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Walkthru for    SAM&MAX HIT THE ROAD           by G.J.Woeginger
                                               (woe@fmatbds01.tu-graz.ac.at)
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(* 0 *)  GENERAL REMARKS.  
"Sam & Max hit the Road" is a Lucasfilm adventure game.  In the beginning,
you can visit five places all over the USA, but during the game many new 
locations will appear on the map.  In this walkthru I indicate this by 
"--> new location".  I divided the story into a step by step solution
containing five parts.  There is no need to stick to my sequence as you
solve the puzzles.  There is no need to play the games-inside-the-game
arcade games with the exception of the Wak-a-rat at the carnival.  Have fun!
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(* 1 *)  GETTING STARTED.    
In the office, examine the rathole (to get your money) and take the bulb.
In front of the house, use Max with the cat.  In one of the FastFood
restaurants, buy the candies.  Go to the carnival and give your piece of 
paper to the man at the entrance.  Talk to the twisted brothers and receive 
a ticket.  You must do the following things at the carnival.  (a) Play 
Wak-a-rat, get a flashlight and use the bulb with it.  (b) Take the giant 
lens nearby the Wak-a-rat.  (c) Ride the Cone-of-Tragedy, loose all your 
junk, go to the lost+found and retrieve your items.  This brings you a 
magnet "--> Fishing Area".  (d) Ride the Tunnel-of-love, use the flashlight 
with the walls, and use Max with the fuses.  Then touch the rightmost 
statue to open a door.  Give the candies to the moleman "--> ball of twine" 
and get a key.  (e) Go to Trixie's car and open it with the key.  Get the 
suit and the score-card for the gulf-place "--> Gulf-place".  (f) Pickup 
the jar with the hand of Jesse James and have it opened by one of the 
waiters in one of the FastFood restaurants. (g) Pickup Bruno's hair near 
the melted ice-block.
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(* 2 *)  FISHING AREA, BALL OF TWINE, GULF PLACE, MYSTERY VORTEX.
At the fishing area, pickup the bucket of fish.  At the Gulf-place, pick up 
the gulf-ball retriever and then meet the country-singer.  Exchange the 
bucket of gulf-balls with the bucket of fish.  Play gulf and aim at the
crocodiles till they form a path accross the water.  Free Max and get 
another piece of bigfoot-hair.  Open the door under the glass cage and take 
the snow-thing "--> Mystery Vortex".  At the museum in the Ball of Twine, 
use the ball retriever with the hand and the magnet and use this tool in 
the twine to get the mood-ring.  In the mystery vortex, use the mirror to 
get to a room with three magnets (red, blue and yellow.  The yellow one is 
one screen to the right).  Turn on all magnets to produce the color white; 
this allows you to open the white door in the main room (the other three 
doors can also be opened by the appropriate combinations of the magnets, 
but they are useless).  Behind the white door you find another moleman, and 
you return him his mood-ring.  For this you get an information (frog's rock) 
and some special powder.  In the upside-down room, pick up the hairs from 
the ice.
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(* 3 *)  FROG'S ROCK, BUMPUSVILLE, JUNGLE INN.
In the restaurant at the ball of twine, talk to the man and get a twisted
crank.  Pick up the wires and connect them to the binoculars, use the lens
from the carnival with the binoculars.  Look thru it and search for frog's 
rock "--> frog's rock".  At frog's rock, follow the moleman's instructions
and use the three hairs and the powder with the rock "--> Bumpusville".  
At Bumpusville, pick up the book with the help of the gulf-ball retriever.  
Read the book and manipulate the robot.  Enter the virtual reality cabin 
and get a key.  WIth the help of this key free Bruno and Trixie "--> Jungle 
Inn".  At the jungle inn, talk to the actress and receive some pamphlets 
"--> Dino-Bungee", "--> Vegetable world".  
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(* 4 *)  DINO-BUNGEE, VEGETABLE WORLD.
In one of the FastFood restaurants, pick up the papercup and sent Max to 
the restroom. Keep the rasp and give it to the Bigfoot at the inn.  At 
dino-bungee, go to the bungee jumping with Max.  Use the paper cup with
the ball-retriever and get some tar.  Use Max with the hairy dino and get
the fur.  At Vegetable-world, pick up the Bumpus-vegetable and use it with
the toupet at Bumpusville.  Return to the inn.  Use the tar, the fur and 
the toupet with the suit and wear the suit.  You are allowed to join the
party.  Leave thru the door at the left (in the background) and get rid
of the country-singer.  Talk to the chief and learn about the secret of 
the four totempoles.  
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(* 5 *)  THE FOUR TOTEMPOLES.
To the right of the totempoles, there is an exit to the chief's pool. Visit
him and talk with him.  (i) For the first totempole, pick up the bottle of 
wine at the party and the tool near the freezer with Mr.Bumpus.  Go to the 
ball of twine and have the tool bent.  Open the wine with the bent tool, 
and plug the snow-thing with the cork.  Go to the mystery-vortex and fill 
the snow-thing at the upside-down room.  (ii) At the fishing area, use the
crank with the artificial fish.  Enter the fish and take Max with you. This
brings you to the other side of the ball of twine.  Use Max to get a long 
piece of twine, and jump down.  At the dino-bungee, make the left dino open
its mouth, use the twine with it, and use Max with the twine to get a tooth.
(iii) At Bumpusville, pick up the picture of John Muir and take it to 
Vegetables-world.  Give it to the lady, leave, return and receive a pumpkin.
(iv) At Bumpusville, pick up the pillow with the green hair-tonic.  Finally,
return to the chief and hand him over the snow-thing, the tooth, the pumpkin
and the pillow.  You save the race of bigfoots.  The adventure ends with 
another fine (shooting) game.
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