My wife has never heard of Kickstarter

[Nor_Treblig]

@Someone

If she have never heard of Kickstarter, she will never be able to solve the puzzle.

It’s possible:

A Thimbleweed Park story, by a "pure" user

Today, a friend of mine has finished Thimbleweed Park. Nothing special about it, except for this friend did not play any Lucas* adventure games before, apart Monkey Island when she was 6 years old (and left it unfinished). She played TWP just because I talked about it many many (^100) times. She is the girl who was with me at Munich, in January 2017, when Ron Gilbert allowed some users to play a public demo: [MunichEvent6] After that great experience, she returned home and wanted to resume…

@gborland

Should I put her out of her misery?

You could allow her to use hints.
Another question: What do the hints actually say at this point?