Well, I just got the Golden Child. Anyone else have a GC that the very first thing it did was open the cave? Mine just did. Like, literally within seconds of being "born". Anyway, I just solved all the puzzles save one. So, that just leaves getting more research done to build up tech points to buy the final level of science, and then I can solve the last puzzle.

Wow! That was quick!

Apart from the first few games I played, though, I have hardly left my GC alone once he's been born, dragging him from place to place to solve the other puzzles first. Only when they've been solved have I allowed him do his own thing and (in his own good time) open the cave (with time off for partying, of course).

Lol. I didn't really have the chance. Just as I was about to grab him as he came out of the Lagoon, and the game made the announcement that he's been "born", he ran off, with the whole tribe following, and there he was at the boulder, and *boom* the boulder disappears, and that part of the puzzle was solved. It was only after that, that I got the chance to grab him and drag him around to solve the other puzzles, lol.

I will say though, that I now understand everyone else's frustration with him. I'm ready to kill him myself, what with all those parties. I even tried throwing him in the ocean. The little bugger just stood on top of the water, "doing nothing". I screamed in frustration as he ran away to dance.