In this short game based on the story of Rapunzel, you play as a woman who was imprisoned in this tower years ago by a witch. Your solitude has developed your skills, but you are now ready to leave. Take your time.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on version 1 of the game.
"Take your time", eh? The main mechanic in this game is removing units of time from old objects, making them younger, then putting that time onto other things, making them older.
> about. x me. x hair.
> x apple. take apple.
> take month. i. x apple. x month.
> x cauldron. open cauldron. x potion.
> put month on potion. x potion.
> drink potion.(Your hair is now strong.)
> x fire.
> u.
Blue Tower
> x images.(has decade)
> x window. x bed.
> x box. take box. open it.
> x candle.(has hour)
> x comb. x shears. x paintbrush. x pot.
> take hour. x candle. x hour.
> take decade. x decade.
> d.
Kitchen
> light candle with fire. d.
Store Room
This room is normally dark.
> x indigo. x stairs. take millennium.
> x millennium. x stairs.
> u. u.
Blue Tower
> put millennium on window.
> put decade on hair.
> cut hair with shears. x hair.
> s.
At the Foot of the Tower
*** You have escaped ***
Extras
Characters
There are no other characters in this game, but a few are mentioned:
A witch who placed you in this tower.
Villagers who keep you supplied with basic necessities.
A lord who was looking for you.
Inventory
Normal items:
a withered apple. It's in the kitchen. Take the month from it; it is now a fresh apple. Feel free to eat the fresh apple if you want to.
a small wooden box. It's in the blue tower. Open it; it contains several things.
a stub of candle. It's in the small wooden box. Take the hour from it; it is now a candle. Light the candle with the kitchen's fire. Use the candle's light to see in the store room.
a comb. It's in the small wooden box. You may ignore the comb.
some shears. They're in the small wooden box. After drinking the completed potion and growing your hair another decade, cut your hair with the shears.
a stained paintbrush. It's in the small wooden box. You may ignore the paintbrush.
a chamber pot. It's in the blue tower. You may ignore the pot.
some indigo cuttings. They're in the store room. You may ignore the cuttings.
a braid. You make it from your hair. Drink the completed potion from the kitchen's cauldron (see month). Put a decade on your hair to grow it. Then cut your hair with the shears. Take the braid to the blue tower. If you've also aged the window a millennium, you can now escape the tower by going south through the window, climbing down your braid.
Note that you cannot cut your hair until it is both long and fortified, but you can choose if you want to fortify first then grow or grow first then fortify.
Time items:
an hour. Take it from the stub of candle. There's no obvious use for the hour.
a month. Take it from the withered apple. Put it on the potion in the kitchen's cauldron to finish the potion.
a decade. Take it from the images in the blue tower. Put it on your hair.
a millennium. Take it from the stairs in the store room. Put it on the window in the blue tower.
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