INTRODUCTION
This walkthrough gives explicit instructions on playing SIMON
THE SORCERER to a successful conclusion. It does, however, assume
you have read the Game Manual and are familiar with the various
methods of controlling your actions.
In directing you from place to another, I either supply instructions
relative to the screen, right, left, up or down, or assume you
will use the on-line map to zap you to the nearest location to
your next destination. After you have visited a place once, I
assume you will know how to find that place again. However, if
the directions are not clear, I have provided maps as described
in the following General Hints.
GENERAL HINTS
MAPS
CONVERSATIONS
Be pleasant, cooperative and always offer to help. When conversing
with potential or definite enemies never back off unless you have
completely run out of options. If the conversation doesn't turn
out the way I say, just try another response until it does.
TAKING RISKS
Don't be afraid to take risks. Do so. You can't die and you may
need to experience the downside before you can solve the puzzle.
HINTS
Visit the Wise Owl in the Woods for random hints. He will always
tell you something useful, but it may be for past or future use.
Hopefully he will occasionally tell you something of immediate
use.
SAVING
Quite honestly, you don't need to save at all, except before quitting.
You can't die and the game never crashed on me. (The inventory
did become invisible from time to time though!) Anyway, you may
want to replay some sequences again in a different order. Save
as often as feels comfortable. For instance, I saved frequently
during a thunderstorm!
OPENING SCENES
Watch the credits! Simon is lounging around in his bedroom bored
with his homework. Meanwhile Simon's dog is exploring the attic.
Hearing barking from upstairs Simon climbs up to the attic and
opens the chest. The dog jumps out and Simon discovers a spellbook.
Handling the spellbook invokes a spell which causes a small local
rift in the fabric of space and time. The dog walks through the
rift and Simon follows . . .
Simon finds himself in the middle of a Goblin food invocation
ceremony. The dog hides, but Simon loses his spellbook and is
put into the Goblin's cooking pot! Doggie to the rescue! They
both escape and arrive at Calypso's cottage. Calypso, a Grand
High Wizard, has left a letter for Simon explaining that he has
been captured by the evil wizard Sordid and has brought Simon
here to find and rescue him.
But first Simon must become a wizard himself so that he can use
Calypso's spellbook . . . where ever it is now!
CALYPSO'S COTTAGE
Take the magnet from the refrigerator door. Open the desk drawer
and take the scissors.
Go outside and go right into the village and at the Blacksmith's,
up to the tavern. Open the door and go into the tavern. Look at
the fruit machine and take the matches. Talk to the Nubile Valkyries
about Sordid. Use the scissors to cut off the sleeping dwarf's
beard. Go into the room on the right and converse with the wizards
until they agree to tell you how to become a wizard. They tell
you must find and return with a magical staff. The staff is last
known to be in the possession of, the now deceased, Nafflin the
Necromancer.
Leave the tavern. Head left past the Shoppe, up to the Dodgy Geezer.
Get away from this guy as quickly as you can. You'll find him
useful later on. Go left to the Apothecary's. Pick up the ladder
outside the apothecary's cottage. Go inside and take the cold
remedy and specimen jar.
WISE OWL
Return to outside the Shoppe and go left into the woods. When
you reach the four way junction, take the first path on the left.
Continue along this path until you see the wise owl. Talk to the
owl. Pick up a hint or two. Take the feather from the left center
of the screen.
Return to the four way junction and take the first path on the
right. Continue on this path until you see the tree stump. Talk
to the woodworm. They will ask you to find some mahogany for them.
Take the path down and continue left to the Witch's Cottage. Turn
the handle of the well and haul up a bucket of water. Take the
bucket of water.
BARBARIAN
Return along the path and then go left to the four way junction.
Take the second path on the right and continue on this path until
you meet the Barbarian. Help the Barbarian and he will give you
a whistle.
TROLL BRIDGE
Return left to the four way junction. Take the lower right path
and walk past the Woodworm tree stump to the Troll Bridge. As
soon as the action stops talk to the troll so that he takes and
uses your whistle. The Barbarian comes and clears the bridge.
Walk across the Troll Bridge and continue along this path, taking
the upper right path at the junction, until you meet the Oaf.
Talk to the Oaf about his beans. Suggest they need watering. Pour
the bucket of water over the beans. You will leave. Return and
pick the beans up out of the puddle.
BEHIND CALYPSO'S COTTAGE
Return to the village and go to Calypso's cottage. Plant the beans
in the compost behind Calypso's cottage. Pick the water melon.
SOUSAPHONE
Return to the Troll Bridge and go to the upper left to the sousaphone
player. You will try to escape the noise but you also want that
sousaphone! Visit the sousaphone player again and throw the melon
into the sousaphone. The sousaphone player will hand the instrument
over to you for repair.
Return left to the five way junction, then take the upper right
path to the cordoned off hole. Talk to the paleontologist who
is inside the hole. He is looking for a fossil.
Continue right along the path to the Center of the Forest. Take
the higher path, that starts on the left, to the Goblin Fortress.
Look for the shopping list under the stone. Take it.
Return to the lower path and continue right to the Woodcutter's
Cottage. Talk to the woodcutter. He is miserable because he can't
cut down the magic trees. He needs a magic axe made from Milrith.
He will give you a metal detector.
Return to the Center of the Forest and take the upper right path.
Continue through the cave entrance and on into the swamp. Attempt
to open the door of the Swampling's residence and the Swampling
will invite you in. Talk to the Swampling. Accept the stew. Eat
as much Swamp stew as you can. Ugh! Fill the specimen jar with
the stew when you can. Keep eating the stew until the Swampling
has to leave. Leave and continue right to the mountains.
SLEEPING GIANT
Keep walking right through the mountains until you reach the Sleeping
Giant. (Why have all those people turned to stone?) Disturb the
sleeping giant by playing the sousaphone. This will make him push
the tree over so you can walk across the chasm.
Continue right to the Dragon's Cave. Visit the dragon. Blackened!
Click on Simon to recover. Go into the cave again. Give the cold
remedy to the Dragon. Go into the cave and take the fire extinguisher.
Leave and walk behind the cave. Pick up the rock with the fossil.
Go right, and right again, at the climbing pins, continue right
and talk to the Talking Tree.
Return to the Sleeping Giant then go left. Use the metal detector.
Return to the village. Open the Shoppe door. Hand over the shopping
list to the shopkeeper.
Visit the Blacksmith and give him the rock. You will leave with
a fossil.
PALEONTOLOGIST
Return to the Center of the Forest and go left to the Paleontologist.
Give the fossil to the Paleontologist and tell him you found it
in the mountains (where you actually detected the milrith!)
Return to the Sleeping Giant and go left. Search the dirt and
rocks and pick up the milrith ore.
Return to the village and visit the Blacksmith. Give the milrith
to the Blacksmith and he will make you an axe head. Pick up the
bell clapper from the bench. Also take the rope and attach it
to the magnet.
WOODCUTTER'S COTTAGE
Return to the Center of the Forest and go right to the Woodcutter's
cottage. Hand the axe head over to the woodcutter and he will
leave. Go into his cottage. Pick up the climbing pin on the left-hand
side. Put out the fire in the fireplace with the fire extinguisher.
Move the hook over the fireplace and you will go down to the basement.
Take the mahogany.
WOODWORM
Go to the Troll Bridge and take the lower left path to the tree
stump where the woodworm reside. Talk to the woodworm. The woodworm
become part of your inventory.
TOWER
Go to the Cross Roads. Take the lower right path to the tower.
Put the bell clapper in the bell and sound the bell. Climb the
long braid of hair. Talk to the girl behind the screen and kiss
her. Well, she did say "when she was a piglet"! The
pig 'Repulser' becomes part of your inventory. Use the woodworm
on the floorboards. Go down through the holes to the basement,
using the ladder on the second hole.
Open the tomb. Could this be Nafflin the Necromancer with the
magic staff? You will be forced to leave, but you can now return
here through the ground floor doorway. Go in and go back down
to the tomb, open it again. Do not look at the mummy but pick
up the stringy bandage at his back. The mummy will unwind and
be destroyed. Take the staff.
GOLUM
Return to the Cross Roads and take the path up, on the right,
to the waterfall. Climb down the vines at the lower left of the
screen. Talk to the Golum. He will tell you he needs food for
a party. Give the Swamp stew to the Golum fisherman. You will
sit down to fish and eventually find the ring of invisibility.
BEEHIVE COTTAGE
Return to the village. Go to the path outside the Apothecary and
go left to the Beehive Cottage. Have Repulser, the pig, eat the
Chocolate truffle door. Go into the cottage. Take the smokebox
and beekeeper's hat. Go outside. Use the smokebox on the beehive.
Pick up the wax.
Go to the tavern and ask the barman to fix you a drink. While
he is preoccupied put the wax on the nozzle of the barrel behind
the bar. The barman will think this barrel is empty and leave
it for you outside. He will also give you a free beer voucher.
Pick up the barrel of beer when you leave.
Return to the Center of the Forest. Look at the rock at the mine
entrance. Pick it up and look at the rock again. It says "beer".
This is the password to get into the mine. Put on the beard. Go
into the mine. Try to go to the left. Bribe the guard with the
barrel of beer. Return up the steps and go to the left. Talk to
the dwarves. Find out how to get into the treasury (through the
golden door on the upper left). Take the hook. Return to the steps
to the right and go down to the beer room. Use the feather on
the sleeping guard to make him turn over. Take the key.
Return to the treasury door and open it with the key. Talk to
the dwarf. Bribe him with the beer voucher. He will give you a
gem.
DODGY GEEZER
Return to the village and visit the Dodgy Geezer. Drive a hard
bargain and sell the gem to him for 20 gold coins.
SHOPPE
Return to the Shoppe. Buy the hammer and white spirit. Leave.
Outside the shop, open the box and get in.
GOBLIN'S FORTRESS
Open the box you are hiding in. Look at the boxes. Pick up the
spellbook. Look at the spellbook and you will find a loose piece
of paper. Pick up the rat bone. Put the piece of paper under the
door. Use the rat bone on the lock. Pick up the piece of paper.
Use the key to unlock the door. Open the door and leave.
Pick up the bucket and go down the stairs. Talk to the Druid.
Remove the ring. Talk to the Druid again until he tells you he
needs to see a full moon. Put the bucket over the druids head.
Pick up the mints. Pick up the flaming brand and hold it over
the Druid's head. The Druid escapes as a frog.
When you hear Goblin guards approaching, open the iron maiden
and hide in it. The frog will return with a hacksaw. Open the
iron maiden. Take the hacksaw and use it on the bars. Leave.
DRAGON'S CAVE
Return to the Dragon's Cave and use the hook to climb up to the
boulder above the cave entrance. Use the rope and magnet on the
hole (this is the skylight in the Dragon's Cave) and you will
collect some gold coins. Repeat this three times until the magnet
comes up empty.
TALKING TREE
Climb down and return to the Talking Tree. Clean up the pink splotch
with the white spirit. Talk to the tree. The tree will tell you
four magic words.
TAVERN
Return to the village. Visit the wizards in the tavern. Talk to
them. Hand over the staff and pay the fee to become a wizard.
Ask the wizards about Sordid.
Visit the Apothecary. The Druid is at home and he wants you to
find him some Frogsbane.
SKULL ISLAND
Go to the Center of the Forest. Return to the Swampling's
hut. (Thank goodness the Swampling's not back yet!) Move the box
and open the trap door. Go through the trap door and walk along
the planks. Fix the loose plank with the hammer and nail. Continue
right to Skull Island. Pick the Frogsbane.
APOTHECARY
Return to the village and visit the Apothecary. Hand over the
Frogsbane and you will receive a mysterious potion labeled "Drink
Me".
WITCH'S COTTAGE
Go to the witch's cottage. Open the door and go in. Try to take
her broom. You will get chucked out but enter the cottage again.
The witch will offer to play a game with you. Accept.
Use the magic word "Sausages" repeatedly until you win
the game. You may not win the first game, but keep returning to
the cottage and playing the game until you do. The witch will
then cheat and become a dragon. Escape by saying "Abracadabra"
and becoming a mouse. Run away through the mouse-hole near the
rocking chair. You now have the broom.
CLIMBING PINS
Return to the Dragon's Cave and go to the climbing pins. There
is one missing but you have one in your inventory. Put the spare
climbing pin in the hole. Walk across the climbing pins.
SNOWMAN
Eat the mints and the snowman will melt.
SORDID'S TOWER
OUTSIDE
Continue right to Sordid's Tower. Use the witch's broom to get
across the chasm. Consume the "Drink Me" potion. You
will walk through a crack in the door. Your dog will grab you
and put you in the garden.
Pick up the leaf. Pick up the stone. Look in the bucket and take
the matchstick. Go left to the puddle. Pick up the lily-pad. Put
the matchstick on the lily-pad and the leaf on the match to make
a sailing boat. Sail over to the seeds. Take a seed. Return to
shore. Crush the seed with the stone. Attach the dog hair to the
tap. Use the seed oil on the tap and turn on the water by pulling
the dog hair.
Use your makeshift sailing boat to get to the other side of the
puddle. On leaving the boat you are nearly swallowed by a frog!
Look at the water and pick up the tadpole. Threaten the frog and
that you will harm the tadpole unless the frog gets out of your
way. When the frog leaves look at the mushrooms. Pick the mushroom
labeled "Eat Me" and eat it.
GROUND-FLOOR AND BASEMENT
Open the door and go inside. Terrified, you run outside. Pick
up the branch. Go inside again and put the branch in the snapping
chest's mouth. Pick up the shield and the spear.
Go downstairs to the torture chamber. Pick up the chest. Move
the lever to open the press. Put the chest on the block and move
the lever so the chest is crushed. Move the lever again to raise
the press. Pick up the candles. Use the spear to fetch down the
skull hanging from the ceiling on the left. Pick up the skull.
BEDROOM AND LABORATORY
Go upstairs, then upstairs again, to the bedroom. Pick up the
sock, the pouch and the magic wand. Pick up and read the book.
Now you know what to do with Sordid's wand. Talk to the mirror.
Put the sock in the pouch. Put the pouch in the mouse-hole at
the foot of the stairs. You will catch the mouse.
Go upstairs and talk to the demons. Keep talking until they tell
you they want to return to the pit. Pick up the book and read
it. You now know how to return these demons to their home. Talk
to the demons some more and find out more information if you can.
Pick up the chemical, the magical metal polish, and use it to
polish the shield. Place the shield on the hook.
Go downstairs to the bedroom. Talk to the mirror and ask to see
the lab. You will hear the demon's true names.
Go upstairs and keep talking to the demons until they give you
the chalk so you can start the ritual to send them back. When
you have completed the ritual, get into the teleporter, select
the Fiery Pits of Rondor as your destination.
Pick up the sapling and the pebble. Talk to the attendant. He
will give you some brochures. Look at the brochures and then use
the elastic band on the sapling. Use the catapult on the fire
alarm. Pick up the souvenir matches from the counter.
Go right, across the bridge and pick up the floor wax. Go right
to Sordid. Use the wand on Sordid to turn him to
stone. Now light the pits with the matches. Throw the wand into
the lava. Uh-oh! Sordid tries to kill you. Return to the lava
pits and deal with Sordid. How? Use the floor wax so that he loses
his footing . . . and falls into the lava!
Congratulations! Enjoy the closing sequences!
This walkthrough is copyright (c) 1995
by Diana Griffiths. All rights reserved. Not to be distributed
without permission.
