Preliminary Walkthrough

[Rock]

This is a preliminary walkthrough written before the release of the game and thus highly prone to error and incomplete. I haven't had an opportunity to play the game myself, yet, so please take everything here with a grain of salt. If you want to add any pieces of information I've missed, please feel free to.


[You can switch characters in the top right, your actions are in the bottom left, the inventory is in the bottom right. You can run with double click or by holding the mouse button.]

Give the polaroid film to Agent Ray, then switch to her, insert it into the camera and take a picture of the body. Search the body to find a hotel keycard and take the empty Whiskey bottle. Go to the left, open the gate and proceed upstairs. Pick up the tuna can (useless item), the Atari cartridge, the circus poster and the plastic rings as you go to the right. [Is there a speck of dust? The van might lose a wrench that you need to pick up and give to the pigeons. If that's the case, they should give you their card in return, but I'm not sure whether that's in the release.]

Turn into A Street and enter Nickel News and talk to the woman. Leave and return to main street. Find another speck of dust in front of the electronics store. Enter the diner to the right and talk to Sandy to trigger Ransome's subplot.

Ransome's Subplot

Look at your todo list and put on your clown nose (you might have to obtain it from the clown doll first). Pick up two notes and a card from the cupboard. Grab the poster to reveal a safe. In casual mode you can just open the safe to obtain $1000 in cash. In hard mode you need to find the combination. Leave and talk to your manager. Go further and push the mime. Proceed to your dressing room, use makeup and hair gel. Go to Joe and try to get your jokebook back. He demands interest, so return and pick up the swear jar money to obtain the missing $138. With them return to Joe and obtain the joke book. Having fulfilled all requirements you can now enter the stage and get cursed to finish Ransome's introduction.

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Leave the diner and leave the town to the right triggering a cut scene. Enter the bathroom of the Quickie Pal and use the light switch. Pick up a speck of dust near the door. Enter the Quickie Pal and pick up another speck of dust from the floor in front of the clerk. Leave and head up to the vista. As you keep going to the right the sheriff tells you to get a map. Return to town. Enter the alley behind the diner and pick up a speck of dust. Note that ThimbleCon87 takes place at the hotel that we might be able to attend once we have a map. Go further into the dark (trash can) and get knocked down.

As Agent Rayes walk up to the city. You can make a stop at the cemetary and find Chuck's grave. Afterwards, proceed to where your partner was attacked to find her notebook. Then go back to A street to trigger another cutscene. Pick up a speck of dust in front of the liquor store. Walk down the street. You can enter the post office and talk to the employee, but for now go further to meet the old lady who cursed Ransome.

You will see that Agent Ray is available again. Click on her icon to make her come back to her senses. Walk into the tunnel, pick up a speck of dust and a dime [possibly lost by the bum]. Note that the Quickie Pal store is right above you, then go back to where you woke up. Go to the left and find more specks of dust in front of a gate and on the floor under a red box. Open the red box and call Deborah Ingram under 1550 using the dime we just found (you can look up the number with Agent Reyes in the phone book). Go to the right to be freed by the sheriff.

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Talk to the pigeons, then move on to the right to enter Thimbleweed Park and proceed until you meet the Sheriff. Go into the coroner's office to learn about your forensic analysis tools and the pillow factory fire. Leave and enter the sheriffs office upstairs to talk to him. Leave the government building.

With Agent Ray proceed to the right and pick up a speck of dust fom the street in front of the prestige realtors building (to the left of the van), then talk to the pigeons again who ask for a WC-67 tube. Proceed to the right and turn into B Street at the diner. Pick up another speck of dust in front of the first building, then enter Ricki's Cakes to ask for and obtain a WC-67 Tube. Leave the store. You can look at the phone book to play 160MB of community provided messages. Once you're done proceed to the right after the arcade and talk to the lady of the evening to start Delores' subplot.

Delores' Subplot

Look into your journal to find a checklist, then go outside to check your mailbox. You will get your magazine from George who will tell you that Chuck will not be happy about your plans. Read the magazine and notice the MMucasFlem job offer. Go downstairs and see George at the front door. Talk to him to obtain a letter for Chuck, then proceed to the library. [Most of the books here were contributed by the community.] Remove the out of order sign from the staircase and go upstairs. Fetch the MMucas Programming Primer from the far left shelf (section 3.1) and return to your computer to pass the application test: Room backgrounds are compressed into character sets, the total number of sounds that can be defined for a game is 256, 8 actors can be displayed at a time, functions can take 8 parameters. [In casual mode, Delores will answer these for you.] Pick up the printed job application and notice that the text is blank.

For now, proceed to the very right door and enter the room. Pick up the ink bottle and notice that it's empty (in hard mode, in casual mode it will be full already). Talk to Chuck, but do not give him his letter, yet. He will tell you to mix polycyclic hydrocarbons and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) in order to create ink. Obtain the gas can that is in front of the house and also fetch some wood from the pile while you're there. Go inside, put the log in the fireplace, then go into the kitchen and take some broken bottles of ketchup from the fridge as well as the hot sauce and a can of Poopsie. Before you leave the kitchen get the glass from the left cupboard and fill it with water by using it on the faucet. Remember to turn the faucet off afterwards. Return to the fireplace and use the hot sauce in order to spit fire and ignite the log. Leave the area and return to find that the log has burned up leaving only some black soot, the final ingredient for our ink. To complete this puzzle put the gasoline into the empty ink bottle and then mix in the soot. With the ink return to your office, place the paper back into the printer and fill in the ink, then reprint your application and pick up the envelope. In hard mode we still need a stamp. Luckily, we have Chuck's letter. Return to the kitchen, put the glass of water and Chuck's letter into the microwave and use it to steam off the stamp. Pick up the glass of water again, combine the stamp with the application letter and notice that this procedure also steamed open the letter which means that you can now read it if you want. Return to the mailbox and mail in your application.

Five days later you receive a reply. Go to your room and open the letter (keep using it). Go to your uncle to tell him the news and end this subplot.

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Talk to the pizza guy in front of the diner until you scare him off, then pick up the pizza flyer.
Pick up microfiche from the sheriff's office, put it into the FaceTron and then run it against the picture of the body to get an identity report on the victim.
Willie's watch and violin shop at the entrance to Thimbleweed Park might be a clue for later.

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[Khatie]

Hi there, Rock! If you wouldn't mind, please put [SPOILERS] at the top of your post so people are aware / forewarned! As well, please post the disclaimer that you haven't played the game up to the top of the post.

Thank you so much. :)

[I Killed Max Payne]

???

[Grindlethorpe]

Totally the wrong place for this bud. & what's the point if it's inaccurate and incomplete? Write the whole thing properly and post it somewhere, I don't know, where walkthrough's are found?

[Rock]

Hi Khatie,

sure thing, done.

Best wishes,
Rock

PS:
@Grindlethorpe: Since the game is currently unreleased, I can't post a guide on Steam. Also, a place for walkthroughs is imho not the right place: This is a collection of info already presented with a request for additions - it might turn into a guide, but certainly isn't one. I know that Ron Gilbert presented the game at a lot of places I wasn't able to attend or see, so there most likely is more information out there than I have been able to collect. I also didn't include any blog information - I'm sure there are more aspects in there, e.g. about the hotel. Just to mention one detail that I missed: The coin has to be picked up from the street and thrown into the sewer - you don't just find it down there.

[Khatie]

Thank you very much, @Rock! :)

[Shinjica]

anyone know how to obtain the map?

[mikebarronsucks]

I'm stuck. I get Rays out of the sewer. I can't find the pizza guy or the microfiche. Just playing on casual mode. Anyone else having issues?

[Rock]

Pickup bottle from street, return it at Quickie Pal to get 5 cents, go to newspaper, look at radio scanner, have someone call in whatever the reporter mentions from the police station. When she's gone, pick up the map, place it on the copier, put in the 5 cents you got for the bottle, pickup your copy of the map and return the original.

This preliminary walkthrough is obsolete now that the final game is released. [And btw.: I own the original, but bought it on GOG - that's why I'm not listed as owning the game on Steam.]

[Mr redio]

where is quickie pal? sry but i am frustated :(

[Waylander]

Originally posted by MOTHER RUSSIA:

where is quickie pal? sry but i am frustated :(

As i mentioned elsewhere main street and head right until you leave the screen

[Mr redio]

Originally posted by Waylander:

Originally posted by MOTHER RUSSIA:

where is quickie pal? sry but i am frustated :(

As i mentioned elsewhere main street and head right until you leave the screen

Omfg i were so dumb! THX :)

[plante.benoit]

I'm stuck
The lawyer in the hotel Thimblecon does not want to help Dolores. How can I prove he was paid?

[Rock]

Go to Chuck's office, look at book, there should be a note in there when you open it. Take it to the lawyer, he'll say that ain't be enough, so take it to the bank and you should be fine.

[plante.benoit]

Thanks! didn't think about open

[HowlingWolf86]

Originally posted by plante.benoit:

I'm stuck
The lawyer in the hotel Thimblecon does not want to help Dolores. How can I prove he was paid?

How to get to Thimblecon?..