A Warm Reception Hints

General Hints

1) Examine everything! There might be instructions or hints in the description.
2) Reread examinations. There are some jokes for the sake of jokes, but a lot of sentences that may seem like throw away observations actually give you hints to solving the puzzles
3) Don't get too stressed about completing everything and solving every puzzle. No story beats are hidden behind intense puzzles, and whether or not you succeed is based on a die roll. The more weapons and armor you collect, the better your odds, but if something is really getting you stuck, the game is built so that you can skip it and still have a complete experience.




Specific Hints

How do I get out of the darkness/wine cellar?

1) Check every room and examine everything on the ground floor.
2) Look for the lamp and pizza (be sure the lamp is on)
3) The lamp is east of the Main Hall and must be turned on, and the pizza in the Dining Room has the key to the door in the cellar

How do I get past the E/W Crawl?

1) You don't need any more items for this puzzle. The fact that you asked this question means that you have what you need to solve it. Check your inventory and think about what you can do
2) Moths are attracted to light
3) If your lamp is off, or you don't take it with you, the moths wont attack you

How do I open the jewelry box?

1) There is an item from another part of the castle which will help you. It is not a key.
2) The item is in the room of the person who takes care of the dragon.
3) Go to the Servants Quarters. Examine the bookcase, and then the book How To Amass A Great Fortune. A lock pick should fall out of the book, which you can use to open the jewelry box.

How do I get the bad luck prize?

1) Come back to this room. You can brute force it, but there is an item somewhere else that will help you
2) There is an item on the third floor of the castle that can give you bad luck
3) In the Powder Room off of the Princess Room, there's a hand mirror. Take that back here, break it, then use your 7 turns of bad luck to win the bad luck prize

How do I solve the maze?

1) Examine the numpad
2) The orientation of the numpad is important. Where is 4, and what could "W" mean? Where is 8 for Maze 8?
3) The number on the numpad is in the cardinal direction you need to go to progress through the maze. Since 8 is in the top middle, it points "north," so you go north in Maze 8. The rest of the rooms follow this pattern, with Maze 6 being west, Maze 3 being south west, Maze 4 being east and Maze 2 being south

What is the combination to the safe?

1) The combination is a single, four digit number. The answer is in the King's Bedroom (on the same floor as the Queen's, where the safe is)
2) The combination is a number that the King and Queen should both remember
3) It is 1644, the year of the royal couple's anniversary

How do I get the armor?

1) You'll need something from another room for this. A room you might not have figured out how to enter
2) You'll need to destroy all the dresses in the wardrobe to solve this puzzle. Do you have anything that destroys clothes?
3) Drop the moth cage from the Moth Hatchery in the Wardrobe and the moths will eat all the dresses, except the suit of armor, which they can't eat (see How Do I Get Past E/W Crawl if you cannot enter the hatchery to get the cage)




Ending Hints

What are all the treasures?

Armor, Boots, Helmet, Gauntlets, Pauldrons, Ring of Power, Shield, Sword. Locations and other hints are in the "Spoiler Full" map

How do I guarantee that I beat the dragon? If I roll a 1, I always lose?

That's on purpose. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean-Luc Picard
