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305 - The ant farm

PlaneforgerPlaneforger
edited September 2010 in Sam & Max's House of Hints
I'm totally stuck on this ant farm puzzle (for the first time in the season), and it's getting slightly frustrating.

I realise that I have to somehow get the ant farm down from the top shelf, and that it might require performing some actions beforehand using the two rhinoplasty options in the room (the cactus and the little cart thing), yet I can't seem to manage to get any further than that.

Ramming the shelf as the cart alternates between two 'this isn't working' cutscenes, and I can't seem to find anything at all that I can do as the cactus. Turning on the hints just told me the obvious, and I don't seem to have anything in my inventory which can help.

What am I missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. :confused:

Comments

  • Emo HoeEmo Hoe
    edited August 2010
    Hitting it with the vaccum cleaner (what you called the cart) is the way too go. On my first play through I kept hitting it from close up, thou due to the controls i got a few long hits in and it eventually fell. On my second play through I made sure to take a run up each time and it took 3 hits to cause the roach farm to fall.
  • PlaneforgerPlaneforger
    edited August 2010
    Thanks for the speedy response. I'll give it a shot. ;)
  • KatoKato
    edited August 2010
    (sorry to hijack your thread, this is relevant) I knocked it down and now I don't know what to do. After I did so I got a bug where I couldn't use any controls, so I reloaded. It's not on the floor or anything, it just disappeared after the cutscene where the roach crawled out of it.

    EDIT: nevermind, duh-huh :P
  • russell19831983russell19831983
    edited August 2010
    first of all you need to hit it on the right hand corner, second sam vacuums up the roach, so just use the lift then go in your inventory, the roach will be there
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited August 2010
    It's kind of a cheap puzzle, having to hit it thrice.

    Not nearly as bad as Runaway's "fill the boiler 5x with water before it works" though.
  • drantindrantin
    edited September 2010
    And that's not as bad as the "Dance Monkey Dance" trophy in Tales of Monkey Island 5... you have to repeat an action 8 times with no variation in response...
  • SparifankerlSparifankerl
    edited September 2010
    Well, in Curse of Monkey Island you can get an easter egg if you take the sea of Blood Island 25 times.
    You see the corpse of Guybrush from the first Monkey Island when you wait more than 10 minutes underwater tied to the idol. The CoMI Guybrush walks in from the right, says something and leaves again.
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited September 2010
    I am pretty sure it's 52 times actually, wasn't it?
    There is also the 9x hitting the dispenser in 304.

    However all of these are side-gags, not required puzzles, so they aren't really comparable.
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