Thanks for your ideas, it helped a lot. I kept my game paused over the weekend when I wasn't at the computer and when I was, I alternated between putting Iapo, a trainee, on the huts and having him drink the potion. Yesterday, he finally became a master, and today the statue was raised. So I'm relieved he did it, because he is a 70 y.o. now. Whew! They squeaked by on that one.