Puzzle 4 requires a certain level of technology and a highly skilled villager who will fashion something that your villagers will need in order to completely explore some areas of the village.Puzzle 3 requires the completion of Puzzle 2 and a skilled villager to fashion something that will protect one of the sources of food.Puzzle 2 requires a certain level of technology and will allow your villagers to enjoy a regular, if limited, source of food.It can be solved at the beginning of the game. Puzzle 1 is something that will provide warmth, protection, and technological advantage to your tribe.

The puzzles are counted sequentially, with 1 being the leftmost puzzle in the top row, and 16 being the rightmost puzzle in the bottom row.

You can safely browse these if you just need a gentle push in the right direction. It takes time for your villagers to gain the necessary skills and technology to work through all of the puzzles. Most of the frustration related to solving the puzzles is brought on by impatience. Another good strategy is to drag one of your adult villagers around the island after every tech purchase and look for new things that they can work on, since many of the technologies open up new possibilities for your villagers. These often provide clues that will help you solve the puzzles. Pay attention to the things that your villagers are curious about and the messages that you see when you take one of your villagers 'exploring' around the island. Although some puzzles depend upon the completion of specific puzzles, the 16 puzzles are rarely completed in the order that you see them on the puzzle screen. Most of the puzzles are dependent upon some combination of Village Tech, villager skills, and other puzzles. Picking up a villager while they're working will interrupt them, and they will drop (and lose) the object that they were carrying.You can also use the row of numbers at the top of the keyboard, if your computer doesn't have a numeric keypad. There are 9 sectors of the map, which correlate to the numbers 1-9 on the numeric keypad. Using the keyboard to zoom around the map is an easy way to search for those collectible items.The children can find and harvest mushrooms to augment the village food supply, but only if you make them do it.The villagers' curiosity is often a clue to puzzles.This information will help you choose the order in which to purchase new technology. You can view information about various technology advancements on the Village Tech screen by clicking on the '?' button for that technology.It can be a good idea to monitor their learning progress until they reach Trainee status, so that they will work more reliably on their own. The villagers need to be taught to perform a job they will not start working in a new job on their own.Switching them to a less demanding job will help speed their recovery. Villagers who show a status of 'Weakened' will generally improve in health over time unless they are sick, elderly or continue to suffer injuries.Villagers can become weakened by such things as prolonged disease, starvation, on-the-job injuries, Island Events, or old age.Sick villagers need to be healed or they will weaken and die.If that happens, try to heal your sick villager again with a different villager. Sometimes a villager will 'resist' healing attempts by a specific doctor.Any villager (even a sick one or a child) can heal another villager, but healing is only possible when a villager's status is 'Sick' (check the Details screen).Babies eat as much as adults and making too many babies too soon can quickly create a food crisis.Nursing mothers devote all of their time to caring for their baby and don't do any productive work in the village for 2 years of game time.Clicking on the mask on the main game screen will reveal many different tips that will help you play the game more effectively.Some food supplies may be limited, so be alert for the opportunity to discover new sources of food.There are some important tips and tricks to keep in mind as you develop your own strategy for playing Virtual Villagers 2: The Lost Children. The best strategy is to find the right balance between food and population growth. Be careful, though! Grow your tribe too quickly, and you'll find that they have nothing to eat and will have to rely on the children to gather precious mushrooms to keep starvation at bay. Food, as always, is your villagers' primary need, and you'll also need to provide adequate housing so that the tribe can grow in number and gain the skills they need to solve the puzzles of Isola.

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