Get quick and convenient access to just the hints you need for Discworld, without staying on our website. Just download a free trial
version of our UHS Reader software and
a copy of these hints. You will get the
same gradual hints you see here -- unlike ordinary cheats or a
walkthrough that can spoil your game.
You can also buy the full version of the UHS Reader
for Windows or macOS. For just $14.95, you get full access to hints for
hundreds of games and 1 year of free updates. You can also search, decode, or print an entire
game's worth of hints at once.
Ask the Author
If you have questions about a puzzle that aren't answered
anywhere in these hints,
you may contact the author.
Discworld Hints
Where do I get a metal pan?
1 of 21: Try looking around Unseen University.
2 of 21: The cook has one.
3 of 21: Talk to him, and you might be able to get a good idea of how to get it from him.
4 of 21: He doesn't like magic.
5 of 21: Because too many of the sorcerers around here use it to mess around with him.
6 of 21: Even though you don't know much magic, you can still make his life difficult.
7 of 21: Don't you wonder where that window in the back of the university goes to?
8 of 21: It leads up to the top of the kitchen.
9 of 21: All you need to do is find a way of getting up there.
10 of 21: Look around for a ladder.
11 of 21: There's one on the rooftops of the alley.
12 of 21: Just stand on the square in the alley (the one that glows when you step on it), and you'll be taken up to the roof. Then click on the ladder to take it.
13 of 21: Remember that the cook bragged about how he never lost a pancake?
14 of 21: Well, make him lose one.
15 of 21: Try catching it.
16 of 21: But you can't catch it with your hands.
17 of 21: There should be a net around that you can take.
18 of 21: Look in the psychotrickerist's office.
19 of 21: You can take it as soon as the troll changes seats (so that he's no longer sitting in front of the net). I don't know exactly what causes him to move, but if you visit the office through the course of the game, you should be able to get it.
20 of 21: All you need to do now is use the ladder to climb up to through the window, and take the net with you in your own inventory. Then use it on the pancake while one is in the air, and you should be able to catch it.
21 of 21: Now, just go down to the kitchen through the front door and take the pan.
