FAQ, TIPS, HINTS & SPOILERS TO DAVID GOOD'S "MENAGERIE!" ©2001 by David D. Good These are Questions and answers about the game in a different format from the walkthrough file. I have separated them so you dont read too much you dont want to know. Warning, the further down you read, the more secrets you will learn. *************** Q: How do I play the midway games? A: You need tokens to play the games. You can do this by going to the main entrance and type "buy n tokens" where n is a number. They are 2 for a dollar, so you can only buy even numbers. If you want, you can also "sell n tokens" to get money back. *************** Q: Do I get anything for playing the arcade games? A: You get the satisfaction of knowing you blew a token in an arcade. Reminiscent of the hours you wasted in arcades as a teenager, you know? *************** Q: I started with $2 and ran out of money playing midway games. How can I get more? A: Money can be found in several places. Either you can play the Wheel of Fortune, or you can take Bill's tip jar, which is on the calliope. There are also a few items you can sell in order to get money, but all the money required to complete the game is found at the Wheel and Tip Jar. Anything else are basically extras for people who inadvertantly spent all their money. *************** Q: How did I get a negative score? A: Sounds like you enjoy playing the Wheel of Fortune a bit too much. *************** Q: How do I get into the Big Top tent? A: You need to win a ticket to get in, which is one of the midway prizes. *************** Q: What do I do in the gypsy's tent? A: Try "Ask for reading". *************** Q: I went to the Gypsy and she said she couldn't concentrate. A: Go to the funhouse. You must get Bill to stop playing the calliope. *************** Q: How do I get Bill to stop playing? A: What is in the funhouse with Bill? What might distract him? *************** Q: Does Wemmie do anything? A: Oh, she can answer questions about the games and give you tips if you ask the right things. But she won't talk to a perfect stranger - maybe you need to break the ice by giving her something she would like? *************** Q: Does the dancer do anything? A: Let's say you go to a bar and there's an especially nice dancer you like. What do you do? *************** Q: Can I kill anyone? A: No. You're an animal rights activist and abhor violence. *************** Q: My money and tokens were stolen. Can I get them back? A: No. *************** Q: OK I got in the tent. Now what? A: Well, you need to recover three things to accomplish your mission - the battery, the videotape and the videocamera. If you got the case too, thats nice too. *************** Q: I have those three things. What do I do with them? A: Put the battery and the tape in the camera, then "use camera" in the vicinity of the animal cages. Woohoo you won. *************** SPOILER WARNING! DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!!! Q: I found the battery but I can't find anything else. A: Try looking at the animal cages. *************** Q: I can't get the tape, it tells me I might get bitten. A: Perhaps someone would help you get it? Someone who is more familiar with the animals? *************** Q: OK I got the tape and the battery. Wheres the camera? A: The camera is in the clown dressing room. *************** Q: All I find in there is this guy that keeps shooting me with a toy gun. A: Did you look at the trunk? *************** Q: Oh! It's locked though. Now what? A: The combination is three numbers. Each is lower than 20. *************** Q: Huh? I am brain dead. A: Where in the game have you been presented with numbers? *************** Q: Nowhere that I can recall. A: Come on, you don't have to be psychic to get this puzzle. *************** Q: Can I have another hint? A: Think roman numerals. *************** Q: I don't remember any roman numerals in the game. A: Perhaps winning this game isn't in the cards for you. *************** Q: I am playing Hard level and I have the camera, tape and battery. Why wont it work? A: In hard level, you must also have the camera case to use the camera. *************** Q: How do I get the camera case? A: Try giving popcorn to Zap. *************** Q: I gave the popcorn to Bill. A: You will have to buy another sack of popcorn from the vendor. *************** Q: I ran out of money! The food in hard version costs more! A: That's what makes it hard! Try budgeting better. Just kidding. Did you find a toy knife? If so, maybe someone would buy it. Also, you can sell your score points to Marie the ticket lady. In the main entrance, you can type "sell 10 points" or "sell 20 points" and she will give you $1 for every 10 points you want to sell. You can sell up to 50 points at a time, you must sell in numbers divisible by 10. In hard mode, you may only sell 10 points and no more. *************** Q: I completed the game and it tells me I missed some scoring opprotunities. Now what? A: Play the game again, and go over the rooms in more detail. Perhaps you will notice something you missed before. *************** Q: I dont want to guess. Just tell me. A: Try looking under the east bleachers. *************** Q: So what do I do with Pringles? A: Perhaps he's hungry? *************** Q: OK I have the knife, what do I do with it? A: Do you remember meeting anyone else who had toy weapons? *************** Q: So, I should give the knife to someone who has toy weapons? A: Actually the toy knife has 2 functions. Either you can give it to the Clown Cowboy, or you can sell it to Marie the ticket lady for $2. Nice if you are really short on cash and discover you need to buy another food item. Either of those functions is an identical scoring opprotunity, so unless you need the money it doesn't matter which you do. *************** SPOILER WARNING! SECRETS BELOW!!!!! Q: There seems to be a lot of ways to die in this game. Can you tell me all of them? A: Sure. Open any of the animal cages. Sitting on the east or west bleachers will produce a variety of deaths. Rescue the aerial act. Don't rescue the aerial act. Jump from the platform. Eat the peanuts, popcorn or crackerjacks (it doesnt always kill you). Entering the funhouse (sometimes). Play the pinball game and after a somewhat random number of moves an animal kills you (except in easy mode). After a certain number of moves if you havent solved the game yet, a disgruntled clown will kill you. And of course, the car accident. Each death is a scoring opprotunity, but they are not calculated into the total number of potential points in the end game (except the car accident). So, if the game says the max score is 140, that total does not include say, getting trampled by an elephant. In fact if you include all of those, the game has a total of 425 points as of this writing. But thats not fair since you can only be killed one way, so the 140 total includes only one death. *************** There you have it, thats all the scoring opprotunities that don't kill you, plus all the ones that do.