ELIXIR
SolutionImagine the 40 screens are coded A-H left to right and 1-5 from bottom to top - Cyril starts in 4C.
A useful point to remember - Cyril can stand quite close to pills without touching them, thus allowing you jump over green and yellow pills.
From the start (4C) get thread and pill, then left on middle shelf to 4B. Jump over pink pill to land on top of bottle then jump along bottles to get pill then, from left bottom shelf, fall right to 3B. Go right through 3C, avoiding flash-bulbs, to 3D to get pill, return to 3C and go to the left of shelf with bandage, jumping left to 3B. Get pill, right to 3C, get pill and antidote, up and left through 3B to 3A.
Climb down string and fall to left to get pin. Go left, get pill and down to 2A. Jump across gap using thread on hook and then down thread. Climb up and left for pill then fall right onto shelf in 2B. Work your way up to get pill, jump left back to 2A, then down to 1A, landing on bottle. Jump left for magic bean, climb up to 2A, up hanging thread and right, hop on top of green bottle, right through 2B to 2C.
Fall right to just above red pill, wait for correct moment, left and right to get pill and left to 1A, left again and down for pill then right through 1B to 1C. Avoid flash-bulbs, collect pill and move to leftmost item on bottom shelf into 1B, jump up string and back to 1C. Move right along middle shelf, then up and right to 1D. Avoid lipstick missiles, get pill, right to 1E, get pill then right to 1F.
Avoid flash-bulbs, climb string, get pill and bottle stopper, then right to 1G, jump along bottles to get pill, then left 1F and up to 2F, left to 2E, move along Bunsen burner tubing to 2D. Jump onto tap to turn burner off, get pill, right to 2F, right and up, collecting pill and covering of oil, right to 2G, get pill, right to 2H and down to 1H.
Then right and back up to 2H, up and left to 2G, get chewing gum, right and down through 2H to 1H, get pill, left to 1F and up string to 2F. Up to top shelf, left to 2E, get pill, right to 2F, up string to 3F and, at bottom of string, jump right to 3G and get pills.
Back to 3F, up string (collecting pill from middle shelf) to 4F climbing string quickly to top, then fall left to place bottle stopper in position, get pill, then up and left to 4E. Drop magic bean into agar and then left to 4D, get pill, down and right through 4C and 4B to 4A, get pill then up and right, jumping on vanishing cream and toothbrush, to 4B and into 5B.
In the darkroom, avoid the Circularsaurus, go left on shelf into 5A, up and right to 5B, get pill, left to 5A, get pill, down, right and out of darkroom into 4B. Fall right and continue through 4C to land on small shelf in bottom right-hand corner of 4D. Right to 4E, get pill, back to small shelf, fall right into 3E, burst balloon with pin, jump over gap in shelf, then fall left through it and get pill, left and down into 3F. Get magnet, back to 3E, down string to 2E, left to 2F, up string to 4F, left to 4E, climb to top of vine in 5E, get pill, left on middle shelf to 5D, get pill, right to 5F.
Get pill, left and down to 4E through 5E, right to 4F, down string, jump over pink pill to 4G, avoid flash-bulbs, get pill, climb string to 5G and stop leak with plaster. Down and right through 4G to 4H, get pill, go to bottom right shelf, fall left to 3H down string, get pill, up string, left (jumping under magnet) to 3G, jump from left of shelf and climb string to 4F.
Left to 4E, up to 5E, ascend items on middle shelf to 5F, right along top shelf, fall to top of bottle, jump right to 5G, get pill, along top to 5H. Go right, get pill, down
string until you've just washed oil off, then left and down to 5G.Work your way back down through 4G to 3G, left to 3F, up to 4F, left to 4E, up to 5E, left along bottom shelf to 5D, jump from top of left bottle over gap into 5C. Climb up to middle shelf, right to 5D, up string, back to 5C. Get last pill. Drink Elixir!
This solution originally appeared in the "Electron User", published by Database Publications.
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