Key & Compass presents:
Through the Looking Glass
by Gareth Rees

In this short one-room tutorial, you play as Alice at the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass. To quote the game: It's a cold winter day outside, but in the looking-glass house it's summer. All you need to do is pretend there's a way of getting through into it somehow...

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the tutorial.

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Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
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Walkthrough

Drawing room

> x me. i. (nothing)

> x window. x glass.

> x white kitten. x black kitten.

> x hearth. x rug. x chair. (It's by the window.)

> take ball. throw ball at black kitten.

> x board. look under rug. (You acquire the red queen.)

> x queen. put queen on board. x king.

> x mantel. touch glass. (too far)

> push chair. (The white kitten is in the way!)

While you can try to pick up the kittens and put them elsewhere, like onto the chair, they refuse to stay put and always jump back onto the floor. To truly get them out of the way, you must give them each something to play with.

> take ball. give ball to white.

> take queen. give queen to black.

While both kittens are occupied:

> push chair. (It's now by the hearth.)

> stand on chair. get on mantel. touch glass.

> enter glass.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

A white kitten and a black kitten are playing together by the arm-chair. Normally, that would be fine, but you want to move the arm-chair and they're in the way.

Inventory

a ball of worsted. It's on the floor.

Give it to one of the kittens to play with.
Note that you can roll it up if it gets tangled, but that's not important.

a red queen. Acquire it by looking under the rug.

Give it to one of the kittens to play with.
You could also put it back on the chess-board where it belongs, but that's not necessary.

a chess board. It's on the floor.

You don't need to do anything with it.

a white kitten and a black kitten. They're on the floor.

Both kittens act identically.
While you can pick the kittens up, they sometimes jump out of your grasp. Assuming they don't do that right away, you can try to put them onto the chair (or onto other things), but they refuse to stay enclosed like that and always jump back onto the floor.
Give the ball of worsted to one kitten and the red queen to the other kitten. When they're both occupied with their toys, you can push the arm-chair from the window to the hearth. Otherwise, one kitten will always be in the way.

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