These hints will not give you the final solution to Blue Ice, but they will
help you to solve some parts of the puzzle which are driving you mad. They
will only help you if you have already mastered the basics of the game.
Top five handy hints
* Try everything! This games does not follow the rules, so even if it
seems bizarre...go for it.
* Watch carefully when the hand goes red...you know you will have to come
back to do something at a later stage. Even more importantly when the
arrow goes red, you know you have found the entrance to one of the many
rooms...now you just have to get into it.
* The moon will cut plants which you need...the reed in the pond for the
clarinet in the music room, the Yerba de Mate plant in the first
garden, and the lavender plant and the plant you need to paint with in
the second garden.
* You need to keep going back to the rooms, they all interact with each
other. Items from one room will only be relevant in another room etc.
* Various books in the library shelves will change when you have either a
liquid, a powder, an insect or a leaf. Depending on what sort of item,
you have the description will change eg in the liquids book there are
descriptions for water, wine, lavender water etc. You need to refer to
these books for clues.
THE FOLLOWING HINTS ARE NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF WHAT YOU MUST DO IN
EVERY ROOM, BUT THEY WILL HELP TO GET YOU OVER SOME OF THE HARDER PARTS:
The Front of the House (first scene)
1. Put the sun on the large plant to the right of the screen, then water the
flower with water in the bottle, then put the sun on again, then you get a
blackberry. Use the hand to pick it. If you leave it a minute, you will get
a fly, use the net to collect it. This fly goes in the spiderÆs web.
2. Eventually you will be able to go into another æroomÆ above the chimney.
This happens a fair way into the game.
The Pantry
1. Collect the onion for later use in Olly's bathroom
2. Note the containers of salt and sugar. You use the salt cellar from the
kitchen and fill it with either of these. If you want to empty the salt
cellar, just click on it over the meat.
Mrs S's Bedroom
1. Use the empty salt cellar from the kitchen to collect sleeping powder
from the cup with the zzz's on it. Put this in Mrs S's glass in the library,
along with some wine from the bottle below her in the library (place hand on
wine bottle, when it turns into a fist, keeping your finger on the mouse
button take it up to the glass, then release). This will allow you to go
from the first garden room to the second.
2. Later in the game, you can eventually use the arrow to go in the wine
glass (collect the icecube, put it in the beaker in the lab, and it will
turn into one of the pieces of paper you need to solve the game)
3. You can go inside her mouth, by placing the hand near her mouth then
using the arrow. Once inside her mouth collect the tooth from the lower
right hand side, this will start the generator in Olly's bathroom (which is
through the music room).
The Kitchen
1. The bottle from the kitchen is essential, collect it by using the hand on
the top of the bottle, then when the hand closes move it over to Mrs S and
release. (Remember this technique as you will need it to milk the cow and at
various other times of the game) You will now be able to pick up the bottle.
You can fill it with different liquids throughout the game (eg: wine, milk,
water, vinegar, lavender water) and empty it into either the pond or Olly's
bathroom.
2. Put milk into the butter urn which is hanging over the stove. Then use
the knife to collect it and spread it on the toast.
3. To make blackberry jam, you need to collect three blackberry's all at
once. Once you have collected your first blackberry from the front of the
house, take it to the library and place it in the mouse hole. Then use the
hand to collect the mouse, put the mouse back in the hole. Go and get
another blackberry and repeat the procedure. Then do the whole thing one
more time. Once you've placed three blackberries in the hole, go in and
collect them using the hand. Now put them in the saucepan and you're on your
way to making blackberry jam.
The Dining Room
1. The hints above on making toast, butter and blackberry jam will give you
one part of the menu.
2. To make the Royal Yerba De Mate, you add the boiled water to the teapot,
then put in the leaf, then put the hand on the handle to pour into the cup.
Then add milk and sugar.
3. Making the cheese sauce is easy...get the cheese from the mouse hole add
to the saucepan in kitchen, throw in milk and salt from the pantry.
4. Now you just need the eel. We have not yet worked that out, so you are on
your own here! The only clues we have are from the Blue Ice demo and a bit
of cheating. All we have worked out is you need to put a fly - there must be
a third one somewhere in the game - on the meat in the pantry, collect the
maggot, get Olly to blow on it in the hall, feed it to the large fish in the
pond, put the fish on the side of the pond, feed it to the eel, then cook
the eel on the inside of the fireplace.
Pollyanna's Bath
1. Collect the pig shaped sponge, use it to wipe the window above the bath,
then give it to Olly in the first garden.
Olly's Bathroom
1. Collect an onion from the jar in the Pantry and feed it to Olly. Then go
to his rear end with hand and you will collect a wind icon (pretty sick!!)
This icon will play the instruments in the music room. You also need to use
it to get the fire going in the drawing room (first place the hand on the
bucket near the fire, then light it with the candle, then use the wind. The
fire will toast the bread)
2. Make sure you collect the toothbrush, this is also a paint brush.
3. Use the hairnet from Mrs S's bedroom (use the hand above her hair to get
it), near the cactus to collect a fly.
The Lab
1. Put the fly from the bathroom into the pestle. Then pick up the red paint
with the toothbrush...take it to the drawing room and you will have one of
the colours you need. To get the yellow colour take the stick from the
second garden, put it on the tree at the front of the house, you will get a
nut which you put in the pestle. The third colour can be obtained using the
leaf cut using the moon on the plant to the right of the second garden.
2. To get the burner started, use the hand on the switch over on the far
left of the screen. Then put the candle above the burner, and you should get
a flame. The beaker will then heat water (for Yerba De Mate in the dining
room) and also to melt the icecube from the wine glass.
The Drawing Room
1. See hints for the lab to solve this part of the puzzle.
2. You need to light the candle in this room to light up the cellar and the
spider room. Just collect the match from the kitchen, strike it against the
box, and put the lighted match to the candle.
3. You can go into the fireplace using the arrow.
4. Later on in the game, after you have got into the wine glass, you can go
into the small painting on the wall.
The Second Garden
1. Use the moon to get the lavender leaf from the plant to the left, then
drop the leaf to Pollyanna's bath. Fill the bottle with the water and give
it to Olly in his bathroom. Then go back to Pollyanna's bathroom to collect
the note, then give it to Olly in his bathroom.
Outer Space
1. After you have been in the wine glass room, and in the painting room, put
the arrow above the chimney at the front of the house. Drag from one star to
another on the left hand side of the screen...this takes a bit of practice,
but eventually you will form a saucepan sort of shape. Then use the arrow on
the bright star to the right of the screen, near the right eye, this will
take you into another room. We have not worked out the secret to this room,
except if you place some sugar in the middle you get sweets...sounds weird
but try it and see.
HOPEFULLY THESE HINTS SHOULD GET YOU A BIT FURTHER INTO THE GAME. IF YOU
HAVE HINTS FOR GETTING INTO THE 'KISS' FROM THE SECOND GARDEN, OR FOR HOW TO
GET THE MAGGOT, OR THE SOLUTION FOR THE VIDEO SCREEN, PLEASE EMAIL TO
ajvasey@ozemail.com.au.
