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Armed & Delirious Hints
What is this mad race all about?
Since the game varies VERY substantially every time it is played, you may succeed in a few minutes or it may take a half hour. You are never "killed" ... it is only a matter of time and occasionally endurance (and your patience threshold!).
The best thing to do is to Save immediately you enter the room. You may win quickly, but if not you can exit after say ten minutes, reload, and the chances are that with your entirely different "configuration" you'll finish it next time with no trouble. If the very worst comes to the worst, exit the whole game and restart ... since the whole setup is absolutely unpredictable, you may then find that you succeed first time!
OVERALL PLAN:
Granny has to advance along the central path of five squares from the door to the trophy. There are four other (different colored) contestants who jump backwards and forwards along the other four parallel paths, but not along the central one. From time to time, obstacles rise up or sink down blocking Granny's route. If you are lucky, the whole five squares are unobstructed and you can proceed easily to the trophy. If however one or more of the squares is blocked, simply play on until Granny can move forwards.
TASKS TO PERFORM:
NOTE: Not all these tasks are ~always~ essential. Occasionally you may skip something and find that the game goes even better by so doing! Also there may be additional or better ways of solving this than those suggested below!
At the beginning, click (maybe a few times) on the intercom near the mid right side of the screen and/or the judge-creature in his booth near center screen. The judge spouts the following jingle : "Security is our middle name, only with a helmet can you play this game". He may only inform you of this in the middle of the game or possibly not at all. However, in order to win, at some stage it seems that Granny must put on her football helmet or she cannot win (?!) ... even though the minute she does put it on she removes it and flings it into outer space!
When each of the competitors jumps forward from the playing area onto a forecourt square in front, smear his feet with the sun tan lotion from your bra-ventory ... not that this has any noticeable effect upon their subsequent actions! You may only ~have~ to do this to a couple of the players; but if they "get into position" easily by themselves, then grease them all.
(N.B. I once completed the puzzle without using ~any~ sun tan lotion at all!).
HOW TO WIN:
Simply keep clicking more or less indiscriminately on all the contestants and any of the squares which are "receptive". Sooner or later, the path will get freed up, totally or in stages, and Granny can advance to the fifth and last square and take the goblet/trophy.
