# Hints for LucasArts games **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [April 15, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565 "2018-04-15T15:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/162 "2018-10-03T18:19:48Z")
It´s a @RonGilbert game you gotta do mean things to lots of people. 😁 Remembering that actually helped me through a lot of puzzles in The Cave. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/163 "2018-10-03T18:21:18Z")
“Give me a bloody stump.” “Can’t - chainsaw’s out of gas, HAHAHA.” 😆 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/164 "2018-10-03T18:33:38Z")
Monkey Island 2 could really benefit from a To Do list like TWP. I guess in those days of hardcore adventure gaming part of the puzzle was to pay attention and remember what to do 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/165 "2018-10-03T18:46:21Z")
Yeah it gets real excessively big in that middle part. I guess they just forgot that the players obviously had no access to those neat handy puzzle charts. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/166 "2018-10-03T18:52:26Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > To Do list like TWP No one needs those! Tsts. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/167 "2018-10-03T19:06:09Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > There I be 😄 > > ![Monkey%20Island%202%20Special%20Edition_%20LeChuck's%20Revenge%2030_09_2018%2010_45_20](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/8/836d97d71ac29c7c29c837e2cddac098bdee1602.png) > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Self-fulfilling prophecies Tell me about it! > [@\[community game\] The Christmas Thimbleweed Park Quiz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/community-game-the-christmas-thimbleweed-park-quiz/2183/168): > > I always pictured her as: [IMG\_3135] (In hindsight, it is amazing you chose your avatar and nickname before playing MI) Also > [@Cool things in old Lucasfilm Games adventures that you only discovered years later](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cool-things-in-old-lucasfilm-games-adventures-that-you-only-discovered-years-later/42/104): > > Try picking her up! Also never occured to me as a kid ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/168 "2018-10-03T19:06:24Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > No one needs those! Tsts. We need a word for comments like this. I suggest “gamersplaining”. > [@Sushi](#): > > (In hindsight, it is amazing you chose your avatar and nickname before playing MI) Yeah but not the first one, that both are from. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/169 "2018-10-03T19:12:30Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > those days of hardcore adventure gaming part of the puzzle was to pay attention and remember what to do 🙂 I think these days it is more handholding, watered down, rather than “hardcore” back then. Surely looking at Lucasarts adventures. Guess-the-parser and Sierra-deaths were more hardcore indeed. Plus we didn’t have social media and fora to get distracted by while playing, so we could focus on every slight clue. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/170 "2018-10-03T19:18:43Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > Tell me about it! > [[community game] The Christmas Thimbleweed Park Quiz - #168 by Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/community-game-the-christmas-thimbleweed-park-quiz/2183/168) > > (In hindsight, it is amazing you chose your avatar and nickname before playing MI) As Milan says I’d played but not completed the first MI, so I knew the relevance of the chicken pulley. But not my screen name 😃 > [@Cool things in old Lucasfilm Games adventures that you only discovered years later](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cool-things-in-old-lucasfilm-games-adventures-that-you-only-discovered-years-later/42/104): > > Try picking her up! Also never occured to me as a kid Haha, that’s clever 😆 (though I was kinda hoping he’d actually pick her up and pop her in his inventory) ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/171 "2018-10-03T19:20:30Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > I think these days it is more handholding, watered down, rather than “hardcore” back then. Yeah I do think that. People tried a bit harder in those days, because they didn’t really have a choice. > [@Sushi](#): > > Plus we didn’t have social media and fora to get distracted by while playing, so we could focus on every slight clue. Distracted by Twitter and the forum? Poppycock! ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/172 "2018-10-03T19:21:32Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Poppycock! 😂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/173 "2018-10-03T19:25:29Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > But not my screen name 😃 Speaking of which. In germany the pieces of eight are just called pieces of gold. Which might be because of ![grafik](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/a/af7eec8badefbfa608a360fd00ddc6591f6dfcf9.jpeg) > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Distracted by Twitter and the forum? Poppycock! I´d rather confusingly talk to you simultanously on the forum, twitter and the quizup chat than not at all. So that is one advantage of it not being the 90s anymore, I´d say. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/174 "2018-10-03T19:50:40Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Speaking of which. In germany the pieces of eight are just called pieces of gold. Shame my name’s not… er… Penfold. > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > So that is one advantage of it not being the 90s anymore, I´d say. 🙂 Aww 😊 ---
**Author:** ![kaiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/175 "2018-10-03T20:02:01Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > In germany the pieces of eight are just called pieces of gold. When in fact they were silver coins. Though I guess no respectable computer game would fob the player off with mere silver 🙂. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/176 "2018-10-03T21:29:57Z")
Reading this back again, for clarification ‘Pieces of Kate’ isn’t based on MI at all. It was just a fun-sounding piratey name I came up with at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/177 "2018-10-03T22:44:15Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > > [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > > > No one needs those! Tsts. > > We need a word for comments like this. > > I suggest “gamersplaining”. We are professionals here, we don’t need no stinkin’ ToDo lists! (And can somebody explain me how the ∗beep∗ does this ‘don’t need no’ make any sense?) > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > It was just a fun-sounding piratey name I came up with at the time. Interesting coincidence… you have probably fooled us all 😃 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/178 "2018-10-04T00:17:44Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > don’t need no You mean the double negative that isn´t really a double negative? Can´t Get No Satisfaction > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I knew the relevance of the chicken pulley. Also as an aside in the german version the rubber chicken doesn´t have a pulley but a carabiner. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/179 "2018-10-04T05:50:53Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > in the german version the rubber chicken doesn´t have a pulley but a carabiner. I bet you prefer the English version though! 😉 As an aside to the aside, imagine the look on the face of whoever got the list of items to make inventory icons of (as most of you know, MI was released with text inventory like in MM, Zak and Indy3; the icons were added for the VGA-CD release a couple of years later)… “_I need to draw a WHAT_?!” ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/180 "2018-10-04T06:39:02Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > Interesting coincidence… you have probably fooled us all 😃 Pieces of eight is quite a common pirate term, though - I never think of that as specifically MI. But in conjunction with Capsize Kate I admit it’s rather apt 😄 > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Also as an aside in the german version the rubber chicken doesn´t have a pulley but a carabiner. Much more efficient wording! > [@Sushi](#): > > “_I need to draw a WHAT_?!” 😂 I’d love to know how many incarnations they went through before the final version. If I ever meet Ron that will be my leading question. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565/181 "2018-10-04T09:49:35Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > You mean the double negative that isn´t really a double negative? Exactly[.](https://youtu.be/FaOSCASqLsE?t=90) > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Much more efficient wording! If a language is known for its efficient wording than it’s the German language: > **[The Old New Thing](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/)** [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565.md?page=8) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/hints-for-lucasarts-games/2565.md?page=10)