The Hidden Prophecies of Nostradamus

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I had to skip the first beam game 'cause all the paths I created led to nowhere. I can't tell u how I conquered the next one except by trial and error. Two of the 3 locks I destroyed by bouncing the beam off the flowers. The path from the flowers will be the same each time the fire hits it so that helps. Keep trying and don't turn the arrows in the direction where there is no arrow or flower to stop the fire's path or it will go off the page. Once you get the first lock it's a fun challenge after that. Hope this helps.

I'm also having problems with the unscramble the cards thing and I've been to numerous "walkthrough" and "cheat" sites looking for the answer to this one. There is no definite answer.

I understand what I'm supposed to do and I understand how it's supposed to work but that doesn't help one bit.

Your goal is to make one solid picture with only the elements of that one picture showing.

The problem is every time your mouse cursor moves, it changes pieces of the picture to pieces of other pictures.

So... start in the very middle with your mouse cursor. Whatever picture it has changed to by the time your mouse gets to the middle of the card, that will be your base picture that you are trying to complete. Once you complete this picture, it will be taken out of circulation, so to speak, so its pieces will no longer interfere with your next base picture. There will be four pictures you must complete although after going to the other sites, I found out there are actually pieces of more than four pictures in the puzzle. Somehow, that doesn't seem fair but it is what it is.

Starting from the middle piece, very SLOWLY and with VERY TINY MOVES, back away from that piece to the adjacent piece. That adjacent piece will now change and go through a series of changes as many times as you put your cursor on it, then off it, then back on it again.

Take note of the rotation of pieces and recognize when the piece of your current picture comes up. If you mess up, rotate through the pieces again until you get your piece of picture back.

When the correct piece of picture comes up, again... very slowly and with tiny careful moves, back out of it to the next piece and rotate through those pieces until your piece of picture comes up. Back out of that one and so on.

If you are able to back out of a piece of picture until you are completely out of the puzzle and on the sidelines, you can move your mouse cursor anywhere on any side of the puzzle and reenter it at any point. Once you reenter it, the pieces will start changing again.

I noticed at the pivotal joinings of the puzzle - think of nine major pieces for one example with the pivotal joinings being the inner corners where Squares One,Two,Four, and Five meet - where Two, Three, Five and Six meet, where Four, Five, Seven, and Eight meet, and where Five, Six, Eight, and Nine meet - so that's all the major inner pivotal joinings --

Anyway, with THIS Nostradamus puzzle, I noticed that at those points, more than one piece of the puzzle at a time changes when your mouse cursor goes over those points. Sometimes, great huge chunks of the puzzle change. Sometimes, it's a big help and sometimes, it's a big pain.

Good luck.

Thanks Dex, I'll give it a shot.
Appreciate the information.

Connie

I am running Vista as well, and the game would not launch, or to better describe it, once launched the window will not open. what is the required resolution for the game???

gmg29 wrote:I am running Vista as well, and the game would not launch, or to better describe it, once launched the window will not open. what is the required resolution for the game???

Here is a link to an article in the iWin Knowledge Base: Tips for running games using Microsoft Vista. There is an entire section dedicated to Microsoft Vista users and possibly one of the articles will assist you with this game.

~MaryBeth

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pooboo7 wrote:I had to skip the first beam game 'cause all the paths I created led to nowhere. I can't tell u how I conquered the next one except by trial and error. Two of the 3 locks I destroyed by bouncing the beam off the flowers. The path from the flowers will be the same each time the fire hits it so that helps. Keep trying and don't turn the arrows in the direction where there is no arrow or flower to stop the fire's path or it will go off the page. Once you get the first lock it's a fun challenge after that. Hope this helps.

Trial and error seems to be the best way to do the fireball game. In another game I recently played (can't remember which one now), they had a similiar game and it was possible to figure it out by going backwards from the goal (which in this game of Nostradamus would be the keyholes). You start from the keyhole and look in the ROW (horizontal) and the COLUMN (vertical) that intersect at the keyhole and see what "pointers" are in those rows and columns and usually there's only one and make sure it directs the light or fire to the keyhole.

Then working backwards from that pointer, find the next pointer in whatever row or column that points to that pointer and make it point at it. And keep working backwards. Sometimes, you have to let loose a shot of light or fire to test the pathway you created. Sometimes, there is more than one pointer in a row or column and you have to figure out if the light or fire has to first go up a column or down a row before it comes back to the next pointer in that row or column.

The redirect "black holes" of the game make it difficult. I can't remember what they are called but I know if each individual one ALWAYS shoots the energy or fire off in exactly the same direction every time, you can use that information to your advantage but if it is random then it's a pain. I was just about to give up the last time because the last keyhole had to be reached by going through TWO of those black holes as the last two stops before hitting the keyhole and I didn't think I'd ever get it to work but trial and error made it happen and the game was over in a flash almost before I realized I'd gotten through it.

Here's some help on the mixed-up cards mini-games. It really wasn't difficult at all once I trained my eyeballs to only see small sections of the game instead of being overwhelmed by all of the many pieces constantly changing.

The best way I can explain is with pictures. These are thumbnail images of larger images. I cannot display the larger images in my post here because not only would it be a drag on iWin servers, but the framework of the game manager is too small. In fact I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU COPY AND PASTE THE ACTUAL URL TO THE LARGER IMAGES INTO AN ACTUAL BROWSER WINDOW AND NOT TRY TO SEE IT FROM INSIDE THE GAME MANAGER.

URL TO FIRST IMAGE:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7425/nostradamus1.jpg

THUMBNAIL OF FIRST IMAGE:

URL TO SECOND IMAGE:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4363/nostradamus2.jpg

THUMBNAIL OF SECOND IMAGE:

The first image is a screenshot of the basic messed-up picture that you start with. On the right, you will see three cards that I already put together so you can use them for guidelines if you decide to make those same images.

The second image is the same as the first except I've marked some individual sections of the image with red "paint."

The squares marked with an "X" operate as single individual units all alone and unconnected to any other pieces of the puzzle. I could not remember where the other individual "units" were but I think there was one on the bottom row of sections.

When you move your cursor on and off these individual sections, only the individual section will change and no other sections will be affected.

Because (if I remember correctly) ALL of the individual units are "touchable" from the OUTSIDE border of the puzzle, don't even worry about getting them right. When you are finished getting the TRI-SECTIONS all of the same image, then you can go back around the outside edge of the picture and flip through the image choices on the individual pieces until they match the rest of the picture.

If you have to sacrifice correctness in any image piece temporarily, then let it be the individual sections.

Now look at the second image and where I marked three sections with a "1" and "2" and "3."

That's what I call a TRI-SECTION because it comes in three parts that all change together at the same time. If you change one of them, they all change and as they all change, they all reflect pieces of one of the larger card images.

Start with a middle TRI-SECTION and SLOWLY and very carefully back away to another tri-section and cycle through it until it matches up with the first tri-section. Remember, you are playing TRI-SECTIONS, not individual sections. Do not be alarmed then to see three pieces of the puzzle change at once.

I think you can mess up by touching a tri-section that you've already "set" in place as part of the finished image you want. That's okay, just cycle through it again until you get back to where you want. I think this is where the INDIVIDUAL sections become very useful because they are "safe" places for you to back up on when you are backing away from just having changed a tri-section.

If you mess up an individual section, it's no big deal to cycle through it by approaching it from the outside of the puzzle.

I really would tell you go to square one then square nine then square 14 and do this then do that if I knew there was a regular step-by-step cheat for this game but this mini-game, because it is so random, cannot be walked through step-by-step. The best I can do is explain how it works and give you the knowledge to try for yourself.

Good luck and please let me know if this helped anyone.

Yippee! I just now finished the whole game!

zsebibaba wrote:i don't get any error message, i have uninstalled es reinstalled the game, but it doesn't start. when i start it, the game appears on the tasbar and i hear the music, but i don't get anything else. i have played without any problem the 1 hour game, and now when i installed the unlimited it doesn't work.

I'm having the same problem, except that it used to work and then it started doing the same thing, game loads and shows up in the taskbar, and I hear the music but it doesn't appear on the screen. I've deleted it and cleaned up my computer too and it still won't work. Yet I have another computer downstairs thats also a Vista and its working fine so far, except the commercials are flashing in and out and sometimes no sound in the advertising.

Has anyone received a solution to: "After the hidden object portion of the game there are puzzles to solve. Some are easy to figure out while for others there are no instructions as to what the player is supposed to do. For example the one that directs you to unscramble all the cards has no instructions and clicking on anything does not work." Tks

evejoy wrote: I'm having the same problem, except that it used to work and then it started doing the same thing, game loads and shows up in the taskbar, and I hear the music but it doesn't appear on the screen. I've deleted it and cleaned up my computer too and it still won't work. Yet I have another computer downstairs thats also a Vista and its working fine so far, except the commercials are flashing in and out and sometimes no sound in the advertising.

If the game is running OK on another computer in your household, the problem is with the computer it is not running on. It may be your anti-viral package causing the problem. Here's a link to an article which describes which files delivered by the iWin servers need permissions on your machine: Virus & Adware Detection. If that does not clear up your problem, you need to file a trouble ticket with Customer Support Center.

~MaryBeth

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npatty1 wrote:Has anyone received a solution to: "After the hidden object portion of the game there are puzzles to solve. Some are easy to figure out while for others there are no instructions as to what the player is supposed to do. For example the one that directs you to unscramble all the cards has no instructions and clicking on anything does not work." Tks

Please see my earlier post that explains the "card unscramble" mini-game.

Has anyone tried my idea for the card unscramble mini-game? I'm just really curious to see if it worked for anyone else.

I could never unlock the locks so I skipped that part....I really liked the game itself altough I'd have liked it more if there were more levels

I can not figure out the mini game with the three keys! I can get two but the third one in the third column I can not get. Can anyone please help!