You are visiting the village of Saint-Hilaire in the 1890s. You can walk around the village, meet various local people, and enter the village inn. When you are in the inn you can help the cook prepare a meal, and you can explore the inn, upstairs as well as downstairs, and go into some of the inn’s rooms.

You are invisible on the screen. Imagine that you are standing in the middle of the screen. You can turn around, and walk forwards or backwards. To do this you use the direction (arrow) keys on your computer’s keyboard:

Move forward; UP arrow key
Move backward: DOWN arrow key
Move to the right: RIGHT arrow key
Move to the left: LEFT arrow key

To make the characters (people) speak, do a left-mouse click. Sometimes they will also tell you what to do next.

In the inn’s kitchen you are asked to help cook a chicken. To do this you have to pick up or select various objects. To do this:

Make a left-mouse click on the object. (If object doesn’t respond, try getting closer to it.)
The object will then seem to hang in the air
To move the object, use the direction (arrow) keys, just as you do to walk around. The object will move with you. To deposit the object you must click on the target place.

In some places a character will ask you if you want to see an information page and YES and NO buttons will appear on the screen. Click YES to see the page, or NO to continue with the game. To close an information page, click with the mouse on the X button on the top right side of the screen. This takes you straight back to the game.

If you want to skip through something a character is telling you, do a left-mouse click.

There is always an Instruction button in the top left corner of the screen. It looks like a small book. Click on the book to open it. You will see “Instructions” – click on this. To leave the game at any time, click instead on “Quit”. It takes you out of the game.

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