The Sultan's Curse
By Steve W Lucas
For Amstrad CPC
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution to a buggy game. Many of the items you find look like they'll be
useful, but the vast majority of them turn out to be red herrings. As your inventory is limited to
four items, you can't just lug everything around with you like a pack horse. I'd suggest
leaving everything alone until you find a use for it. This may mean a lot of back tracking. As
there's a lot of one-way routes and rooms with no apparent exit, then you may need to restart
from the beginning, as there is no save/restore feature. However, there's a bug that you can
use to your advantage if you want to avoid restarting. Type CLIMB anywhere and it returns you to the
sanddune [sic], but you'll need to keep the toadstools and lizard with you so that you can use
the magic carpet again.
Incidentally, you can't LOOK AT or EXAMINE anything and there's no inbuilt HELP, but there
are some valuable hints in the original article.
At one point in the game, you'll find yourself in a dead end with the only exit blocked by a
dog. In order to get past the dog, you have to DROP CHOCOLATES. A huge part of the game is solving
the puzzles that lead to the box of chocolates. However, if you don't enter the dead end in the
first place, then you don't need the chocolates, so you can bypass all this rigmarole. I think
the author made a big mistake by putting the dog in the wrong place. If it had blocked progress to
the end game, it would have served some purpose. Nevertheless, I have included this huge optional
chunk of the game, just for interest's sake. It is clearly marked in the solution.
W
GET ROPE
E
TIE ROPE
CLIMB
W
GET LIZARD
WAIT (wizard takes you to his cottage)
OUT
GET BOOK
READ BOOK (say ABRACADABRA at cave of runes)
IN
GIVE BOOK (wizard says to sit on carpet with toadstools & lizard & say TIVINICA)
OUT
S
W
GET KEY
E
S
GET TOADSTOOLS
E
SAY
ABRACADABRA
S
SIT
TIVINICA
WAIT (you land at steps of sultan's palace and carpet flies away)
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(this is the optional part)
S
S
S
UNLOCK GATES (villagers lock gate behind you)
E
E
GET GLOVES
WEAR GLOVES (so you don't get electrocuted by lever)
W
N
PULL LEVER (temple door opens)
DROP GLOVES
IN (door closes behind you)
GET CHALICE
PRAY (door opens again)
OUT
E (back to the beginning)
E
CLIMB
E
S
S
S
E
S
SIT
TIVINICA
WAIT (back to steps of sultan's palace)
N
KNOCK (guard thanks you for returning chalice and invites you in)
W
N
GET CHOCOLATES
S
E
S
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(back to normal)
DROP LIZARD
DROP TOADSTOOLS
S
S
S
UNLOCK GATES (villagers lock gate behind you)
E
S
IN
E
N
E
S
IN
UP
S
GET TEA
N
DOWN
S
GIVE TEA (old lady lets you borrow her pet bird)
GET BIRD
N
OUT
N
W
S
W
W
S
DOWN
THROW BIRD (it drives python away and flies home to old lady)
W
W
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(and here's why we did all the optional stuff)
S
DROP CHOCOLATES (dog grabs some and runs away)
N
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(back to normal again)
N
SWIM
S
S
GET PIPE
N
N
W
S
GIVE PIPE (sailor now follows you so that you can board ship)
N
E
N
BOARD
***THE END***
