The 11th Hour (Part 1)

     Walkthrough and words of wisdom for The 11th Hour:
                The Sequel To The 7th Guest

                 Another epic by Mongoose.

Before I give my solution to this game, a few thoughts. The
graphics, acting and atmosphere are excellent, but some of the
clues and puzzles do not make sense, I will explain this during
the walkthrough. There are two types of puzzle, the first of these
you get from your notebook, and mainly consist of anagrams, the
second type are games against the computer or logic tests, some
of which can get very boring, and after trying some of them over
and over again, I found that they were impossible and had to
restart that particular puzzle, all of which rather spoilt the
flow of the game.  During the game keep checking your gamebook,
for the updates on the map, and the new clues, you can also watch
the video clips again, if you wish.  The help on the gamebook will

also play the logic games for you if you get REALLY bored or
completely stuck.

DISC ONE:

Clock strikes 7pm.

1st Gamebook puzzle. Winter Coat Worn for a Mixer.

After the introduction you start in the Foyer.  Go to the right
and into the Library.  Face the fireplace, there is a bottle on
the mantelpiece. It's tonic water and as this is an anagram of
winter coat we have our first solution.  So grab the bottle of
tonic water.  You get a short video sequence.  If you look around
you will get the brain icon showing when you move your pointer
over the bookshelf.  This means that you have a logic puzzle to
solve, click on the bookshelf and you will see eight books and two
empty spaces.  The object is to put all the green books on the
left, and all the red books on the right.  You can only move pairs
of books and it has to be done in four moves. So looking at the
books, they are shown below as A - H, I and J are the starting
empty spaces:


   A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J


Click on the books between B & C (they'll move to slots I & J on
the right) Then click on the books between E & F (they'll move to
the free B & C slot) Then click on the books between H & I, to
move those to the now open E & F. Lastly click on books A & B to
move them to slots H & I.  Puzzle solved.

2nd Gamebook puzzle. Rolling rock, bottle cap.

Look at the map in the Gamebook, Dutton's room has opened. Go
upstairs to his room, as to the puzzle, rock is an anagram of
cork, so what we need is a cork. (Sue would not let me have the
one from her gin bottle). Look down to the left of the
television, on the floor is a booze bottle laying on its side,
with a cork in it, but before you can grab the cork you must do
the puzzle in this room.  The puzzle in this room is on a cash
register, the till is hidden by the right hand bed-post as you
enter the room, you need to enter amounts into the till by pushing
down on the keys, so that the register displays the same amount on
both sides.  The amount needed in each half is 81 cents. The keys
of the register are like this:


            5    5    1    25   5    5    10   10

            5    25   10   25   10   10   1    10


Press the left hand five keys on the top row, and then the left
three keys on the bottom row. Puzzle solved.  There are other
solutions but you can find them yourselves.  Now that we have got
the cork, checking the map shows that the door to the laboratory
has opened, and we get another video clip.

3rd Gamebook puzzle.  Artsy, excited lecher.

Artsy is an anagram of satyr. So if that's what they want, let's
go.  (Hoped Sue would have a least a couple in her phone book, but
she would not tell me).  Next puzzle, go down to the Foyer and if
you look at the table to the left of the staircase you'll see
that there is a piece of chessboard on it. To solve this puzzle
you must reverse the positions of the knights, while keeping all
four pieces on the board.

The board is set up like this:

           D

           C    G    I    J

           B    F    H

           A    E

Then, follow this move sequence: Knight at D to I, then to E, then
to C, then to H.
 Knight at F to D,  then to I,  then to E,  then to C.
 Knight at J to F,  then to D,  then to I,  then to E.
 Knight at B to I,  then to D,  then to F,  then to J.
 Knight at E to I,  then to D,  then to F.
 Knight at C to E,  then to I,  then to D.
 Knight at H to C,  then to E,  then to I,  then to B.
 Knight at D to I,  then to E,  then to C.
 Knight at F to D,  then to I,  then to E.
 Knight at B to I,  then to D,  then to F.
 Knight at E to I,  then to D.
 Knight at C to E,  then to I,  then to B.
Puzzle solved. This opens the gallery.
There must be an easier way to do this one but I could not find it.

Now to find the satyr, without Sue's help. Look at the grandfather
clock to the left and behind the table with the chessboard. Click
on the bottom section of the clock.  It's a secret passage to the
Portrait Gallery.  Wander around until you find a painting with a
fallen statue (a body torso) under it.  Look at the painting above
the torso, a picture of Sue xxxxxxxxxx with a satyr. This might be
an 18 or over game but my solution is staying clean. Well nearly,
but we get to Shebo in the bath later.  Click on the satyr for
another video session.

4th gamebook puzzle. A Heart Attack Could Put You In The Ground.

Heart is an anagram of earth, and ground means earth too.  There's
a globe in the Library. Go through the small green painting to the
left of JR, this brings you back to the foyer. Go into the Library
and touch the globe. Time for another animation and video bit.

5th Gamebook puzzle. Battleground.

Battle is an anagram for tablet. The tablet you want is in the
laboratory. This might be easy to write but it took ages to find
out. (Did not get the ground bit but could be you grind up tablets
with a mortar and pestle in a Lab?)



Return to Dutton's room, and click on the closet door. This is
over on the left hand side, at the back as you enter the room and
will lead you to the Chapel, go through the open door into the
Laboratory.  Look on the top of the cabinet, to the left of the
green bottle, and here we go again, another puzzle, the idea here
is for you to get the mouse to go into the orange hole, that's the
one on the right of your screen.  I did not find a set way of
doing this puzzle because Stauf makes different moves each time.
Now is a good time to bring up Sam; (Ah, feel much better now,
wondered why I've been feeling so rotten). She is the lady that
speaks through your gamebook when you ask for help, if you find
any of the puzzles totally frustrating then ask for help, some of
the puzzles Sam will completely do for you and in others she will
just make one move on your behalf. Note I have completed all the
puzzles so far (James stop laughing) but there is one coming up
that I cheated on, try to guess which one as you continue through
this and I will own up at the end.

There is a large green jar/bottle beside the puzzle, and in front
of this you will see a white tablet with a sort of cross on, click
on the tablet and buy some popcorn and watch the show.

6th Gamebook puzzle. Bars deter Cuckoo bird.

Bars deter is an anagram of redbreast.  A robin.  Go through the
open doorway with bars on the left, this leads to the chapel, go
into the confession booth with the closed door.  A passage will
then take you back to Dutton's room, go back down to the foyer,
and opposite the clock you will find a bird painting.  No! not a
bird painting ... a painting of some birds in a tree.  Click
on the bird in the lower right corner ... it's a robin, and
you'll get a sequence with a tentacle ... and see Sam for the
first time, damn, damn, damn. (just adding to the plot).

7th Gamebook puzzle. Modern art flourishes under the sun.

Sounds like a painting, so back to the portrait gallery. There is
a modern painting resting on the floor in the gallery under the
painting of a girl in a dress, standing next to a giant (man
eating, must be man eating or the girl would be history by now)
sunflower.  So head through the clock (how fortunate, its just
behind you ) and click on the modern style painting. This is
another logic type game, if logic is the right name for these
puzzles. The object of this one is to choose the last possible
space, and you cannot choose a space that is adjacent to a
previously chosen space. When you choose a space, all the spaces
touching it light up, and when Stauf chooses one, all the places
around it grey out.  As with all these puzzles there is no set way
of playing, but I found that if your first choice is the long thin
shape running west to east, (shaped like a Z on its side and
coloured red) through the middle of the painting, you are in with
a good chance.

After you solve this puzzle, you get a replay of the video pieces
you've seen so far, with some missing sections thrown in.  Then
the clock chimes eight.


8th Gamebook puzzle. SkedAddled.

Sked--addled, another anagram, this answer is desk. So you need a
desk.  No problem. The desk is in the Library.  Go and click on
the desk in the Library and you get some silly animation.

@~Back next issue with the next part of this solution.












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