EXCUSE ME, DO YOU HAVE THE TIME? By Jean Childs
         On Disk 1304 and given free with Issue 61

              Author's Solution for PC version

I - (you have a red jacket (being worn) - north - west - look
under shrub (find saw which you take) - examine ivy - pull ivy -
enter hole - search junk (find pencil which you take) - examine
pencil - wait - take rucksack - look in rucksack (sandwiches
should be kept in rucksack and eat one when told you are hungry) -
put saw in rucksack - take key - unlock door - drop key - wear
rucksack - east (opening the door) - up - east (opening the door).

East (opening the door) - look behind portrait ( find paper
which you take) - read paper (Tomorrow the Gods will smile again.
Tomorrow they'll send the drought away. Look for a man of great
learning, whose need is for today.) - examine fireplace - take
sticks - put sticks and paper in rucksack - west - north (opening
the door) - north (opening the door).

Examine panel - north - examine table - take breadcrumbs - put
breadcrumbs in rucksack - take stool - south - press yellow button
- north - examine shelves - drop stool - climb on stool - take
glass - get off stool - south - press orange button - north -
examine desk - examine monitor (Where Africa meets the heavens,
seek international pride. Record your achievement, which must then
be denied?) - south - press purple button - north - open cabinet -
take knife - sharpen pencil - drop knife - put pencil in rucksack
- examine bath - examine stains - read stains (Oh island in the
sun, read my palm for what it's worth. Look low to find an
adornment, that's worthy for one of high birth.) - south - press
green button - north - examine workbench - Tom, take rope - south
- press black button - north - lie on bed (given clue about Dick)
- look under bed (find camera which you take) - give camera to Tom
- examine wardrobe - enter hole - put yellow disk in slot -
examine screen (first line of clue in bath stains) - south.

You are now in the centre of a forest and while looking around the
9 locations of forest you will come across a native carrying a
stem. Ignore him for now and continuing from the centre of the
forest, go east - east - east - north - examine boat - launch boat
- take paddle - east - southeast - land boat - examine tree
(second line of clue in bath stains) - launch boat - northeast (
being direction written on palm tree) - examine water (third and
fourth lines of clue in bath stains, but you can't get the shell
yet.) - north - northwest - examine hut - Tom, take envelope -
take orange disk - put orange disk in rucksack - west - land boat
- put paddle in boat - east - south - search straw (find bamboo
torch which you take) - north - east - examine sand - read sand
(Behold the dragon- slayer, up high on hallowed ground. His emblem
though not flying, in miniature can be found.) - north - west -
west - west - take sticks - drop sticks - light sticks with glass
- light torch with fire - north - west - south - west - west -
Dick, take stones - push large boulder - enter hole - put orange
disk in slot - examine screen (first and second lines of clue on
paper).

Drop torch - south - south - south - south - east - look behind
statue (find brooch which you take) - put brooch in rucksack -
west - south - east - examine pedestal - take mask - examine
pedestal - take red disk - put mask on pedestal - put red disk in
rucksack - west - south - south - examine bridge - drop all - Tom,
tie rope to me - swing - wait - pull sack - shout - take all -
wear jacket and rucksack - south - west - give sack to man - give
cup to Harry - east - north - north - west - west - enter middle
ring - put red disk in slot - examine screen - south - east -
north (not allowed yet) - ask man about bomb - south - south -
south - south - south - south - west - remove jacket - examine
jacket - reverse jacket - wave jacket - west - west - take blue
disk - put blue disk in rucksack - east - east - east - north -
north - north - east - examine pond - drop breadcrumbs - take
feather - west - west (opening the door) - examine earphones -
tickle neck with feather - take hairpin - drop feather - east -
north - east - south (opening the door) - examine table - examine
drawer - pick lock - drop hairpin - open drawer - take key - south
(opening the door).

Harry, take spade - north - north - west - north - east - unlock
door with key - northeast - drop key - read blackboard (Where you
can buy happiness, in the land of the rising sun. By all means be
my guest, and a long life for someone.) - search desks (find
catapult which you take) - search desks (find tortoise which you
take) - southwest - west - south - east - east - east - Tom, take
trunks - west - examine trees - enter hole - put blue disk in slot
- examine screen (first line of clue on monitor) - south - examine
trees - climb tree - Tom, take picture - down - east - Tom, show
picture to man - take brooch - give brooch to man - open parcel -
take biscuits - north - enter hut - take coin - west - northwest -
southwest (arrive at Uhuru Peak and see flags, second line of clue
on monitor) - examine book - write names in book (third line of
clue on monitor) - take page (fourth line of clue on monitor) -
northeast - northwest - north - northeast - northwest (see yeti
and return to west of pit) - southwest - north - Dick, give me the
stones - throw stones over pit - south - northwest - northeast -
look behind rock (find green disk which you take) - put green disk
in rucksack.

Southeast - southwest - south - examine ice - enter hole - drop
map - put green disk in slot - examine screen (second line of clue
on blackboard) - south - south - south - south - south - examine
sand - Harry, dig sand - take bag, examine bag, take white disk,
drop bag, put white disk in rucksack - north - north - east - east
- south - examine stork - buy stork (first line of clue on
blackboard) - examine card (third line of clue on blackboard) -
north - east - east - give card to guard - give tortoise to Daimio
(fourth line of clue on blackboard) - west - north - north - north
- north - examine priests - ask priests about Dick - south - east
- examine man - take saw - give saw to man - south - west - south
- give coin to coolies - examine column - enter hole - drop coin,
stork, noshi and pouch - put yellow disk in slot - south - east -
east - north - east - south - east - east - east - south - west -
west - launch boat - take paddle - southeast - southeast - Tom,
get shell - west - west - west - land boat - put paddle in boat -
west - west - northwest.

Look behind boulder (find stem which you take) - south - south -
examine trees - enter hole - put orange disk in slot - south -
east - east - south - south - Dick, put drug in cup - Harry, give
cup to guard - south - east (meet priest, third and fourth lines
of clue on paper) - examine pot - give stem to priest - west -
north - north - north - north - north - north - north - north -
examine cactus - enter hole - put red disk in slot - south - west
- west - north - north - give wirecutters to man - give glass to
man - north - west - up - up - up - examine pole (all lines of
clue in sand on island) - Harry, climb pole - down - down - down -
east - take medal - south - west - examine tomb - enter hole - put
white disk in slot - south - give shell to Yon - give codex to Yon
- give medal to Yon - give page to Yon - give ring to Yon - end of
game.










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