With the counterweights in place, you can now safely cross the bridge and enter the hut on the hill. Inside you can find that Dr. Brain's flair for strange decorations knows no bounds. Click on the screen of the computer to start the mask match puzzle
Match Three Puzzle[edit]
For this puzzle, you are asked to find 5 sets of 3 matching shapes. For Novice, Standard, and Expert difficulties, you must sort through various shapes, hieroglyphics, and masks respectively. Some may jump out at you, especially on Novice difficulty, but otherwise, many of the objects tend to look similar. To keep from getting lost, take a systematic approach. Start at one of the corners and go through the shapes one by one until you have either found two exact matches or have examined all the shapes.
For the Standard and Expert difficulties, to tell the shapes apart, break each one up into pieces. When dealing with the masks, look at the hair, the eyes, and the mouth individually. For instance, look at the figure at the top right of the example given and notice that its hair is wavy and yellow. If you look at this feature alone, over half of the remaining masks are eliminated. Next, notice that it has a bone through its nose and its eyes are big and green. Go through the figures with wavy yellow hair and look for something that matches. As you go through them, you'll notice that there are no matches, so you can eliminate this mask as a possibility.
When you've correctly matched three figures, rectangles of the same color will form around them. This separates them from the rest, meaning that there will be three less figures that you have to examine. So the puzzle gets a little easier with each set you find.
If you manage to find all 5 sets of 3 figures, you will be awarded with a small gold key. Grab the key from the totem pole and use it on the bookshelf in the back of the room to open the bookshelf puzzle.
Bookshelf Puzzle[edit]
It seems as though someone has misplaced all of Dr. Brain's books. Either the maid couldn't speak English or she just hadn't recently brushed up on her Chinese Gods. Either way, it's up to you to get them straight. Mouse over the books with letters on them to see what their subject is. Then move each subject to it's proper category, labeled on the shelf. Listed below are the possible subjects and their corresponding categories:
Novice[edit]
Animals
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Amphibians | Bullfrog; Caecilians; Frog; Mudpuppy; Newt; Narrowmouth Toad; Salamander; Spadefoot Toad; Spotted Salamander; Spring Peeper; Tailed Frog; Tree Frog; Toad; | Birds | Crow; Eagle; Duck; Emu; Jay; Flamingo; Goose; Macaw; Ostrich; Raven; Robin; Owl; Vulture; |
| Fish | Bass; Carp; Catfish; Eel; Halibut; Marlin; Perch; Pike; Salmon; Seahorse; Trout; Tuna; Turbot; | Insects | Ant; Aphid; Bee; Butterfly; Cicada; Cricket; Earwig; Flea; Katydid; Louse; Wasp; Silverfish; Termite; |
| Mammals | Armadillo; Bat; Cow; Camel; Dog; Kangaroo*; Monkey; Rabbit; Rat; Rhinoceros; Seal; Tiger; Whale; | Reptiles | Alligator; Caiman; Chameleon; Crocodile; Gecko; Gila Monster; Iguana; Lizard; Snake; Thorn Devil; Tortoise; Tuataras; Turtle; |
- yes, kangaroos are marsupials, but marsupials are a subclass of mammals.
Body Systems
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Circulatory | Arteries; Arterioles; Blood; Capillaries; Heart; Plasma; Platelets; Veins; Venules; | Digestive | Colon; Esophagus; Gall Bladder; Intestine; Liver; Mouth; Pancreas; Salivary Glands; Stomach; |
| Nervous system | Axon; Brain; Dendrites; Effectors; Nerves; Neurons; Receptors; Spinal Cord; Synapse; | Respiratory | Alveoli; Bronchi; Chest Wall; Cilia; Diaphragm; Larynx; Lungs; Pharynx; Trachea; |
| Skeletal | Carpal; Femur; Fibula; Phalanges; Pubis; Sacrum; Tarsal; Tibia; Ulna |
Gods
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aztec | Huitzilopochtli; Meztli; Michtlantecutli; Tezcatlipoca; Tlaloc; Tlazolteotl; Tonacatecutli; Tonacacihuatl; Tzinteotl; Quetzalcoatl | Celtic | Branwen; Brigit; Dagda; Danu; Goibniu; Lug; Morrigan; Manannan; Macha; Taranis; |
| Chinese | Ch'ang-o; Huang-ti; Lung-wang; Sheng-mu; Shen-nung; T'ien Hou; Wen-ch'ang; Yen-wang; Yu-huang; | Egyptian | Amon-Re; Anubis; Hathor; Horus; Isis; Mont; Osiris; Ptah; Thoth; |
| Greek | Aphrodite; Apollo; Athena; Ares; Artemis; Demeter; Hera; Persephone; Poseidon; Prometheus; Zeus | Indian | Indra; Kama; Krishna; Lakshmi; Rudra; Parvati; Soma; Surya; Varuna; Yama; |
| Mayan | Chac; Humahau; Hun-Ahpu; Hurakan; Itzamna; Ixazaluoh; Kukulcan | Norse | Aegir; Balder; Frey; Frigg; Hel; Loki; Odin; Thor; Volund; |
| Roman | Ceres; Cupid; Diana; Juno; Jupiter; Mars; Mercury; Minerva; Neptune; Pluto; Vulcan | Sumerian | Anu; Babbar; Enlil; Enki; Ereshkigal; Ishtar; Innini; Nabu; Nanna; Shamash |
| West African | Ananse; Asase Yaa; Avlekete; Lisa; Nyame; Orunmila; Olokun; Tano; Xevioso; |
Musical Instruments
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Brass | Bugle; Cornet; French Horn; Trombone; Trumpet; Tuba | Percussion | Bells; Drums; Gongs; Maracas; Timpani; Xylophone; |
| String | Cello; Guitar; Harp; Lute; Viola; Violin; | Woodwind | Bassoon; Clarinet; English Horn; Flute; Oboe; Piccolo; Saxophone; |
Standard[edit]
Geography
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Algeria; Angola; Botswana; Egypt; Ethiopia; Chad; Ghana; Ivory Coast; Libya; Morocco; Niger; Nigeria; South Africa; Sudan; Tunisia; Uganda; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Zaire[1]; | Asia | Afghanistan; Cambodia; China; India; Iran; Israel; Iraq; Japan; Laos; Lebanon; Malaysia; Mongolia; North Korea; Nepal; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Turkey; Vietnam; Burma[2]; |
| Europe | Austria; Bulgaria; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Czechoslovakia[3]; Yugoslavia[4]; | North America | Belize; Canada; Costa Rica; Cuba; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; United States of America; |
| South America | Argentina; Brazil; Bolivia; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Paraguay; Peru; Uruguay; Venezuela; | ||
| Deserts | Arabian; Atacama; Death Valley; Gobi; Great Basin; Kalahari; Kara Kum; Kyzyl Kum; Mojave; Negev; Sahara; Sahel; Takli makan; Thar; | Lakes | Albert; Aral Sea; Baikal; Balkhash; Bangweulu; Caspian Sea; Chad; Erie; Geneva; Huron; Michigan; Mead; Nyasa; Ontario; Superior; Tahoe; Tanganyika; Titicaca; Victoria; |
| Mountains | Andes; Everest; Etna; Fuji; Jungfrau; Kilimanjaro; McKinley; Matterhorn; Mauna Kea; Mauna Loa; Olympus; Popocatepet; Rainier; Saint Helens; Shasta; Vesuvius; Whitney; | Rivers | Amazon; Congo; Danube; Ganges; Hudson; Jordan; Mississippi; Niger; Nile; Potomac; Rhine; Rio Grande; St. Lawrence; Seine; Thames; Volga; Yangtze; Zambezi |
Composers
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Berlin | Alexander's Ragtime Band; All Alone; Always; Blue Skies; Easter Parade; God Bless America; White Christmas; | George M. Cohan | Give My Regards to Broadway; I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy; Harrigan; Mary's a Grand Old Name; Over There; You're a Grand Old Flag; |
| Gershwin: Swanee | Embraceable You; I Got Rhythm; Love Walked In; Soon; S Wonderful | Jerome Kern | All the Things You Are; Bill; Make Believe; Ol' Man River; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
| Cole Porter | Anything Goes; Begin the Beguine; I've Got You Under My Skin; Night and Day; You're the Top; | Rodgers | Falling in Love With Love; Hello, Young Lovers; People Will Say We're in Love; Some Enchanted Evening; The Lady Is a Tramp; |
| Schubert | Ave Maria; Death and the Maiden; Serenade; The Trout; Who Is Sylvia? | Paul Simon | Bridge Over Troubled Water; Homeward Bound; Loves Me Like a Rock; Mrs. Robinson; The Sounds of Silence; |
Astronomy
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constellations | Andromeda; Aquarius; Cassiopeia; Cetus; Cepheus; Delphinus; Hercules; Orion; Pegasus; Perseus; Ursa Major; | Moons | Callisto; Charon; Deimos; Europa; Ganymede; Io; Nereid; Oberon; Phobos; Titan; Triton; |
| Planets (in order from the sun) | Mercury; Venus; Earth; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Pluto | Space Shuttles | Apollo; Galileo; Giotto; Helios; Luna; Mariner; Pioneer; Ranger; Venera; Voyager; |
| Stars | Alpha Centauri; Altair; Arcturus; Betelgeuse; Capella; Polaris; Pollux; Sirius; Sun; Vega; |
Painters
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dali | Hallucinogenous Bullfighter; Fifty Abstract Paintings in Which One Sees...; The Three Sphinxes of Bikini; The Persistence of Memory | Kandinsky | Colorful Ensemble; Gorge Improvisation; Storeys; White Stroke; |
| O'Keefe | Black Iris II; Jack in the Pulpit #2; Petunia and Coleus; Red Poppy No. VI; | Picasso | Girl Before a Mirror; The Dream (1932); Three Musicians; Woman's Head with Self Portrait; |
| Jackson Pollock | Composition with Pouring II; Convergence #10; Overall Composition; The Moon Woman Cuts the Circle | Van Gogh | Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries; Road with Cypress and Stars; Sunflowers; The Night Cafe; Van Gogh's self portrait |
Expert[edit]
Authors
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Life On The Mississippi; Prince and the Pauper; | William Faulkner | A Fable; A Rose for Emily; Absalom, Absalom!; Go Down, Moses; Requiem for a Nun; The Reivers; The Sound and the Fury; The Unvanquished; |
| Leon Uris | Battle Cry; Exodus; Mila 18; The Angry Hills; The Haj; Topaz; Trinity; QB VII; | Jules Verne | Around the world in 80 days; Five Weeks in a Balloon; From the Earth to the Moon; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; |
| R.L. Stevenson | David Balbour; Kidnapped; New Arabian Nights; The Master of Ballantrae; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; | John Steinbeck | Cannery Row; East of Eden; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice And Men; Sweet Thursday; The Grapes Of Wrath; The Winter Of Our Discontent; Tortilla Flat; Travels With Charley; |
| Judy Blume | Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great; Superfudge; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Then Again, Maybe I Won't; | Jane Austen | Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; |
| Dr Seuss | Green Eggs and Ham; Hop on Pop; Horton Hears a Who; How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Cat in the Hat; The Lorax; The Sneetches; You're Only Old Once; | Edgar Allen Poe | Ligeia; Morella; Shadow; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Gold-Bug; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Purloined Letter; The Tell-Tale Heart; |
| James Michener | Centennial; Chesapeake; Hawaii; Poland; Sayonara; Tales of the South Pacific; Texas; The Covenant; The Source; | Rudyard Kipling: | Captain Courageous; Just So Stories; Kim, Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories; The Jungle Book; |
| Stephen King | Carrie; Christine; Cujo; Pet Sematary; The Dead Zone; The Firestarter; The Stand; The Tommyknockers; | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms; Death in the Afternoon; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and other stories; The Sun Also Rises; |
| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; The Old Curiosity Shop; | Beverly Cleary | Beezus and Ramona; Dear Mr. Henshaw; Henry Huggins; The Mouse and the Motorcycle; Runaway Ralph; |
| Pearl Buck | A Bridge for Passing; A House Divided; Dragon Seed; East Wind: West Wind; Imperial Woman; My Several Worlds; The Good Earth; The Living Reed; | Louisa May Alcott | An Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Jo's Boys; Little Men; Little Women; |
Habitats
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Temperate Forest | Beaver; Chipmunk; Echidna; Flying Squirrel; Garter Snake; Koala; Moose; Muskrat; Otter; Opossum; Porcupine; Raccoon; Skunk; Snapping Turtle; White-tailed Deer; Wild Boar; Wood Frog; Woodchuck; | Tropical Forest | Axis Deer; Black Howler Monkey; Bongo; Chevrotain; Coati; Gibbon; Iguana; Jaguar; Leopard; Ocelot; Orangutan; Spider Monkey; Tree Boa Constrictor; Two-toed Sloth; Tapir; |
| Polar Region | Arctic Hare; Caribou; Collared Lemming; Emperor Penguin; Ermine; Musk Ox; Polar Bear; Walrus; | Ocean | Copepod; Jellyfish; Limpet; Manatee; Octopus; Saltwater Crocodile; Shark; Starfish; Whale; |
| High Mountains | Bighorn Sheep; Chinchilla; Giant Panda; Himalayan Ibex; Marco Polo Sheep; Snow Leopard; Vicuna; Yak; | Grassland | Aardvark; Blackbuck; Elephant; Giraffe; Gnu; Hippopotamus; Kangaroo; Kudu; Ostrich; Prairie Dog; Pronghorn; Zebra; |
| Desert | Bobcat; Cacomistle; Camel; Chuckwalla; Coyote; Dingo; Dromedary; Gila Monster; Kangaroo Rat; Kit Fox; Muledeer; Pocket Mouse; Saiga; Scorpion; Sidewinder; |
Geography
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Canary Islands; Cape of Good Hope; Congo River; Great Rift Valley; Mt. Kilimanjaro; Nile River; Sahara Desert; Suez Canal; Victoria Falls; | Antarctica | Berkner Island; Filchner Ice Shelf; Horlick Mountains; Mertz Glacier; Prydz Bay; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Whitmore Mountains; |
| Asia | Altai Mountains; Euphratesl Taklimakan Desert; Gobi Desert; Jordan; Mt Everest; Pamir Knot; Tigris; | Australia | Botany Bay; Coral Sea; Darling River; Great Barrier Reef; Great Victoria Desert; Lake Eyre; Lake Torrens; Mount Kosciusko; Murray River |
| Europe | Aegean Sea; Alps; Baltic Sea; Bay of Biscay; Danube; Dardanelles; English Channel; Rhine; Volga; | North America | Death Valley; Everglades; Grand Canyon National Park; Great Lakes; Great Salt Lake; Klondike; Mississippi River; Niagara Falls; Painted Desert; Rio Grande; Rocky Mountains; Yosemite National Park; Yukon River |
| South America | Amazon River; Andes Mountains; Angel Falls; Atacama Desert; Cape Horn; Galapagos Islands;
Lake Maracaibo; Lake Titicaca; Tropical Rain Forest; |
Playwrights
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town;The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Angel That Troubled the Waters; The Long Christmas Dinner; The Matchmaker | Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Rose Tattoo; Camino Real; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Night of the Iguana |
| JB Shaw | Pygmalion; Candida; The Devil's Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra; Man and Superman; Major Barbara; Androcles and the Lion; Heartbreak House; The Doctor's Dilemma | Shakespeare | King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Anthony and Cleopatra; All's Well That Ends Well; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet |
| Moliere | The Would-Be Gentleman; The School for Wives; Tartuffe, or The Imposter; Don Juan; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The Learned Ladies | Arthur Miller | The Price; The Crucible; After the Fall; Incident at Vichy; Death Of A Salesman; A View from the Bridge; All My Sons |
| Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts; Brand; Peer Gynt; An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; A Doll's House | Chechov | The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; Ivanov |
| Edward Albee | A Delicate Balance; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Tiny Alice; All Over; Seascape; The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The American Dream | Neil Simon | Come Blow Your Horn; Barefoot in the Park; The Odd Couple; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Chapter Two; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Biloxi Blues; Plaza Suite; The Good-bye Girl |
Poems
| Category | Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Walt Whitman | I Celebrate; O Captain! My Captain!; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking;A Noiseless Patient Spider; Earth, My Likeness; Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?; Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone; Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes; After the Dazzle of Day; Song of the Open Road | Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; A Lover's Complaint |
| Edgar Allen Poe | The Raven, Israfel; Eldorado; The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour; Annabel Lee;To My Mother; The City in the Sea; To One in Paradise; The Haunted Place | Ogden Nash | Oh, Stop Being Thankful All Over the Place; The Terrible People; And Three Hundred and Sixty-Six in Leap Year; Oh, Please Don't Get Up!; A Caution to Everybody; Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man; Reflections on Ice-Breaking |
| Emily Dickenson | The Soul Selects Her Own Society; My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close; Because I Could Not Stop for Death; After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes; A Shady Friend for Torrid Days; I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died; I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed; I Took My Power in My Hand; The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man; Step Lightly on This Narrow Spot | EE Cummings | All in Green Went My Love Riding; Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand; No Man, if Men Are Gods; What if a Much of a Which of a Wind; My Sweet Old Etcetera; Always Before Your Voice My Soul; Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind |
| Stephen Crane | I Stood Upon a High Place; I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon; The Wayfarer; A Youth in Apparel That Glittered; A Learned Man; A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky; There Was a Man With a Tongue of Wood | WH Auden | The Labyrinth; Perhaps; Lakes; Woods; The Trial; Under Sirius; In Praise of Limestone; The Unknown Citizen; The Shield of Achilles |
| Longfellow | The Cross of Snow; Evangeline; Tales of a Wayside Inn; The Courtship of Miles Standish; The Song of Hiawatha | Robert Frost | Fire and Ice; Acquainted with the Night; The Hill Wife (The Impulse); To Earthward; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations; The Witch of Coos; The Silken Tent |
Counterweight Puzzle[edit]
As the last book is set into place, the book's covers disappear and the bookshelf slides aside to reveal the secret back room. Upon stepping inside, you find that among the eclectic assortment of interactive decorations is an elevator and a drinking fountain. It looks like Dr. Brain's giving you a refreshment break! Let's see here, what are the choices? Water, alcohol? and... mercury? What?! Is Dr. Brain trying to poison you? No, of course not, it's just his counterweight puzzle. Slip on your gloves and fume mask and jump right in.
| ~ | Water | Mercury | Alcohol |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cup x1 | 0 lb, 8 oz | 7 lb, 1 oz | 0 lb, 6 oz |
| Cup x2 | 1 lb, 0 oz | 14 lb, 2 oz | 0 lb, 12 oz |
| Quart x1 | 2 lb, 0 oz | 28 lb, 4 oz | 1 lb, 8 oz |
| Quart x2 | 4 lb, 0 oz | 56 lb, 8 oz | 3 lb, 0 oz |
| Gallon | 8 lb, 0 oz | 113 lb, 0 oz | 6 lb, 0 oz |
The object of this game is to pour exactly enough liquid to equal the weights at the bottom using only the measurements and liquids given. The red number next to the liquid's symbol shows how many dispenses this liquid has. It doesn't matter if the amount of liquid dispensed is an ounce or a gallon, it will only distribute liquid this many times. If too much is weight is added to any one of the three compartments, the whole thing drains and you must start over with a different set of numbers. With only a limited amount of liquid available, the challenge here is to make sure that you make the most efficient use of what you are given.
On Novice and Standard levels, each of the weights will correspond to one of the liquids, although not necessarily the one it is under. What this means is that only one liquid will be used per weight. More often than not, the heaviest weight will correspond to mercury, the second heaviest to water, and the lightest to alcohol. In these cases, once you have identified which liquid goes with which weight, add the largest container of that liquid that you can without going over. When you can't add any more of that size, start adding the next size down until the numbers magically get to 0 pounds and 0 ounces.
The Expert difficulty of this puzzle is an entirely different game. First of all, each of the weights at the bottom will need to be reached using more than one liquid. Additionally, if too much weight is put onto one side of the counterweight, the thing will tilt and spill over. If this occurs, the game will restart with new numbers. This means that you can't just focus on one weight at a time.
The first thing to look for are the weights that require mercury. These are fairly obvious, as the mercury is ridiculously heavy. A quart of mercury weighs in at 28 pounds, 4 ounces and a gallon weighs a whopping 113 pounds! That's slightly heavier than the average couch. Anyway, you will probably never need to use the gallon of mercury. If a weight is 30 pounds or more, add quarts of mercury until it drops under 28 pounds. Remember that if you add too much weight to the side of the counterweight, it is prone to spilling. Thankfully, these weights usually come in pairs on the left and right side. See the picture above for an example of this. If this is the case, you will have to go back and forth adding to the left and right to keep the counterweight from tipping over. Once all weights are below 28 pounds, there is likely little mercury left. To determine which weights need cups of mercury, check the ounces. Ignoring the pounds, you want the ounces to be even. Any weight that has an odd number of ounces will require at least one cup of mercury. Once this is achieved, if any of the weights are over 14 pounds and you have at least 2 portions of mercury left, go ahead and add 2 cups of mercury to that weight. In the example shown, notice the weight on the left. The ounces read "6", which is even, but there is 16 pounds left. With two cups of mercury, the weight drops to 2 lbs, 4 oz.
When the mercury has run out, all you have to worry about are the water and alcohol dispensers. Look at the chart above that lists the weights of each volume of each substance and take notice of the ounce possibilities of water. Any give volume of water will add 0 or 8 ounces. This means that unless the weight left has either 8oz or 0oz, water alone will not be able to get it to 0 exactly. Therefore, any weight that does not have 0 or 8 for the ounces must be given cups of alcohol until it does.
There are multiple solutions to this puzzle, and there may be some liquid left when all of the weights reach zero. Once all of the ounces read 8 or 0, there are a number of different paths possible to the solution. At this point, you are on your own. There are several general rules of thumb that can help you, such as if the pounds is odd and the ounces is "8", add a quart of alcohol to get an even number for the pounds and 0 for the ounces.
Elevator Puzzle[edit]
Now that the counterweight is set, the elevator should be ready to go, right? Nope. The hut's elevator seems to still be broken. To get the elevator running, the correct gear ratio must be found so the mouse in the hamster wheel doesn't get overwhelmed. If the ratio is too large, the elevator will plummet to the bottom. If the ratio is too small, the elevator will hurtle into the ceiling. Though this puzzle involves a little bit of math, it is one of the easiest puzzles to solve, even on Expert difficulty.
The object of this puzzle is to find the gear on top and the gear on bottom that are in the correct ratio, that is the gear on top multiplied by the correct number will equal the one on bottom. The first step is to find the ratio, or the number that the top one will be multiplied by to reach the bottom one. On both Novice and Standard difficulties, this is done by dividing the weight of the counterweight (on the right) by the weight of the elevator (on the left). In the example shown, this would be 2290 divided by 458, which is an even 5. This is the ratio. On Expert difficulty, subtract the weight of the counterweight by the weight of the elevator and divide the difference by 25 to get the ratio.
Once you have the ratio, multiply each of the numbers on the top by this number. If the product of the ratio and the top gear is the same as any of the ones on the bottom, you have found the two gears. If the product is not on the bottom, try another gear. In the end, it all comes down to trial and error. In the example shown, we have found that the ratio is 5. If 13 is the top gear, then the bottom gear would need to be 13*5, or 65. 65 doesn't appear in the bottom, so we check the next top gear, 15. If the top gear is 15, then the bottom gear would need to be 15*5, or 75. This number does appear on the bottom, so the correct two gears to use are 15 and 75.
When you have found the two gears that are in the correct ratio, click the red arrow in the center to test the elevator. If all goes well, the elevator will run smoothly down the shaft and grant you access to Dr. Brain's underground laboratory.