In your inventory, you have: - the following item found in a scene: the stone to be fashioned - the following item found in an historical factsheet: the percussion tool.
• Drag the stone to be fashioned from the inventory, and drop it onto the grass above the handle.. • Drag the percussion tool from the inventory and drop onto the stone. • Once the stone has been shaped, take it and drop it to the left side of the handle.
Enigma 2: Fire
The task is to set up a modern camp for a tribe.
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: kindling, twigs, hut. - The following items found in the historical factsheets: tinder, fires, torch.
1. Drag the kindling and its small board from the inventory and drop them onto the grass 2. Drag the tinder from the inventory over to the fire stick 3. Click on the fire stick until a flame is obtained 4. Drag the twigs from the inventory and drop them over the flame. A fire starts 5. Drag the hut from the inventory and drop it to the right of the screen 6. Drag the fires from the inventory and drop them onto the grass. 7. Drag the torch from the inventory and drop it over the lit fire. The cursor becomes a torch. 8. Light the unlit fires by positioning the torch over them.
Enigma 3: Agriculture and livestock
The method for this enigma is to drop the correct item from the portfolio into its correct place so that the corresponding image appears. In your inventory, you have:
- The following items found in the scenes: sower, potter, plough, fire, pottery, flax, animal traction, spinner, wool, herd, milk - The following items found in the historical factsheets: needle, fabric, cereals, meat.
To solve this enigma, the solutions are given to you in the following manner, in the form of a column: from top to bottom and from left to right.
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: the inventory, hitching bar, sides of the cart, amphora, sacks of wheat, sail of the boat, 2 crewmen and captain - The following items found in the historical factsheets: diagram of the cart, outline of the boat, rudder
Stage 1: Building the cart
• Drag the cart diagram from the inventory and drop it onto the board • Drag from the inventory, one by one, the wheel, the hitching bar and the sides of the cart, and drop them over the diagram. • Drag the amphora from the inventory and drop it onto the cart. • Drag the sacks from the inventory and drop them onto the cart. • Click on the Egyptian port. The loaded cart appears there.
Stage 2: Building the boat
1. Drag the outline of the boat from the inventory and drop it onto the board 2. Drag the boat's rudder from the inventory and position it on the outline 3. Drag the boat's sail from the inventory and position it on the outline 4. 4. Drag from the inventory, one by one, the two crewmen and the captain and drop them onto the boat. 5. Drag the sacks of merchandise in the scene that have just been unloaded from the cart and drop them onto the boat
Enigma 5: Metals
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: furnace, bellows, foundry worker, unit of fuel, 250 units of copper, 5 units of tin, a second set of bellows, 2 units of fuel, 100 units of iron, blacksmith. - The following items found in the historical factsheets: axe mould, bracelet mould, dagger mould.
Stage 1: The axe
• Drag the furnace from the inventory and drop it onto the greyed-out outline. • Drag the bellows from the inventory and drop them onto the furnace. • Drag the foundry worker from the inventory and drop him by the furnace. • Drag the axe mould and drop it over the furnace. • Drag the unit of fuel and drop it into the door of the furnace. The fire lights up • Take first the 250 units of copper, then the 25 units of tin from the inventory and drop them into the door of the furnace. • The axe is ready!!
Stage 2: The bracelet
1. Drag the bracelet mould from the inventory and drop it into the furnace. 2. Drag the extra unit of fuel and drop it into the door of the furnace. The fire relights. 3. Take first the 50 units of copper, then the 5 units of tin from the inventory and drop them into the door of the furnace 4. The bracelet is ready!
Stage 3: The dagger
• Drag the second set of bellows from the inventory and drop them into the furnace • Drag the two units of fuel from the inventory and drop them into the door of the furnace. The fire relights • Drag the dagger mould from the inventory and drop it into the furnace door. • Drag the 100 units of iron from the inventory and drop them into the door of the furnace.. • When the mould is open, take the blacksmith from the inventory and drop him to the right of the furnace • The dagger is finished!
Enigma 6: The invention of writing
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: Sumerian tablet, cart, jars, Egyptian papyrus, silk, Chinese parchment, incense - The following items found in the historical factsheets: The following Sumerian words or phrases: cart, jars, big, the river, mountain, cross. The following Egyptian words or phrases: army, in the process of, between, pass, in the direction of, river
Stage 1: Translating the Sumerian table
• Drag the Sumerian tablet from the inventory and drop it on the board. • Drag the Sumerian words from the inventory and piece together the following text: • "With the cart and the jars, leave the river and cross the river between the small and the large mountain" • Drag the cart from the inventory and drop it onto the Egyptian city. • Drag the jars from the inventory and drop them onto the cart. • The cart appears in China, rendering the "An'Yan" scene accessible.
Stage 2: Translating the Egyptian papyrus
1. Drag the Egyptian papyrus from the inventory and drop it onto the board. 2. Drag the Egyptian words from the inventory and piece together the following text: 3. "The army is in the process of advancing between two mountains, travelling in the direction of the river, descending in the direction of the current, heading north" 4. Drag the silk from the inventory and drop it onto the cart. 5. The cart appears in Mesopotamia, rendering the "Mesopotamia" scene accessible.
Stage 3: Translating the Chinese text • Drag the Chinese parchment from the inventory and drop it onto the board. • Drag the Chinese words from the inventory and piece together the following text: • "Praise be to he who has opened up the route, now he can return to his home as soon as possible; may incense and silk make him wealthy" • Drag the incense from the inventory and drop it on the cart. • The cart then appears in Egypt.
Enigma 7: Trade
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: fabric, pottery, bronze objects. - The following item found in the historical factsheets: the Code of Hammurabi.
Stage 1: Sale of fabrics
• Drag the fabric from the inventory and drop it onto the left pan of the scales. • Drag the bronze pieces obtained and drop them onto the wheat. • Drag the remaining change from the table and drop it on the olives.
Stage 2: Sale of pottery
1. Drag the pottery from the inventory and drop it on the left pan of the scales. 2. Take the silver pieces obtained and drop them on the incense. There is no change.
Stage 3: Sale of bronze objects
• Drag the bronze objects from the inventory and drop them onto the left pan of the scales. • Drag the gold pieces obtained and drop them onto the camel. • Take the change obtained and drop it onto the wine.
Stage 4: Checking the transaction
1. Drag the Code of Hammurabi from the inventory and drop it onto the middle box to validate the transaction.
Enigma 8: Printing
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: ink, paper, metal moveable type, template page, case, press. - The following items found in the historical factsheets: Mesopotamian seal, first printed text, first printed book, moveable type, portrait of Gutenberg.
Stage 1: Chronology of inventions
Prendre dans le portefeuille les objets suivants, et les poser sur la date correspondant : 1. Mesopotamian seal 20th Century BC 2. Ink 14th Century BC 3. Paper 1st Century BC 4. First printed text 8th Century AD 5. First printed book 9th Century AD 6. Moveable type 11th Century AD 7. Metal moveable type 14th Century AD 8. 8. Portrait of Gutenberg 15th Century AD
Etape 2 : Composition
1. Drag the template page from the inventory and drop it over the page. 2. Drag the case from the inventory and drop it over the page 3. Drag the characters in the case and drop them onto the matrix in such a way as to form the template text: " disciplina: intelligenda verba prudentie "
Stage 3: Printing
1. Drag the press from the inventory and drop it into the scene. 2. Drag, first the paper, then the ink from the inventory and drop them into the screen.
Enigma 9: Around the world
In your inventory, you have: Les йlйments suivants trouvйs dans les tableaux : - The following items found in the scenes: chest of gold, provisions, water, 3 sailors, the bosun, the navigator, other supplies, camphor, ginger,
Stage 1: Preparation of the vessel
1. Drag the chest of gold from the inventory and drop it into the ship's hold. 2. Pick up the provisions from the inventory and drop them into the hold. 3. Pick up the water from the inventory and drop it into the hold 4. One by one, drag from the inventory the sailors, the bosun, and the navigator and drop them onto the corresponding outlines. 5. The tiller, the sail and the compass appear; the boat is now seaworthy.
Stage 2: The coast of Brazil
1. By clicking on the tiller, set the course to south-west. 2. Click on the sail to hoist the rigging. 3. The boat approaches the coast of Brazil, and a new scene is accessible.
Stage 3: The Moluccas
1. Drag the additional provisions from the inventory and drop them into the hold. 2. The boat is ready to sail again. 3. By clicking on the tiller, set the course to southwest. 4. Click on the sail to hoist the rigging. 5. At the Magellan Straits, set the tiller to the northwest and click on the sail to reach the Moluccas 6. The boat approaches the Moluccas, and a new scene is now accessible.
Etape 4 : Sйville
1. Drag the camphor and ginger from the inventory and drop it into the ship's hold 2. The boat is ready to sail again. 3. By clicking on the tiller, set the course to west/south-west. 4. Click on the sail to hoist the rigging. 5. At the Cape of Good Hope, set the course to north/north-west. 6. Click on the sail to hoist the rigging. 7. At Cape Verde, set the course to north/north-east. 8. Click on the sail to hoist the rigging. 9. You arrive at Seville.
Enigma 10: The Industrial revolution
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: steam-powered pump, mechanical looms, rails, girders, the Trevithick locomotive, carriage. - the following item found in the historical factsheets: Newcomen's engine.
Stage 1: Newcomen's engine.
1. Drag Newcomen's engine from the portfolio and drop it onto the drawing. The parts of the engine will separate. 2. Put the engine back together by dragging and dropping the parts onto the drawing. The block must be positioned first, then the cylinder and the arm, followed by the other parts, last of which should be the taps.
Stage 2: Modernising the region
1. Drag the steam-powered pump from the inventory and drop it onto the mine (the building in the background). 2. Drag the steam-powered motor from the inventory and drop it onto the factory in the foreground. 3. Drag the mechanical loom from the inventory and drop it onto the factory. 4. Drag the rails from the inventory and drop them into the set. The cursor changes into a rail. Click on the tracks to lay the rails. When you have completed the task, the cursor returns to normal. 5. Drag the girders from the inventory and drop them onto the wooden bridge to make a bridge with steel girders 6. Drag the Trevithick locomotive from the inventory and drop it into the set. 7. Drag the carriage from the inventory and drop it into the set.
Enigma 11: Electricity
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: Thomas Edison, steam-powered dynamo, arc lamp, Joseph Wilson Swan, incandescent lamp, induction motor, Nikola Telsa. - The following items found in the historical factsheets: the prototype of the electric generator, Volta, magneto-electricity, Leclanchй, Hacksbee, William Grove, efficient dynamo, Ampиre, Faraday, efficient engine, synchronous motor.
Stage 1: Completing the chronology and matching inventor with invention
To solve this enigma, the solutions are given in a linear fashion, in the form of lines going from left to right.
" Line 1 ": prototype of generator / magneto-electricity / efficient dynamo " Line 2 ": Volta / Leclanchй / Edison " Line 3 ": arc lamp " Line 4 ": Hacksbee / Grove / Swan " Line 5 ": synchronous motor " Line 6 ": Ampиre / Faraday / Telsa
Stage 2: Equipping a town
1. Drag and drop the steam-powered dynamo onto the power station : it lights up and comes to life. 2. Next, in no particular order : - Drop the asynchronous motor onto the tram or the factory : the tram and the factory light up. - Drag and drop the practical incandescent lamp onto the screen : the homes and streets light up.
Enigme 12 : The telephone
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes : the telephone exchange, the switchboard operator - The following item found in the historical factsheets : the telephone
Stage 1: Assemble the telephone
1. Drag the telephone from the inventory and drop it onto the drawn outline. It breaks up into parts. 2. Arrange the parts correctly in the following order : 3. The earpiece support 4. The transverse bar 5. The left earpiece 6. The right earpiece (the one with the microphone) 7. The crank 8. The cursor then changes into a telephone. Click on each of the houses to install a set there.
Stage 2: Setting up the telephone network
1. Drag the manual exchange from the inventory and drop it onto the building in the background. 2. Drag the switchboard operator from the inventory and drop her onto the building. 3. Using the red lines that then appear as a guide, link each telephone pole to the exchange, then each house to its telephone pole.
Enigma 13: Terrestrial transportation
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: tarmac, rails, policeman, traffic lights, car one, car two, roundabout, locomotive, carriage. - The following item found in the historical factsheets: the station.
Stage 1 : The roads
Drag the "Tarmac" item from the inventory and drop it into the set. The cursor changes into a section of road. Click on the town at the top left of the screen. A red line follows the cursor; click on the town at the bottom right to create the road linking them. Click on the town at the top right of the screen, and link it to the town at the bottom left. Click on the town at the top centre of the screen, and link it to the one at the bottom centre.
Stage 2 : The railway
Drag the "Rails" item from the inventory and drop it into the set. The cursor then changes into a rail. Click on the town at the bottom left of the screen, and link it to the one on the mid-right.
Stage 3 : Signals and vehicles
Drag the following items from the inventory and drop them into the set: The policeman The traffic lights Car one Car two The station The roundabout The locomotive The carriage
Enigma 14 : Radio - tйlйvision
The object here is to put together a television report on the history of radio.
1. Drag each radio set from the inventory and drop it in the "radio set" box corresponding to its year. 2. The items, "news" and "sound effects archives" go in the following order: 1921: The Carpentier/Dempsey fight 1935: Roosevelt's fireside chats 1938: Nazi propaganda 1939: Radio talent contest 1944 : Radio-Londres 1960: The sixties 3. Drop the television presenter into the boxes
Enigma 15: The conquest of the skies
In your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: the Wright Brothers' plane, Louis Blйriot's plane, Charles Lindbergh's " spirit of St Louis", the Bell X1, the Sputnik, - The following items found in the historical factsheets: Lilienthal's glider, the Montgolfier brothers, jet planes, Youri Gagarine, Alexeп Leonov, Neil Amstrong, Apollo, the Columbia space shuttle, the Russian MIR space station
The events corresponding to the dates of the scenes are as follows: 1783: The launch of the first hot-air balloon 1893: Lilienthal's glider 1903: The Wright Bros' Kitty Hawk 1909: Louis Blйriot's Channel crossing 1927: Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St Louis" 1939: The first jet planes 1947: The Bell X1 breaks the sound barrier 1957: Sputnik, the first artificial satellite 1961: Youri Gagarine, the first man in space 1965: Alexeп Leonov carries out the first spacewalk 1969: Neil Armstrong takes the first steps on the moon 1975: Joint Soviet/American Apollo/Soyouz mission 1981: First flight of the space shuttle Columbia 1986: Launch into orbit of the Russian MIR space station
Enigma 16 : Micro-computing IIn your inventory, you have: - The following items found in the scenes: Monitor, keyboard, case, power leads, motherboard, disc drive, microprocessor, Visual Basic manual
Drag the following items from the inventory and drop them onto the worktop: 1. Monitor 2. Keyboard 3. Case 4. Drag the following items from the inventory and drop them onto the computer case: 5. Power leads 6. Motherboard 7. Disc drive 8. When the motherboard is in position, drag the microprocessor from the inventory and drop it onto the left, top side of the case 9. When all components are in place, click on the front, right face of the case to switch on the computer. 10 Drag the Visual Basic manual from the inventory and drop it onto the desk in front of the computer. 11 Slowly enter the manual text, remembering to press "Enter" on your keyboard at the end of each line, and not forgetting the inverted commas around the word "Hello". 10 PRINT "BONJOUR" ( Enter key ) 20 GOTO ( Enter key ) 10 RUN ( Enter key )