Gauntlet (NES)/World 3



The cave-like rooms of the caverns are haunted by many of the horrendous fiends from the Unseen. You may find a room in world three with treasure and bombs that you cannot get.

Level 42


Take the right exit to reach room 43, which is necessary to reach room 46, the Clue Room. The left exit will bypass rooms 43 and 44, leading to room 45.

If you go to the right then the locked treasure chest contains a sword potion.

Level 46


Clue Room. Shoot out the tail of the arrow to acquire the clue before touching the flashing panel and exiting.

Level 48
All exits lead to room 49.

Level 51


The exit to the right skips room 52 and leads to room 53. If you don't have the clue yet, you need to take this one.

Many of the potions reduce health.

Level 52
The exit to this room leads to room 55, which skips room 53 and the Clue Room, room 54.

Level 54


Black potions reduce health. You need 1 spare key to get the clue from the locked chest. If you have no keys on entry, you must get the two from the upper right chamber before opening the chest.

Level 56


There is no way to get into the chamber at the upper left full of goodies at all.

Level 57


Be sure to collect the Key in this room if you don't have any. If you do not have at least one key saved when you reach the next treasure room, you CANNOT beat the first clue room in the next world!

Bottom exit leads to 58, TOP exit leads to 60. 58 is the safer path to avoid running out of keys.

Level 58


Provided you have a key when you enter this room (you should have collected one from 57), you can open both locked chests, if you wish, which guarantees you the second key. If you don't have one, you need to open the one on the left to get to the second key. Both have traps in them, which allow you to reach the trap that opens the path to the exits. Again, be sure to hold back at least one key, or you will regret it. Lower right exit leads to 61, which you should definitely take if you entered without a key and picked the rightmost chest. One other exit leads to 62, the others go back to 57.

Level 59


You may safely open the first door, but don't open any more doors or locked chests unless you have spare keys. Use the central transporter to exit to 62 by holding down and left. If you entered with three keys, you can collect all treasure that's not in the locked chests. If you entered with two, or just one, you must leave the four in the locked room without a teleporter alone, but can still collect the ones in the teleporter room. Do not touch the locked chests unless you entered with at least five keys.

Level 60


Do not open any locked chests unless you have at least one spare key beyond the one needed in world 4. Again, if you don't have one entering this room, you will get stuck. Provided you have a key, take the middle exit to 62. The left one returns you to level 57, which will let you go back for a key if you somehow got here without one or opened too many locked chests. Right takes you to 59, which is not safe to enter without a key. If you do have one, there's treasure to be had if you are careful.

Level 61


All exits are to 62, just make sure you keep at least one key. You will need at least 2 trap tiles to reach an exit, but there's enough keys to go around provided you don't waste any on doors not in your way or locked chests. Or you can use supershots from level 58 to shoot open the doors if you still have some, and use keys on the chests.