I am in Tambo 2 and need to cut the grass. I thought I did this earlier but it is still saying that I need to do it. I finally looked at a hint which asked if I had brought a knife. I do not have a knife and don't know where to get it?

Hi ob, hopefully someone will be along who can assist you with this.

I know BeaSong was on already and her name was still showing at the bottom so I thought I'd try to catch her. I should have posted last night but thought I'd try one more time by myself or just try another in-game hint. I don't know how often she checks here.

She will probably see this, but you can always send her a PM if need be to let her know you have posted a question.

Sorry OB if you are still stuck. I'll get BeaSong for you.

Hey there! if you turn right at the entrance to the bridge, the path will take you to a place that has the knife at the bottom of a tree.
Good luck.
I'm so happy that you are trying out the game.

Meanwhile, I'll keep a closer eye on here if you get stuck. 💕

Thanks BeaSong, but there is no knife there. I'm almost sure I cut the grass earlier and gave it to somebody? Still stuck.

Ana, .

I probably should add that I am also stuck at the water where the Lapis Lazuli is. I cannot do anything at all there either.

My inventory consists of a rock and a branch. Nothing else to find anywhere?

Oh, No Knife? Hmm. No way to cut the grass without it. I think maybe what looks like a branch is the knife.
And the grass goes on the bridge.
Are you playing on the Windows version on Mac or iPad ?

Did you click on the big rock and place it in the river so you could reach the Lapis stone?

Okay, BeaSong. Even though it said I need to cut the grass, I had already done that. It was the Lapiz Lazuli holding me up. I guess I had not tried the rock in the right spot in the river. This time it worked and I attached the Lapis Lazuli to the branch that was in my inventory, used it, and have now passed into Tambo 3.

I am playing on Windows from Steam.

Please keep checking back now and then.

There is a lot of clicking around but it is a nice, peaceful game with different and interesting locations.

OH!!! You were farther along than I thought! WOW! You're doing great! Yes, I'm hoping that it remains a calm enjoyable journey, and don't forget to look at the awards page (in Extras) to see your trophies. If you need to get to me faster, I will see email at [removed]
Happy Gaming!

Hi BeaSong, we do not allow postings of email addresses in the forum due to the possibility of spammers and other undesirables using it, so I have removed it from your post.

If you could send the email address you posted via private message to oldbroad, that would be great.

Oh, sorry. I thought the posts between us were private. So sorry. Is the correct link the one that says EMAIL POST? Thank you so much.Obviously green at this

BeaSong, no. Just click on oldbroad's name and select "Send Private Message." When you send a private message it is not visible in the public forums. Believe it or not, there are stalkers and scammers on this page now and then! We just want to keep everyone safe!

Oh indeed I know there are. I thought what I was using was private. Thank you so much, Drac, I appreciate your help!!!!💕

Great! Here in the forums we are viewable by the public at large.

I tried to send a private message and got an alert that says she's over her topic limit. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oldbroad, as BeaSong says, it appears that your PMs are over the limit. Maybe time to do some pruning of old PMs! I had to do it a few months ago too.

I am at my quota now and will clean that up soon, however, I did receive your email address that you PM'd yesterday. Did you try to send another?

Okay, made some space.

Oh, great! I just wanted to make sure you had access to get help if you need it and I didn't know how this worked to get a note to you. Now I think I do. Did you find all of the gold in the first Tambo? If not, that would explain the extra stone that is still in the inventory if you still have it. The stone was to break the pot in the first scene.

BeaSong, I did reply to your PM yesterday. Have you noticed that the envelope next to your name at the upper right of the screen is blinking? That is telling you that you have a message. I know you mentioned not being used to using the PM.

Yes, I did find all the gold in the first and second Tambos. I did not get to play today but I am currently at the point in Tambo 3 where I am trying to build a rock pile (not sure what it might be called). I think I am missing a rock for it but want to get back in the game and look around again before deciding if I need help with it. That "extra" stone that had been in my inventory was the one to put in the river to get to the Lapiz Lazuli, remember?

Oh! I didn't know about the blinky thing. Thanx! Oh, the stones for the cairn pile are at the entrance of the maze and if you tap on them, you will see them recorded in the journal so you can see if you have them all and how to stack them. And in that scene it's a bit sneaky because you are encouraged to leave before going LEFT to find more gold. I love that scene because I remember taking the photo of that fountain in Perú. So fun! P.S. don't worry about not playing off and on. Besides, it's football season. 😆

I found what I needed and continued into Tambo 4 BUT I did miss one piece of gold even though I went back over everywhere a few times. I know I can go back into Tambo 3 but will I be able to collect the last piece of gold from there if I ever find it? I don't want to spend time looking anymore unless I'll be able to take it. I had missed sending it in Tambo 1 but was able to go back and get all of it sent even after starting Tambo 2.

Well if you've made it to Tambo 4, your observation skills must be GOOD! YAY!!! You can use the Map icon to jump back to take a look, but I think it would be more fun just to keep going to finish the game since each tambo is so different and then after a time play it again on another level. I've played it hundreds of times and still have to go back to get things I've missed.

Okay, thanks BeaSong.

I guess I'm in need of help again. I'm at the puzzle in Tambo 5 where the hints tell me this:

The heat must rise high enough to melt the ore before the flux is added

and

Then the mold must be cooled

I think I used a reed here and now I am stuck. I have a crucible. I have the flux and the mold. I can't seem to use anything anywhere though.

Ah yes, Looks like you might be missing the ore which is on the floor. I'll see if I can find which floor. First you must blow the flame 3 times with the reed, then place the crucible with the ore in it above the fire then add the flux, then place the bone mold on the floor to put the melted ore that makes a Tupu, then place the mold in the water to cool. That should give you the tupu which you will need later.

Thanks BeaSong. I received your PM also and went around with both the axe and the pick trying walls. I hit something with the pick in the room (I think with the Eagle) but I don't know what actually happened. I no longer have the pick but I also don't have any ore and still can't do anything in the puzzle. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing or where I'm missing it.

I tried to PM you the answer but must not be doing it right. Sounds like you have the right order of events. You have the tube to blow the flame 3 times, then the Crucible on top with the gold ore and flux in it, then place in the mold on the floor to make the tupu, then the water to cool. Sounds like you did the whole thing right. I don't see what you might be missing. If it doesn't allow you to go on, that probably means that you are missing something that you will need to exit this Tambo or to use in the next Tambo, but it you got this far you have done REALLY well and only have a couple of scenes to go. Maybe it's the gem on the floor when you first come in and light the torch, I always miss that one. This Tambo will make the others seem easier.

I just found the gem today. What torch? The one in the room with the cat?

I have not done all of what you are stating. That is what I am trying to do but am unable to do. I'm pretty sure I used the reed as the flame is quite high but I do still have a reed in inventory, and I have the crucible but I don't know if there is ore in it or not. I never found any ore. I cannot put the crucible on the flame at all and cannot put the flux in it. Nor can I put the mold on the floor . I guess I may just have to skip this puzzle as I'm not sure I'm explaining right about what I need help with. I have gone past this room but cannot yet do anything more there either.

Ah yes, the gem is outside of the room that had the flux. Yes, the reed is used 3x to get the fire hot enough, then the reed goes away. I'm thinking the gold ore is what's missing. As long as you have placed the symbols above the doors of the condor, puma and snake, you should have everything to get thru the next Tambo. Oh, and make sure you collected a bag from the floor before you leave. You'll need it in the next tambo. This is definitely a difficult tambo!

I'm sorry. I have placed all the symbols and I have the bag. I cannot proceed. I can get to another room where there is a ladder but "I must not leave the Llama behind". I can also get outside to where a person is sitting on a wall but I assume I need to gift the person with something that I do not have.

No need to be sorry, you are doing great to get so far and patient for me to reply. Yes, you are right. The first woman gets the Tupu that you made with the smelting. Even if you skipped, you should have the Tupu. Then the next two women need a gem each. The first gem is in the first scene that has the torch and the last gem is in the scene leaving the smelting room on the way out.

I didn't skip yet. I was hoping to be able to work the puzzle out. Where do I get the ore and how do I pick it up? What does it look like? There is something on the floor right where the puzzle is that I think could be ore but I cannot pick it up so I don't know. Is there some trick to putting the crucible on the flame, like some exact spot that I might be missing?

It is just a chunk of gold on the floor that you tap to collect. I can't remember which scene. I think it's in the same place where you found the crucible. I'll have to go see if I can find it. No trick to the crucible, it just has to have the gold in it to work.

I hope your are doing OK. I'm out camping and only have spotty coverage.

I haven't been playing much because I'm trying to avoid skipping that puzzle but still not getting anywhere.

Enjoy your camping (or glamping as you mentioned on the other post)!

I'm going to hunt for that piece of gold soon as I get a chance so I can tell you where it is.

Okay, thanks!

Got it! The gold ore is on the floor in the same room where you found the crucible and mold for the tupu. You need to put the ore in the crucible before you place the crucible above the smelting pot and add the flux to that then you will be able to place the mold to pour the gold to make the tupu, then cool it in the water and leave through that door

Unfortunately, I don't know which room I found the crucible in. Can you describe it to me?

Yes, wish I could send you a picture. It is the first room that you come to that has two tunnels to go through right after the room that has the puma above the braced tunnel. I hope that makes sense.

Okay, there are two bags, a vase, 4 axes, 2 hanging spiders, 2 bugs on the floor, but NO ore that I can see or pick up - clicked all over. Could I have encountered a glitch of some kind?

Yes, that's the room. did you scroll your inventory bag sideways to make she it's not in your bag? check that and I'll recheck mine. OK, checked mine. If yours isn't there we must have found a bug. I'll check it with my programmer

It's not in my inventory UNLESS it is already in the Crucible which I can't tell. In that case (if it's in the crucible) then the problem is actually with putting the crucible above the smelting top which I cannot do. I can't be certain which area is the real problem. I may have picked the ore up and put it in the Crucible already. I just can't remember. There is a lot of clicking and I sometimes am not sure what is happening.

Thank you for all your help, BeaSong!

OHBOY! I understand. That one has maybe too many elements to combine. So, if the crucible can't be placed above the pot with the ore in it, maybe there is something else missing. You picked up the flux with the mortar bowl, right? That would go next if we can get that crucible up there. And the fire is three high, and you have the mold, so I can't think of what else it could be that could be missing. Darn frustrating! I'm going to replay it to see if I can find anything that helps. I can play it on Windows 10 or 11. Which Windows are you using?

Yes, I have the flux and the mold. I THINK the fire has been dealt with but since I don't know what it should look like I cannot be sure. The smoke does go up high towards the ceiling. I am almost positive that I had picked up 2 reeds. I did use one on the smelter and then (again I THINK) it ended up hanging on the wall next to that cord thing, but I do still have a reed in my inventory. It does not do anything if I use it on the smelter though, which would make sense since I believe I already did that BUT you said the reed should then be gone from my inventory, and it's not. Whew! Confusing!

I am playing on Windows 10.

OK, maybe this will help. Assuming that you found the ore in the place that also had the crucible and the mold.
The crucible and the ore have to be combined in the inventory bag BEFORE the crucible is placed above the smelter, then the flux. The crucible will go back to your inventory (maybe it worked for you already?) and then you place the mold on the floor and fill the mold with the crucible that is in your inventory bag. And then to be cooled in the water. Hope this works. I think you were successful before and that's why it's not there. I'm on Windows 10 too.

But I have the flux still showing in inventory and I cannot do anything with it. I also have the mold in inventory but cannot place it onto the floor to fill it from the crucible.

Believe me, I have tried all of the steps over and over and over.

Okay, I was clicking around again and this time I clicked on something that told me that the map will help me to go back for the flute, so maybe I am missing a flute? I had gone back to the very beginning at least once and looked all over for missing items but I am heading back again. Meanwhile, in case I don't find it, where would that be?

Edit: Nope! Another dead end. I found where to get the flute and remember that I did go back earlier and got it. I don't have it anymore so apparently I used it somewhere or gave it to somebody.

So, still stuck!

Oh dern! Let's see, you traded avocados to an old man at the festival for the flute. You earned the gold disc from the elder at the end of that Tambo. You played the flute so the Llama could find you after falling in the mine from the earthquake.
In order to complete the tasks in the mine, you should have the mortar to collect the flux (sounds like you did that). In the first tunnel scene (where you placed the torch) there is a small gem that you will need to give a woman after you leave the Tambo. During your time in the mine you placed the gold figures above the doorways (from collecting the gold figures from the gear puzzle on the wall) that gave you the fishing hook, slingshot and axe, and I think you said that you collected the bag from the floor in one of the tunnels. With that, (and the tupu) we should be able to complete the Tambo. So, I'm curious as to what is left in your bag, to see if you have everything to leave. If you tap on an item in the bag it will say what it is, and you can see if it says the crucible has the gold with it or not. OH! I think it's the mortar that's missing to collect the flux. I'll tell you where it is. Let me go find it. OK, got it. In the Tambo with the maze, it is in the 4th room that you come to, on the floor, before you get to the fountain with the cairn. The map can jump you close to and from.
First thing we need to know is if the gold ore is in the crucible. If so, we can put that above the smelting pot (that is hot from 3 blows of the reed) then add the flux. then we can put the mold on the floor, pour the gold to make the tupu then put it in the water to cool.

I tried to send a PM to you with a walkthru for the mine

I have in my inventory:

The blue flux in a bowl that looks like it has a snake wrapped around it, a bag, a reed (although I know I used a reed already), a blue stone that looks like an apostrophe mark, a sun bracelet (even though I used this before also), the crucible which looks like it has something glowing in it but it doesn't say that it does, the mold, a fish hook, a sling shot, an axe, and one gem.

The smelting pot smoke is way up to the ceiling. I cannot put the crucible on it. I cannot put the flux in the crucible. I cannot put the mold on the floor. I cannot combine anything in the inventory bag to anything else. I have nothing that will go into the water. I can go past this puzzle and outside to where a person is sitting on the wall but I have nothing to give to that person.

Ah, OK, let's see. Looks like you got past the smelting scene. The blue stone that looks like a question mark is for one of the women after you get out. If you used the disc to escape then it should be gone, same as the reed that you tapped 3x to get the flame up to the top. Sounds like the gold is already in the crucible and needs to be placed above the smelting pot and then while it's there, add the flux (which sounds like you have collected into the mortar) on top. No? doesn't work? If you still have those things, they are waiting to be used, so sounds like a matter of what comes first and next. I'm surprised that you got outside without getting the tupu. I'll have to check that out. The first woman you come to gets the tupu, then the other two womem get the gems. Thank you for not getting mad at me for not being able to figure this out. I may have to make an update to this scene. Are you able to place the mold onto the floor?

Not able to do anything!

The smelting pot smoke is way up to the ceiling. I cannot put the crucible on it. I cannot put the flux in the crucible. I cannot put the mold on the floor. I cannot combine anything in the inventory bag to anything else. I have nothing that will go into the water. I can go past this puzzle and outside to where a person is sitting on the wall but I have nothing to give to that person.

Ah, Ok, I understand. But you don't have the reed anymore, right? and you picked up the flux with the mortar (the bowl with the snake)
right? and you have the gold ore in the crucible, yes?. So, the crucible should go above the smelting pot next. Then after it is there, the flux is placed on top of that. and that should give you a crucible with the melted ore in it. That's when the mold can be placed on the floor and the crucible taps onto the mold. Does any of that work?

None of it works!

Dern! How frustrating! I have made a walkthru for Tambo 5 for you to trace your steps but think I should send it in a PM. What do you think? I'm not sure how the PM works. That is, how to get back to it once I send it. Does that make sense.? I tapped your name and chose private message. I hope you got it. If so, I'll put the walk thru there. We gotta get you outta that mine!!!!

I received it. I'll look at it but I cannot really remember each step I took and everything I clicked. Is there any way to restart the chapter in easy mode again? I believe it gives you an option to play in a different mode but I don't want a harder one. This is why manual saves are so desirable.

With the PM, you just go back into the one you sent.

All of that had been done, BeaSong. The puzzle just wasn't working for some reason. I have now skipped the puzzle but I only have one gem for one woman. I think I see the other gem but I cannot pick it up. Is it in the room just after the smelting room on the right side? If so, I cannot pick it up.

BeaSong, to read PMs you have sent, just click on the Messages icon on the upper right. It is the little envelope to the left of your name.

Well, somehow using that blue apostrophe shaped stone got me into Tambo 6 so I'll see how it goes.

YAY!!!! WONDERFUL! This Tambo should be more fun and the next on in the snow will be different too

Well, I am stuck yet again. At the huge rock that has animals on it, I am missing the bottom middle animal.

It's a small black ceramic llama at the base of a tree. You come to it after you give the fish to the bear to get the quipu and continue your journey past the puzzle of the river. If you tap the footprint icon it will show you the path that goes past the puzzle. And, you can get back to the big stone with the map.

BTW, when you get to Tambo 8, it might be a good idea to make a map of your own to help figure out where certain people are who want you to bring them things and be sure to use the Print icon for paths that aren't so obvious. I hope you find the "Easter Egg". There are some things mentioned to collect but you don't have to give them all to the people that ask just a couple of them. I wanted to shorted the tasks. But you will need to collect them in order to enter the puzzle at the end where there are 4 women. And the puzzle has to do with what happens to the herbs to create colors and the clues you tapped are in the journal. The rest of the tambos will be a breeze after that.

I was afraid you might say something about the bear and the fish. I haven't figured that part out yet either.

Ah, the puzzle on the post will open the path across the river to the bear

I did that but I don't know how to get the fish.

Oh! That's a tough one. You need to use the axe you brought from the mine to chop the branch on the tree then join it with the hook and bait. Then the fish will end up in the bag

I've been around a few times trying to find something to chop but I'll check it out again tomorrow and let you know if I still need help.

Thanks, BeaSong!

The branch is in the scene with the fishpond. You're welcome. HAPPY to help! You are kind of acting like a beta tester for me that may cause me to make some game changes. So I will gift you with a table game that has elements of this game if we get that far. We have the table game ready to publish, but are waiting to start marketing this game more widely first. Thank you for such good help and sticking to it. I'm impressed that you are this far already. I think I would have been too frustrated with Tambo 5 and I worry about Tambo 8. My favorites are 9 and 15. I'll be interested to know what you have to say at the end. My close friends are not gamers, so aren't so helpful. 🤣

I just found the stick (wanted to look around again Before reading your post). I don't know how I missed it before. So, I will see how much further along I can get. I'm already thinking that I may try to replay the game soon after I finish it this time because it is a little hard to enjoy when I am stuck every step of the way. I'd like to maybe be able to *flow* through the game a little more easily so I can appreciate it better. I do really like it actually, but there is really a lot of miscellaneous clicking around while trying to find my way.

Oh, excellent. That's great information!

I guess I need help again. I'm in Tambo 8 trying to dye stuff? I don't know what is expected of me. I have everything. The puzzle blinks around the edges which I'm assuming confirms I'm ready for it but nothing happens when I click on anything. Not sure what it wants me to do.

WOW! That's amazing! Tap on the blinky puzzle and you're DONE!. WOW! The journal should have the ropes to show you which knots go where. Oh, Click on the left herb, then on the right knot, then on the string to place it. Once all knots are in place on a string it will bling for that color. Just curious, did you tap the flute player?

Oh darn! I somehow lost my post before I hit the "post reply" button and don't remember how to get back to it.

Yes, I tapped the flute player more than once since I didn't know if more was to happen (besides what she told me).

I have been trying the herbs and knots and ropes but I must be doing something wrong (like wrong order of something maybe) as nothing has happened. I will try again now that you have confirmed that is what I'm supposed to be doing and I know there will be some reaction confirmation when I get it right, and I will post back later.

Thanks.

For the first string Red, Tap the top/left (cactus) which needs to be ground so tap the #2 knot, then #3 knot which is the sulfur pulp, then #5 knot to boil, then tap the Red string to get the "bling" for all the knots in the right place.

Oh, I think maybe I get it. I haven't been able to try again yet. I will later.

Okay, just to update you, I have made it to Tambo 10!

In Tambo 14. I found the woman guarding the Kero. I can't seem to proceed any further. The hint in that screen tells me that "I should change back to the elder before I continue". I don't know what that means. The screen where the key puzzle was, the woman says that I need to find who is guarding the Kero (which I have done). I'm stuck once again!

OHBOY!!!! WOW! Sorry, I lost this post and had to find it again.
From there we have to go out to the yard with the fountain and go up towards the lake which will take us to another yard and there is the bandit with the Llama. We have to play the flute to discover the llama, then tap the old woman who runs to the cliffs to save the Kero. Let me know if that doesn't work. I found a glitch in this Tambo, so hope it got fixed.

No problem. I've been moving along up until tonight.

I guess I need to find a flute somewhere then. Hm.

You might need to use the foot print icon to find the path that takes you to the woman who is holding a baby alpaca. She will trade the flute for the white gem.

Thank you. It was the white gem I was missing. I found it and will continue on tomorrow.

Your progress is impressive! You are up late as I am! No, later, I'm in Oregon!
There is a sneaky clue on the wall where there is a guard at the doorway that helps with the puzzle as you enter the last Tambo.

Yeah, I don't like to go to bed.

I'm still stuck. The only thing I see that looks like a clue is 2 triangle shaped doorway shadows. I don't know where to locate treasure. I don't know where to play the flute.

hmmm, I'm trying to think what might be missing. Did you give the silver bracelet to the soldiers and then go ahead past them?
From the secret portal you go to the main yard that has the fountain. From there you go north, or top/center as if to the lake which takes you to another yard where the bandit is standing with the stolen llama. If that path going top/center isn't open to go there, something is missing, but seems the only thing you need is the flute, so I'm not sure what. If you get to the place where the bandit is standing in front of the llama that has the invisible cape, tap the llama with the flute and tap the elder to transform from the disguise. I'll see if I can find what else could be missing.

I think I'm where you're talking about but the path is not open. Tapping anything with the flute doesn't help.

Hmm, so you made it to the llama and bandit? I can't think of what might be needed. Once the llama and bandit are tapped with the flute, then tapping the elder makes a transformation to run and tapping the people tell what's happening. I'll see if I can play it through to see what it might be. Did you give the elder the amulet after you opened the secret portal?

I feel like I have tapped every person, every animal, and every object but I really don't know what you mean by "the elder". Perhaps I am missing something? I still have 2 rings in my inventory also that nobody seems to want, and 2 gems that I picked up a couple of Tambos back I think, a blue one and a yellow one. On my map there are 2 blank location spaces up north.

Ah, OK, try using the footprint to find the people who need those gems and give you passage. I'll check my notes to see what needs to be done. By the "elder" I mean the old person who comes out of the portal that you open with the key that you get from the puzzle. That elder turns into the old woman who has been guarding the kero. And we need to give that elder an amulet to change into a disguise before going out to the yard. A ring is traded for the amulet. When you first come into the village, you are following a woman and a llama. Go right to one hut, then come back to the left for another hut. Each hut will trade for the correct ring. Then go back so you can go center/forward

Okay, I'll try again. It really does seem that I've tried all this already though. The amulet was done for sure. At least, I gave it to somebody. I hope some wrong person didn't accept it!

What footprint though? You mentioned that before but I don't think I found that either.

EDIT: Well, I don't know. I was able to trade the rings this time and then I did get an amulet so that must have been a different amulet before. Now the path is open and I will continue. Stay tuned!

Oh. Nobody can accept the amulet but the person who steps out of the portal in that Tambo. So now I'm wondering just where you are. Seems that if you gave the amulet and that you have the flute, you should be able to travel to the next yard top center of the yard that has the fountain. So, you haven't seen the bandit in a yard standing with the llama along with a lot of people and some soldiers?
The footprint is the icon at the lower left by the inventory bag. If you tap that it will show the open paths in that scene. I'm sorry this is a pain. I'll make some changes for an update to make it better.

I have been using the "footprint" now and then. I just didn't know that is what you called it.

I am now at that dragon/boat puzzle in Tambo 15. I did see the clue on the wall but so far no luck.

Fabulous! That darn thing gets me every time and I end up skipping it. I'm going to have to fix that. I usually miss the last knob on the left.
I think I'll make each correct knob have a BLING sound or sparkle when it's the correct one.

Just so you know, the game crashed on me and lost a good bit of my progress. I can't tell you exactly where I was until I get back to that area but somebody told me that "some fruit would be appreciated". I didn't have anymore fruit as I had just traded some away for the trap I think. I clicked to the right and crashed. I have to restart at that puzzle with the animals and the key but first I guess I have to find the key again as well as several other items and trades.

Oh NOoooo! That was unexpected! We haven't had that issue yet, so my programmer will have all sorts of questions, like what did you have in your inventory bag so he can figure out where you are and I'll tell him that you are playing on Windows 10, same as I am. He will have to check to see if it's a Steam issue. . DARN! It was going so well and you are so close to the end. Yes, there is fruit everywhere that needs to be chopped and traded. You gave the large bunch of bananas to the first old man that you come to who gives you the key and you chop fruit there too and collect a gold piece to trade with the monkey.

Well, since I was sent back and had played for about an hour, I cannot possibly tell you what was in my inventory. When I go back in and find things again it will not be in the same order. I had to back track at the puzzle because I didn't have the key and I also found a lot of things I had missed on my way through. My guess is that the path was probably not supposed to be showing as open yet but it did. I probably should have traded fruit first and then the path would have opened but it showed the "footprint". When I stepped there is when it crashed. I know it was one or two screens after getting the trap for the frog. Maybe I can pinpoint it better tomorrow when I replay. I didn't have the heart to go back in tonight. This is a hard part of the game and I was using the hint a lot.

Oh rats!. I'm so sorry. But you fell in the hole and used the key and threw the rope out to the monkey, right? Then it crashed?
My programmer just posted a walkthrough on YouTube and I scrolled to Tambo 15 to see if I could figure it out. Here is the link
if it helps. https://youtu.be/gPyjwGE6TMY

I finally went back to the game tonight and finished it, however, there was at least one thing that I did not do. I could not free the monkey because I didn't have anything to "carry" the termites in. There was also mention of honey but I couldn't get any of that either (don't know if I needed it somewhere or not). And somebody supposedly gave me some antigen? but I did not actually receive it. There were a couple of people that seemed like I should have been able to trade something but didn't have anything for them.

To avoid crashing again, I started exiting out of the game when I got around that area again. The spot where it crashed was where you go into the first screen with the frogs in it. I didn't have a problem this time.

Despite all the times I got stuck, I really did enjoy the game and I am going to try to replay it. Hopefully, I won't have so many problems because I'd like to be able to savor the atmosphere and scenery. Manual saves and hot spot indicators (or maybe just a "see hot spots button") would have made the game perfect.

OH WOW! That is really something and SOOOO helpful! GOOD JOB!!! You know, After I make some changes and give this a full launch, we have a table game designed, ready to publish that imitates parts of the game. Once that is done I'll be happy to send you one as a thank you for giving us such good help to improve our game. I sooo appreciate your sticking with it. And if you enjoyed it, I'm thrilled.

about the last Tambo. The monkey scene is delightful when you collect all the pieces. You trade fruit to the first woman who gives you smoke to chase away the bees and chop a stick to get the honey. You must chop a stick to get the honey to into the bowl that you picked up on the way in to the jungle. That stick is hard to find and is with the first scene that has the bees.
You trade the chirimoya to a woman who gives you a coconut. The woman with the child gets the honey and she gives you the termites that go into the coconut. once you have all of that you can get the monkey out of "jail". About the antigen, you are right, it is given to you but doesn't get used. I took it out to make it go faster, but might put it back in. If you needed something to trade, it is most likely fruit that needed to be chopped, like the starfruit in the scene with the woman and child and with the man who gave you the antigen. I'm thinking that the crash may have been because there was something missing that would prevent you from progressing. Thanx again for the great info!!!!

I went back over all the scenes multiple times looking for different fruit to pick/cut but never found more than what I had already used. I had the bamboo stick and the coconut. I hope when I replay it that I can free the monkey and also not have to skip that one puzzle that wouldn't solve for me. I haven't started the replay yet.

Thank you for all your help!

CONGRATULATIONS! I know it's not an easy game, and you did really well. Did you get the honey? you'll need that to save the monkey because the woman trades to give you termites. I hope you get to see the Monkey part. Makes me laugh every time. I really enjoyed following along with you! That was FUN!