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Mustard Café

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After defeating Wendy on Treasure Island, you can visit the Mustard Café again, go to the big pit and jump in. After you wake up, you must first find your buddy Huey. Run to the rear right and regularly flee to the small platforms to avoid the pokeys floating in the sand. Only when you have reached Huey, you can not avoid a fight against three Pokeys. Avoid jump attacks and use some powerful hammer cards. Note that without Huey you do not have a paint and should therefore take already colored cards.

Run to the left and hit Huey with the hammer. Next, rattle off the four blocks of question marks that float in the corners of the room, jumping constantly from one point to the next to avoid a fight with more pokeys. Then control the starting point of the area and color the pipe. Try to climb through it and you find that the exit is blocked by a stone.

Control the bright platform further back, stand on it and press the cut button to remove the stone. Return to the green pipe, climb in and move to the right.


There you have to run over several green pipes, some of which turn 90 degrees every few seconds and throw you in the sand or to the opponents. You can prevent this by jumping up right when the gray end of the pipe starts to wobble. Once you reach the right side of the area, jump up and carefully balance over the green pipe to your left. Remove the stain, return and climb into the pipe.

Jump to the gastrouru and talk to him. As soon as his parasol disappears into the sand, you jump past the pokeys obliquely to the left and save yourself on the platform to your left. Go through the door and jump to the platform to your right. There the gastrouru will wait for you while you repair the green pipe system.

You actually have to remove or color five white spots. There are two white spots on the upward pipe, which is why you march there carefully and watch out for the pokeys jumping around. Fortunately, they don’t attack you when they touch you, and “only” throw you down in the sand.

Furthermore, you have to color one of the dark gray stones that holds two of the pipes together. Jump down into the sand for this, dodge the pokeys and dye the stone after you have jumped on it. After that, only the two spots are missing, which are relatively difficult to see. One is on the right side of the right vertical tube and the other is on the left side of the left.

Return to the gastrouru and climb into the green pipe.


If you have removed all the white spots, you should land at the other end of the area. Go through the door and save. Run to the left and hit the brittle wall behind which is a card. Color the tube to your left and go all the way to the left until you see the question mark block in the niche.

Run back to the right and stand so that the two gray blocks can be seen directly on top of each other. Presses the cut button, removes the area above the pipe and marches to the left. Color the other end of the pipe, bounce back down and go to the gastrouru. Climb with him through the first tube you colored and enter the next area.

Go back to the orange tube until you are kidnapped by snifits and thrown into prison. Strike the hammer into the rear right corner of your cell and stand in the emerging pit until you drop one floor down. Go to the left, take care of some snifits and hit the bright spot on the left, whereupon another pit is created. Jump into the next deeper level and hammer against the back wall. Pull on the rope, loot the question mark block and move to the right.


Hit the poster and pull on the rope. Go to the niche that opens and hit another pit in the ground. Jump in and go right to the cell. Fight the Snifit, who thanks to his whistle can always call in new opponents. Use particularly strong cards to defeat him in the first move along with his gang of four.

Unfortunately, you cannot open the cell because you lack the security key. Jump down to your left and move all the way to the left. Open the door, pull out the security key under the sofa and eliminate the three snifits. Go with the security key to the elevator and drive to the third floor. Once again drop through the pit in the niche and open the cell to free the gastrouru. Then crawl through the green pipe and go to the left. Stand in the sand and fall, whereupon you are on the first floor.

Remove the tape and take the key to your right. Run all the way to the left and smash the two boxes that contain two cards. Drive to the third floor, drop through the pit in the niche and go back through the green pipe. Now run all the way back to the orange tube and break the stone. Climb through the pipe, walk towards the door to your right and then jump over the boxes to the yellow star. This opens the way to Toad Trainworks.Toad Trainworks