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DrNoPuma
Since: Mar, 2015
2nd Jan, 2016 06:26:58 AM
Invention Highway Family Edition.
By the way, I never figured out how to solve that puzzle. Thanks!
I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D
rthomas2
Since: Aug, 2010
3rd Jan, 2016 11:23:30 AM
You, sir, are an internet hero. I've been looking for this for *months*. Glad I could help in some small way!
Ok, I've been trawling the interwebs looking for this one...help me tropers, you're my only hope.
The game I'm thinking of came out for PC in the 90s. It was either for Windows 95 or 98, though I think I played it on a later version. Regardless, it was a collections of puzzles/riddles/brainteasers, and I remember it being animated in a cartoonish way. In fact, I believe your cursor was one of those cartoon-character gloves, the white ones with the three fingers instead of four. There's one puzzle in particular I remember: there was a red-yellow-green traffic light, and you had three unmarked switches, with one going to each light. You had to figure out which switch went to which light, but you couldn't see the lights from the screen with the switches, and you only had opportunity to flip them: you could flip any or none of the switches, go back to the screen with the lights, and then return to the screen with the switches in order to label them. You only had one chance at this, for some reason...I think there may have been a dog that would chase you away from the lights?
The solution involved switching one light on, leaving one off, and turning the third on then off. I think you had butter, which you would then take with you outside. One light would be on—that was the switch you left on. Two would be off, but one—the one that you'd switched on then off—would still be warm, which you could find out either by burning your hand on it, or by melting the butter on it.
Any ideas?