Love reading everyone's comments. I had reached and completed all 16 puzzles with success, but kept nurturing my village. Another tumbled-down hut appeared, so I put my Builders to work on it enmass. The hut became completed and is now their clothing hut where they can pay 5000 tech points and pick another suit of clothes. My village has accumulated over 1/2 million tech points! They get to change clothes as much as I like. I still don't have all the tablet pieces in the Collectibles. I also have trouble mating a woman who is in her 50's or older with a guy of any age. Is there a cut-off on the women's breeding age?

Yep, females stop having babies at 50, though males continue til death...hmmm.

They do stop having babies, but you can still improve their parenting skills. I swear I get skill points faster just having them kiss repeatedly and interrupting any walks to the love shack, which is just fluff anyway as the deed is done with a kiss alone. Within about five minutes I had 2 old geezers who were Master Parents! Not sure it works that well with all of them as some seem to master things faster than others, but I have managed several elders this way without losing the services of the women for 2 years at a time.

I got my First Esteemed Elder and Jack-of-All-Trades this way. (Or should I say "Jane"-of-All-Trades? Was a woman.) When I reached my first population stop at 17, I got tired of getting her to constantly tell stories to the children to build up the Parenting Skill. She was a runner, so it was hard to find her. So I set her preferred skill to Parenting and ignored her for awhile.

Later, when one of my Founder Women reached 50, I did that trick, kiss, grab, kiss, grab, etc., etc. After about a minute or so, it said "Esteemed Elder".