I had a mission to solve all puzzles without buying farming 2 and 3
and my trusty villagers...I got lucky 2 out of the first 7 were runners... and I now have all puzzles all collectables and only 20 population ... sad about the two in the graves though.. they were originals in their 20's when i found them but both elders... I feel now I have achieved something!! now all I have to buy is science L3 and Exploration L3 and get another 41 elders lol

How could you solve puzzle 3 puzzle 7 without level 3 farming??

and the algae eating fish requires level three farming

Oy, I meant Puzzle 7 of course. Going back and editing that.

sorry I solved them all except that one I solved that one last when I had enough tech points

I had all the collectables before I had uncovered the mosaic

Congrats on "all the collectibles". Do you have a strategy? I have only 9's and one 10.

I just kept looking
needed dupicates for tech points needed mushrooms for food...looked and looked, when a rare one came I pause the game grab as many kids as I could find and not only got the collectable but got extra tech points

Ah! I never thought of Pause, so a lot disappeared while I was looking for a child.

the collectables and mushrooms will still disappear on pause mode

but it does keep the squirmy little children from running away

you may want to check the map and look at their normal haunts to see if the kids are there, like down by the woodpile, , trying to get the coconuts, etc

Also I just now realized that after you find and pick up the child, you can use the numerical keypad to zoom him/her to where the collectible is. Assuming you can remember..

as I play on i/2 speed and found all collectables sooner in the game maybe they didn't disappear so fast because my other two tribes I ran on 2x speed and found the last collectable by accident when I had actually gave up!

pause to grab kids was something I found by accident I grabbed a kid on a rare collectable then realised this kid was well a (deleted word as not to offend) Dullard so I grab another and both took it to the scientists and I got tech points even though it was a NEW rare one, from then on I paused and grabbed the kids to gain tech points when they found a NEW uncommon or rare thingy!

Me:
"There's a rare collectible! Where's a kid?"
...
"Found one!"
...
"Where's the collectible?"
...
"Found it"
...
"Too %$&*! late!"

I used to think the collectibles didn't disappear on pause, and I still do, because it gives the illusion that they don't disappear. I've never doing that for extra points. Good idea

Frankly I just grab a kid (any kid) and rove the village with him/her until I find a collectable/mushroom, then I go and find another kid and rove with that one until I find the next item.

I do it too isn't it fun?

Very fun!!!

ok i have a question, and excuse this if im wrong, but how can u have beat the game without levels 2 & 3 of farming? I thought that to beat puzzles 2(the dam), 3 (the scarecrow), 10 (the mosiac,completed after the dam) and 14(the gong piece off of the mosiac) you had to have level 2 of farming. Also to beat puzzle 7 (the algae eating fish) you have to complete level 3 of farming. So my question is did I misunderstand or did this not happen?

You need to have level 2 off enginering to build the dam there for letting the crops grow

oh ok. Thank you for straightening me out. I must have just looked at the tech screens wrong.

We all make silly mistakes

Like spelling mistake Keza's made about the dam.

It wasn't me it was my keyboard

It is always the keyboard! We do not make mistakes!

It was you who pressed the keyboard's buttons. LOL.

what if the buttons are too small??

or what if you blinked when you went ot press the key?