Key & Compass presents:
Bugged
by Anssi Räisänen

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters
  • Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Startroom

Note that this walkthrough contains many extraneous and unnecessary actions, to get a fuller experience of the game.

Also note that since this game was written in ALAN, you can only enter one command at a time. You can't separate or end your commands with periods in ALAN games.

> info. x me. i. x door. open door. knock on door.

> x window. n. x table. x dent. push dent.

> x drawer. x key. x apple. x flute.

> take key. take apple. take flute. (You can't take any of them!)

> take drawer. stand on table.

> take table. take door. s.

In what may be a bug within an intentionally buggy game, it's possible to empty the opened table into yourself:

> empty table into me. (You now have the key, apple, and flute!)

Second Room

> x torches. x chasm. x ladder. take ladder. (Can't take the ladder!)

> u. d. s. jump over chasm.

You can put anything you're carrying across the chasm! The key can span the chasm! However, only the door actually leaves your inventory.

> put door across chasm. s.

Third Room

> x suit. take suit. wear suit.

> x door. take door. (worth a try, eh?)

> x chesstable. x chessboard. x pieces. play chess. take chesstable.

> x levers.

> push fourth. push third. push second. push fifth. push first.

> s.

Fourth Room

> x door. open door. take door. x dragon. take dragon. kill dragon.

> x paintings. take paintings. xyzzy.

> play chess —or— play flute.

> s.

Antechamber

> x princess. x clothes. x ornaments. x tiara. x ring.

> take clothes. (or ornaments, tiara, ring)

> x window. x door. open door. knock on door. take door. take hatch.

> ask princess about princess. ask princess about castle.

> ask princess about door (or guard). ask princess about apple.

> ask princess about chess (or king, queen). ask princess about dragon.

> ask princess about prison. ask princess about chasm. ask princess about suit.

There are two ways to go south:

(Note that the apple solution only works if you're carrying the apple directly or indirectly via the wooden table's drawer.)

> take princess. knock on door. s. —or— show apple to princess.

Throne Room

In the next three turns, the king will enter and make a speech. You cannot try to talk or leave during his appearance.

> x guards. x king. x throne.

> ask princess about guards. ask princess about sceptre.

> sw.

Southern Sidechamber

> ask princess about ball. ask princess about garden.

> x window. x walls. climb wall.

> x fruit. eat fruit. take fruit. taste fruit. climb wall.

> x bowl. take bowl. x sidetable. take sidetable.

> u. take window. enter window.

Small Garden

Note that you can't bring the princess here. She stays behind, even if you were carrying her earlier.

> x ball. take ball. x flowers. take flower.

> x bushes. search bushes. x rope. take rope.

> kick ball. kick ball at window. kick ball at window.

> look. x sun. take sun. u.

Southern Sidechamber

> x lamp. turn on lamp. turn off lamp. (We can't turn the lamp on, but the sun will provide light for us.)

> ask princess about lamp. take princess. n. nw.

Northern Sidechamber

You can't really do anything here; I just wanted to show you what was here.

> x bone. take it. ask princess about bone. ask princess about rufus.

> s. w.

Cellar

You can't bring the princess in here, nor take the dog out.

> x dog. x sceptre. x cobwebs. take cobwebs. take sceptre.

> take dog. empty dog. take dog. empty dog into me.

> e.

*** You have successfully escaped from the castle. ***

Extras

Characters

• Your cousin is the author of the game that the player character is playing. Although mentioned in the prologue and at various points in the game, he only makes a cameo appearance in the epilogue, after you've won.
• A dragon is in the Fourth Room; it blocks your way south. You put it to sleep by playing a flute or by playing chess.
• A princess is originally in the Antechamber, where she wants an apple. Show it to her. You can also pick her up. Later, she tells you she hid her father's sceptre and will tell you where it is if you can retrieve her ball from the garden. When you return her ball, she'll give you a lamp.
• Six guards are in the Throne Room. The southwestern door guard is named Edwin; the northwestern door guard is Hank.
• The king makes a speech in the Throne Room about the escaped prisoner (you) and his missing sceptre. He also thanks you for finding the sceptre at game's-end.
• A pug is in the Cellar; he's the princess's dog, Rufus. He's holding the sceptre in its mouth. You can pick him up (briefly) and empty his contents into yourself.

Inventory

In the order you can acquire them in the game:

• wooden table. From the Startroom. Push the dent to open a secret drawer. If you're carrying the table and the apple is in its drawer, you can show the apple to the princess that way. You can also, after opening its drawer, empty the table into yourself to get the iron key, apple, and flute!
• small iron key. You can get it from the wooden table by emptying it into yourself, and the key unlocks the prison cell door, but you still can't go south from the Startroom while the door is there, even when it's open.
• apple. You can get it from the wooden table by emptying it into yourself. You can't eat it, though, since the game continues to think you're not holding it. Show the apple to the princess.
• white flute. You can get it from the wooden table by emptying it into yourself. You can play the flute to put the dragon to sleep.
• prison cell door. From the Startroom. For what it's worth, the small iron key does unlock this door, but that doesn't help you. Take the door itself so it no longer blocks your way out of the Startroom. Put the door across the chasm in the Second Room so you can cross.
• suit of armour. From the Third Room. You don't wear it.
• chesstable. From the Third Room. You can play it (instead of the flute) to put the dragon to sleep.
• princess. See princess under Characters.
• window. From the Southern Sidechamber. Taking it will let you enter the garden.
• sun. From the Small Garden. It's a light-source that you'll need in the Cellar.
• lamp. The princess gives it to you after you've returned her ball to her. Unfortunately, you can't turn the lamp on; use the sun instead.
• fat growling pug. See pug under Characters.
• beautiful golden sceptre. The pug in the Cellar is holding it. To get the sceptre, take the dog and then empty the dog into yourself. Return to the Throne Room with the sceptre to win the game.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account. I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!

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