You won't have to wait the two years to know if you have a golden child. As soon as you hear the "kiss" you'll get the green screen alerting you of the golden child birth.

Thus the tough decisions, MysticMac. Do you not gain expertise in Medicine and purposefully not heal your sick villagers in order to make room for the little bugger? It's not easy being the villager master, is it!

I always think of it as asking some to make sacrifices so the others can survive (or at least complete puzzles 10 & 11). The horror... the horror...

I decided to upgrade the last 2 categories to Level 3 so now my guys will probably live forever. The researchers are at loose ends now so they're wandering around, looking at the cactus, trying to move the boulder, exercising or just doing nothing. I left it running all day today, not knowing that I wouldn't get back to it, and just turned in on now. Nothing has happened!

I have 61 villagers so I marked some of the females for breeding so we'll see what happens. Will the GC show up after puzzle 9 or do I have to figure out 10 somehow before it shows up?

You're on the right track. Just keep making more baby villagers!

I kept on and now I have the GC. It's a girl! Her name is Tala. Now I just have one more puzzle to go. Is there any way to make the GC do anything or does she just take her own sweet time getting to it? She just says "hey" if I move her.

I was hoping puzzle 10 would take me to another part of the island. I guess I'm just about finished. I'm going to try the hard level next time; this was the easy one, although, at times, it sure didn't seem that way!

Tala will do what she needs to do when she's good and ready to do it!

That's what I figured! Did you know the GC can walk on water? After she said "hey" a few times I decided to dunk her and let her go swimming but she just stands on the water and then walks back to land. I had tried quite a while ago to get one of the children to swim and got the message that they weren't old enough so Tala's certainly different.

Hey! i've reached max pop and still seen no trace of the GC

You'll need to wait until some villagers die, so that there is room in your village for more babies.