computer and narrow down with the options until you reach the lucky number from the newspaper. Look at the will to see it is correctly decoded.

Now go back to A Street and head to the far right, into the Occult Books store. Push the ladder to the right, then climb up to the very top. Look at the glowing cursed book, then pick up the Book of the Dead. Climb back down to the ground, then head to B Street. Enter Ricki's Cakes. Talk to Ricki Lee and ask for thimbleberry pie - she will give you some gloves so you can safely get the thimbleberries. Use your map to go to the trailhead. Follow the radioactive footprints until you find a bush with some red berries. Use your gloves to get some thimbleberries. Go back to Ricki's Cakes again, and give Ricki Lee the thimbleberries, then you will end up with a thimbleberry pie.

Playing as Franklin, enter the elevator and talk to Clara. Use the elevator to get down to the mezzanine level, then go right into ThimbleCon. Talk to Vergil at the far right and ask him for some cake for Clara. Chill the ghost cake in your inventory. Go back to the elevator and talk to Clara about the cake. Keep talking to learn the name of Clara's favorite TV show. Go up to the 10th floor, then zap the TV until Clara's favorite show is on. Zap the elevator door call button, and Clara will come out to watch the TV.

Playing as Delores, travel to the hotel. Enter the elevator and use it to go up to the penthouse. Step out of the elevator Sky High. Open the secret entrance to the right and go inside. Put the flower and the Book of the Dead on the podium. Travel back to Edmund Mansion. Go up to the library and give the thimbleberry pie and the will to Brant. Travel to the cemetery and wait outside the tomb.

Playing as Franklin, use the elevator to get up to the penthouse, and also go through the secret entrance. Talk to the Book of the Dead, and you will go through the portal automatically. Float through the tomb door and zap the switch.

Part 5: The Reading

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 5.

Delores and family will enter the tomb for the reading of the will.

Part 6: The Factory

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 6.

Playing as Reyes, travel to the abandoned factory. Go through the archway, then left and through an open doorway. Look at the picture on the desk. Pick up all the paper from the floor, then pick up the handbook and read it - make a note of the security phone number at the end.

Playing as Ray, travel to the abandoned factory. Head to the far left and stand near the big doors. Use your cell phone to call the security number and note the time that is read out.

Playing as Reyes, go around to the big doors and you will find time clock 1 here. Use your pocket watch on it, then set the time according to Ray's recent phone call - the light should turn green when correct. Head right to time clock 2, and set the time here to 5 minutes after clock 1. Similarly, set time clock 3 to another 5 minutes forward, and time clock 4 to yet another 5 minutes forward. Go back to the big doors and push the red button, but nothing happens. Look at the DoorTron 3000, which is missing its tube.

Playing as Delores, go to B Street and enter Ricki's Cakes. Offer Ricki the t-shirt, and you will get a PF-001 tube. Travel to the abandoned factory and go to the big doors. Insert the PF-001 tube into the DoorTron 3000.

Playing as Reyes, push the red button, and the big doors will open just a little. Pull the big doors.

Playing as Ray, pull the big doors.

Playing as Ransome, travel to the abandoned factory and pull the big doors.

Playing as Delores, go through the big doors.

Part 7: The Madness

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 7.

Playing as Delores, get the floppy disk and hint book from Ransome. Climb down the ladder, then walk left and try to go out to the corridor - the SR-01 robots are too dangerous for you to continue. Open the panel on the computer here and look inside, noting the positions of the 3 colored jumpers.

Use your map to travel to Edmund Mansion. Pick up some more fireplace soot, then go up to the library. Use the IndexTron 3000 and you will automatically find that the manual you need is in section 2.1 - this is just above where you are now, so grab the book called "Programming the SR-01". Look at this book in your inventory, and in particular note the required positions for the 3 jumpers.

Head back to the abandoned factory. Go through the big doors and down the ladder, then go left and look at the computer panel again. Move the 3 jumpers to the positions indicated in the SR-01 book. Walk through the next few corridors and open the exit door at the end, which provides a shortcut to the bottom of the factory. Go back inside and use the office key on the other wooden door here, then go through. Pick up the glass and the journal from the desk, and the hat from the hat stand. Read the journal in your inventory. Leave the office again.

Playing as Ray, go to meet Delores (either down the ladder and through the factory or outside through the shortcut. Get the glass and fine black soot from Delores, then use your map to travel to A Street. Enter the US Post Office and take some more sticky tape from the counter. Use the fine black soot on the glass, then use the sticky tape on the glass to get a fingerprint. Go back to the abandoned factory and give the fingerprint to Delores.

Playing as Delores, go back to the Edmund Mansion. Head upstairs and over to Uncle Chuck's room. Use the fingerprint on the FingerprintReaderTron 3000. Pick up the book and look at it in hour inventory - make a note of the Office Computer password.

Return to the abandoned factory and enter the office. Insert the floppy disk into the computer, and select the password from the book you just found. Now select "Adventure (Chuck mod)". In the game, select these commands:

  • Go west
  • Go west
  • Go north
  • Examine paintings
  • I don't like text adventures, I quit

In your inventory, use the Susiboy's red gel decoder with the hint book. Use the computer again, start the game and select these commands:

  • Go west
  • Go west
  • Go north
  • Say "fizzscumm"

Part 8: The Escape

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 8.

Playing as Ransome, leave the office. Open the foil-wrapped brick, then use the C4 explosive on the locking mechanism of the blast door here. Use the candy dispenser on the C4, and the door will open.

Playing as Delores, leave the office and take the aluminium foil from Ransome. Go down the stairs and along the corridor, pressing the red button at the end (if the robot arms are active, crash the computer again before coming back down and trying this again). Continue right to see the evil lasers. Combine the aluminium foil with the hat, then wear this and you can safely walk to the right. Continue through the next door. Look at the sign next to the large fan and note the 4-digit number.

Playing as Franklin, leave the tomb and go back through the portal. Use the elevator to go down to a guest room and zap the phone, then dial the number from the fan sign.

Playing as Delores, walk through the fan once it has stopped.

Playing as Franklin, zap the same phone number again.

Playing as Delores, you can now climb up the ladder here to return to the others.

Playing as Ray, go down through the trapdoor and use your strange tool on the slot to the right.

Playing as Delores, go down through the trapdoor and head right through the doorway. Push 7 of the big tubes, then you will talk to Uncle Chuck.

Part 9: The Deleting

You will get an achievement for starting this section Part 9.

Playing as Franklin, use the elevator to get back up to the penthouse. Talk to Xavier on the left until you end up with the ghostly crystal. Go back through the secret entrance on the right.

Playing as Ransome, travel to Main Street and enter the diner. Give the card to Sandy and you will appear back in your flashback. Go through the stage door. You can now proceed in one of two ways:

  • Be as nice as possible during the show to see a good ending.
  • Be as horrible as possible during the show to see a bad ending *Beephole* Redux.

Playing as Ray, head to the hotel and up to ThimbleCon. Give the award to the last attendee. After he leaves, take the puzzle dependency chart.

Playing as Reyes, go to A Street and enter Nickel News. Give Chuck's confession to Natalie, then select any options when talking to her.

Playing as Delores, travel to the hotel and use the elevator to go up to the penthouse. Go through the secret entrance to join Franklin, then talk to him. Now use the map to head back to the bridge. Use the balloon animal on the corpse.

Head left to the highway, then go right until you reach the map. Go to the abandoned factory and open the gate, then go through. Continue through the big doors, then the second door to the right. Head down the stairs and through the blast door, then past each of the traps. Climb through the opening in the PillowTron. Push all 8 of the big tubes Hard Won.

Make sure you watch to the end of the credits Last One Out.

Casual Mode

During this playthrough, you should avoid picking up any specks of dust; if you accidentally collect one, you can quickly load the most recent autosave point to undo this. There is a special achievement for collecting no specks throughout the game Messy World.

Part 1: The Meeting

Open the gate. Pick up the rock from in the river and use it on the light over the Trestle Trail sign. Now head to the far right.

Part 2: The Body

Playing as Reyes, give your Polaroid camera to Ray.

Playing as Ray, put the Polaroid film into the camera, then use the camera on the corpse, and you will find a hotel keycard. Now walk to the left and open the gate, then head up Trestle Trail to reach the highway. Head to the right until you meet the Pigeon Brothers. After talking to them, continue right past the cemetery into town.

Go right along Main Street until you meet the Sheriff - talk to him and you will end up inside Town Hall. Go right and enter the Coroner's office. Search the filing cabinet on the left to get a fingerprint kit. Now leave this room and go upstairs into the Sheriff's office. Search the filing cabinet on the right to get a fingerprint book. Now leave Town Hall.

Playing as Reyes, leave Town Hall and head right down Main Street. Enter the alley to the left of S&D Diner, and walk left until you get abducted.

Playing as Ray, head right and talk to the Pigeon Brothers to find out they need a new vacuum tube WC-67. Head right down Main Street, then go up along B Street when you see the road sign. Continue right and enter Ricki's Cakes. Talk to Ricki Lee and ask her for vacuum tube WC-67. Leave the shop and go right until you reach the bus station. Talk to the lady of the evening here.

Playing as Delores, leave the room and head along the hall to the left. Go down the stairs and outside. Open the mailbox and your computer magazine will be delivered. Go back inside and read the magazine. Go to the upstairs hall again and enter your room (first door on the left). Use the computer, and answer the questions any way you want. Take the blank paper from the PrintTron 3000 and look at it, then take the printer ribbon from the PrintTron 3000.

Leave your room and go down to answer the door, receiving a letter for Uncle Chuck. Go back upstairs and through the door immediately to the right to end up further around the landing. Try to open the door at the far right and you will interrupt a conversation. Pick up the full ink bottle from the desk on the right, and use it on your printer ribbon.

Head back to your room and put the printer ribbon and blank paper back into the PrintTron 3000. Use the computer, then take the letter from the PrintTron 3000. Go outside and put your letter in the mailbox. After receiving your letter back, go inside and up to your room. Open the letter 4 times to read it. Leave your room and go to Uncle Chuck's room at the far right again. Talk to Uncle Chuck and tell him about the job offer.

Playing as Ray, return left to B street and stop near the phone outside Ricki's Cakes.

Playing as Reyes, you will wake up in the sewers. Go through the opening in the back wall and pick up the dime. Return to the previous tunnel, then go left twice and notice the name written on the wall.

Playing as Ray, use the phone book to look up this name and associated number.

Playing as Reyes, open the red box on the wall. Use your dime in the phone and dial the number that Ray just saw. Go right after the phone conversation ends Great Escape.

Playing as Ray, go left along B Street and Main Street until you find the Pigeon Brothers again. Give them the WC-67 tube. Now you can head along A Street. Go right and enter the US Post Office. Talk to the postal worker about everything, then take some sticky tape from the counter. Leave the store and head back to Main Street, then go right and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy.

Playing as Ransome, take the clown nose from the doll on your bed, then use it to put it on. Take the poster from the wall, then open the safe and take the money. Leave the trailer to talk to your lawyer. Head further left to reach the circus grounds. Now go through the backstage entrance to the left. Pick up the swear jar to get $138 from inside it. Use the hair gel and makeup on the right. Go back out to the circus grounds and head left towards Midway. Talk to Carney Joe, and give him the money in exchange for your joke book. Go through the backstage entrance, then through the stage door. During the show, choose any options.

Playing as Ray, talk to Sandy again to order a hotdog (1/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street. Go to the far right to reach the town outskirts. Enter the bathroom on the left of the Quickie Pal and use the light switch just left of the door. Take some toilet paper from the right, then go back outside. Leave the town outskirts and go back to A Street, then enter Nickel News. Look at the PoliceTron 3000 to the left and pay attention to what Natalie is waiting for.

Playing as Reyes, go left along Main Street and enter Town Hall. Go up into the Sheriff's office and use the PoliceTron 3000 here to make a report matching what Natalie just said.

Playing as Ray, with Natalie gone, grab the framed county map from the wall and use it on the CopyTron 3000 to the right to make 3 copies. Go back outside and return left to Main Street. Head to the far right to reach the town outskirts, then head up the path to the vista and keep going right. When the Sheriff stops you, show him your map.

Part 3: The Arrest

Playing as Reyes, go to Main Street and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (2/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street.

Playing as Ray, use your map to go to the bridge. Use your toilet paper on the corpse to get a blood sample. Go to the far right and through the sewer entrance. Explore the sewer tunnels c ompletely, and you will find a room where someone has been living in a cardboard box. Grab the ice pick. Next use your map to go to the Edmund Mansion. Open the doors to meet Delores, and she will become a playable character once more. Now travel to the old circus. Use the clown horn to the left of the gate to meet Ransome, who will also now become a playable character.

Playing as Ransome, pick up the comic book under your bed. Take the poster from the wall and open the safe, then take the joke book and all the loose pages. Put the 4 loose pages you collected back into the joke book. Leave your trailer by going left. Head left to the circus grounds, then take the popcorn bag from the far left. Now pick up all the popcorn from the ground here. Return to your trailer. Open the microwave and give the popcorn to the hamster. Now you can leave your trailer, head left to the circus grounds, and head right to the exit. Give the Ransome wallet to Ray, and get a county map from her.

Playing as Ray, go to A Street and talk to Willie. Give the wallet to Willie, and you will get an old bloody wallet in return. use your map to travel to the Edmund Hotel. Go inside to meet up with Natalie.

Playing as Franklin, enter the hotel and go to the far right. Try to talk to the annoying kid, then push the boombox to turn it off. Now talk to the kid - when you have to prove yourself, say:

  • I know this gnarly dude who...
  • was on MTV and...
  • tells me what's wicked and what'll gag me with a spoon.

Turn off the boombox again, then give the kid one of your PillowBears, trading for his glasses (and some gum). Use the nose glasses to wear them. Go left and talk to the Manager about everything, checking in with any name you like, and getting a copy of your prospectus. Enter the elevator and go up to the 10th floor. Exit the elevator and take the room photo from the stand on the left. Now go back to the elevator and go to the floor that matches your keycard. Use your keycard on the correct hotel room door. Once you enter the room you will automatically answer the phone. Look at the HotelTron 3000, then attach the gum and standard room photo to it. Use the telephone.

Playing as Ray, finish talking to Natalie then go right and talk to the Manager. Once you have Franklin's keycard, use the elevator. First go to the correct floor for the victim's room. Use the keycard to get into the victim's room and take the passport from the table. Now go to the correct floor for Franklin's room. Use the keycard to enter Franklin's room. Look at the gum on the HotelTron 3000, then leave the room again. Franklin will now become a playable character.

Playing as Franklin, float out through the door. Zap the elevator call button, then enter the elevator and take it down to the lobby. Go right to the drinking fountain and splash it when the annoying kid takes a drink.

Playing as Ray, use your map to return to Main Street, then enter Town Hall. Go to the Coroner's office, where you now have all the evidence you need:

  • Use both the bloody toilet paper and the bloody wallet on the BloodTron 3000.
  • Open the fingerprint kit and use it on the ice pick. Use your sticky tape on the ice pick, then use both the sticky tape and the fingerprint book on the FingerTron 3000.
  • Use both the photo of the body and the passport in the FaceTron 3000.

Take all 3 reports and head up to the Sheriff's office. Try to put a report into the ArrestTron 3000, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Playing as Delores, go upstairs into the library. After talking to Lenore, leave here and go up to Uncle Chuck's room. Take the large vacuum tube from the left. Leave the mansion. Walk right to reach the country road, then go all the way to the Sheriff's office. Take a county map from Ray. Look at the ArrestTron 3000, then use your large vacuum tube on it.

Playing as Ray, put all 3 reports into the ArrestTron 3000.

Part 4: The Will

Playing as Delores, use your map to go to Edmund Mansion and head up the library. Use the telephone book to get the number for KSCUM Radio. Use the telephone to dial this number and answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Here are the questions you might get asked:

  • What was Jenny's phone number? 867-5309
  • Where were the much boycotted 1980 Summer Olympic Games held? Moscow
  • Who played Marty McFly in Back to the Future? Michael J Fox
  • In the groundbreaking new game, Maniac Mansion, what was the name of the evil tentacle? Purple Tentacle
  • Finish this popular political ad slogan: "Where's the ____?" Beef
  • Name the American who won 4 gold medals at the 1984 Olympics? Carl Lewis
  • The hit song "We Are The World" was a recording of 45 musicians for which charity? African famine relief
  • What television event drew more than 750 million viewers worldwide? The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
  • Who said, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall?" Ronald Reagan
  • Fill in the blank: This is your brain... This is drugs... This is your brain on drugs...
  • Which volcano erupted in 1980? Mount Saint Helens
  • Who was the president of the United States in 1982? Ronald Reagan
  • Which has not been a fad so far in the 80s? Lava Lamp
  • Which TV show had 83 million viewers tune in to find out who shot JR? Dallas
  • Name the 4 Pac Man ghosts. Inky Blinky Pinky Clyde
  • What are Vice President Bush's middle initials? HW
  • What popular weekly radio show does Casey Kasem host? American Top 40
  • What was ET's favourite kind of candy? Reese's Pieces

Playing as Delores, travel to Main Street and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (3/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street.

Playing as Ransome, travel to Main Street and enter the S&D Diner. Talk to Sandy to order a hotdog (4/4) - you will automatically vomit in the back alley, then come back out to Main Street.

Playing as Ray, use your telephone, then exit your room.

Playing as Reyes, use your telephone, then exit your room. Open your package to find your father's old pocket watch.

Playing as Ray, open your package to find a strange tool.

Playing as Delores, return out to Main Street and enter the S&D Diner and talk to Sandy to order a hamburger (you can only do this if all the hotdogs have been eaten). Go back outside and head left along Main Street to enter Safely First Savings. Walk right and wait for Mr El Paulo to turn around, then quickly take the factory key from the wall. Use your map to go to the hotel. Talk to the Manager here to get your 4 ThimbleCon tickets (give the same name you provided to the radio station). Go upstairs and try to go through the ThimbleCon entrance, then show your ticket to the dragon. Inside, talk to Brant (at the Cosplay Legal Advice stand) - he will go to the mansion. Next talk to the Sexy Riker and give him the hamburger. After he leaves, pick up his jeweler's tools. Go to Town Hall.

Playing as Reyes, travel to Town Hall and get the jeweler's tools from Delores. Go up to the Sheriff's office and talk to Willie in the holding cell. Give him your broken watch, then your jeweler's tools, then the watch again, and promise to prove his innocence.

Playing as Delores, travel to the hotel. Enter the elevator and use it to go up to the penthouse.�Open the secret entrance to the right and go inside.�Now use your map to head back to the Edmund Mansion. Go to the library to find that the will still cannot be read out - you will receive the will and need to decode it somehow. Head up to your room again. Pick up the Graphics BASIC software from next to the computer and use it with the computer. Now use the will on the computer to decode it. Go down to the library and give the thimbleberry pie and the will to Brant.

Playing as Franklin, use the elevator to get up to the penthouse, and also go through the secret entrance. Go through the portal. Float through the tomb door and zap the switch.

Part 5: The Reading

Delores and family will enter the tomb for the reading of the will.

Part 6: The Factory

Playing as Delores, travel to the abandoned factory. Walk right until you see the padlock and chain, then use your factory key in the padlock. Head towards the factory. Go through the archway, then right to find an electric truck. Now push the lever and the truck will move. Go back through the archway and left to find some big doors.

Playing as Reyes, travel to the abandoned factory. Go through the archway, then left and through an open doorway. Look at the picture on the desk. Pick up the handbook and read it - make a note of the security phone number at the end.

Playing as Ray, travel to the abandoned factory. Head to the far left and stand near the big doors. Use your cell phone to call the security number and note the time that is read out.

Playing as Reyes, go around to the big doors and you will find time clock 1 here. Use your pocket watch on it, then set the time according to Ray's recent phone call - the light should turn green when correct. Head right to time clock 2, and set the time here to 5 minutes after clock 1. Similarly, set time clock 3 to another 5 minutes forward, and time clock 4 to yet another 5 minutes forward. Go back to the big doors and push the red button. Pull the big doors.

Playing as Ray, pull the big doors.

Playing as Ransome, travel to the abandoned factory and pull the big doors.

Playing as Delores, go through the big doors.

Part 7: The Madness

Playing as Delores, climb down the ladder, then walk through the next few corridors and open the exit door at the end, which provides a shortcut to the bottom of the factory. Go back inside and open the other wooden door here, then go through. Pick up the floppy disk from the desk, and the hat from the hat stand. Insert the floppy disk into the computer. Look at the computer and select "Hard reboot".

Part 8: The Escape

Playing as Delores, leave the office and open the blast door. Go down the stairs and along the corridor, pressing the red button at the end (if the robot arms are active, crash the computer again before coming back down and trying this again). Continue right to see the evil lasers. Wear the hat, and you can safely walk to the right. Continue through the next door. Look at the sign next to the large fan and note the 4-digit number.

Playing as Franklin, leave the tomb and go back through the portal. Use the elevator to go down to a guest room and zap the phone, then dial the number from the fan sign.

Playing as Delores, walk through the fan once it has stopped.

Playing as Franklin, zap the same phone number again.

Playing as Delores, you can now climb up the ladder here to return to the others.

Playing as Ray, go down through the trapdoor and use your strange tool on the slot to the right.

Playing as Delores, go down through the trapdoor and head right through the doorway. Push 7 of the big tubes, then you will talk to Uncle Chuck.

Part 9: The Deleting

Playing as Franklin, use the elevator to get back up to the penthouse. Talk to Xavier on the left until you end up with the ghostly crystal. Go back through the secret entrance on the right.

Playing as Ransome, travel to Main Street and enter the diner. Give the card to Sandy and you will appear back in your flashback. Go through the stage door. You can now proceed in one of two ways:

  • Be as nice as possible during the show to see a good ending.
  • Be as horrible as possible during the show to see a bad ending

Playing as Ray, head to the hotel and up to ThimbleCon. Give the award to the last attendee. After he leaves, take the puzzle dependency chart.

Playing as Reyes, go to A Street and enter Nickel News. Give Chuck's confession to Natalie, then select any options when talking to her.

Playing as Delores, travel to the hotel and use the elevator to go up to the penthouse. Go through the secret entrance to join Franklin, then talk to him. Now use the map to head back to the bridge. Use the balloon animal on the corpse.

Head left to the highway, then go right until you reach the map. Go to the abandoned factory and open the gate, then go through. Continue through the big doors, then the second door to the right. Head down the stairs and through the blast door, then past each of the traps. Climb through the opening in the PillowTron. Push all 8 of the big tubes Easy Win.