If you select Push and click the left side of the trampoline it moves right, if you select Pull and click the left side it moves left.
When clicking on the right side moving left/right this is reversed.
The confusion happens because there aren’t two separate push and pull animations, so the character always pushes, but it’s always the correct direction depending on verb + click area.
Other possible implementations of this puzzle could have worked like this:
- Only one trampoline hotspot; Push and Pull moves left or right depending on which side of the trampoline (center of hotspot) the current actor is standing.
- Only one trampoline hotspot; Push always moves right, Pull always moves left (or vice versa)
- Use two hotspots but naming them differently, e.g. “left side of trampoline”, “right side of trampoline”
This can be done for one or two hotspots: Making a special pull animation to prevent any confusion about push/pull (the most expensive option, but at least only two characters are affected)