I almost finished all 4 episodes with no help, at least not directly anyways. I got helped with the hedge maze simply because I thought there was a glitch. The zodiac thing I actually looked up zodiac elements, because I forgot about the four winds articles and I didn't at the time knew it was suppose to empower the objects, I just figure it kills you if you don't do something right so I looked up the zodiac signs. Kinda like how I lost my book to the green isles in king's quest vi and had to look up the logic cliff notes, I don't consider that cheating. The last thing I got helped with cause I was looking up tsl on google to download the games and I vaguely remember it saying something about feeding dogs.