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 Hi. Had my first big glitch and have installed the update on ipad2. Have the plunger in the shooter, and can get oil can in position and oil, but when I come down from the oil can control thing, i just shake my head when I try to use the plunger shooter. I tried clicking the dog and tired it from multiple spots including far right.  Any thoughts on how to move on from here?  Thx

First combine the plunger and shooter together while they're still in The Inventory.  Then, when you're down by the water edge and the dog is lapping up the oil you gave him pull the combined shooter/plunger out of The Inventory and wave it over the dog.

That ought to do it.   ;)

Thanks Alex.  That is what I've been trying over and over again. Isn't working. Even went back, turned the iPad off rebooted and tried it again and no luck. Can't pull the combined plunger/shooter out while dog is lapping. Just get head shaking. Any other thoughts?

That is Weird!  Does this walkthrough page suggest anything you may not have tried?
http://f.cl.ly/items/3E1v3t00042r3j2g213Z/Catch%20the%20Dog%20Part%201.png

Hi! I have found a similar glitch on MacOS/ AppStore/ Lion. When up in the tower nothing happens when trying to move the oil-can. When pressing the button after turning the dial to four, the oil-can stays still and no sound etc is played. Same after restarting the game.
I surely can't be the only one?! I've checked the spoiler and also spoiler-movies and I do exactly as supposed to. I use Flashplayer 10.0.32.18 (without hardware acceleration as instructed). MacOS 10.7.1

/Daniel

same problem... with iPad 2...  can't get the gun and plunger (which ARE connected) out of inventory to shoot the dog.
any ideas??
thx!

Are you running Veresion 1.2?

link: http://amanita-design.net/forum/index.php/topic,2804.0.html (http://amanita-design.net/forum/index.php/topic,2804.0.html)

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Hey Everyone,

It would be helpful to get forum members' input here:  Did the Version 1.2 patch for the iPAD port of Machinarium solve your playability problems?

Hi I just downloaded this for my IPad and I an having the same problem with the dog and Plunger gun.

We haven't gotten any feedback from others that were stuck at this point so we have to assume that eventually you will find your way past this problem.  Good luck.  (we'd appreciate if you'd do us the favor of writing back when you're through so others will know how to get on with the game)

Hi there.

Unfortunately I'm stuck at the same point. I have the plunger gun and can attract the dog to the oil but nothing I try will get the gun to work - I just get a head shake each time.

This is on an iPad 3, just in case it turns out to be relevant, and I found the plunger before the gun.

Hopefully there's something that can be done. I'm going to try a previous save and see if I have more luck second time.

Very quick follow up....
I had a save from just before I collected the gun and plunger so I went back to that, collected the gun first and combined them again and it just worked.

Very odd, but now I'm past the problem.

Oh, and I absolutely love this game. I've not played anything with a point and click interface since my Amiga days and this is a real treat.  ;D

THANK YOU for that follow up, Doc!  My method has always assumed that it was just a matter of going through a level once more to get it right.  

Have fun with the rest of the game.   ;D

Edit...
I wonder if that detail about how you "collected the gun first and combined them again" is important. (?)  Perhaps the glitch is caused if you get the plunger first and THEN get the gun.  (?)

YES!  And frustrating. I love the game but this was bad design. Everything to this point makes sense of why things happen. But now I need to load a much earlier version and do all this again. Not cool for a big fan of the game. First major flaw. Not sure why it wasn't fixed. The first door is plunger.  Why woukd you do that to a user?  You said it yourself in this thread as your last edit. IPad 3 btw.

I'm stuck at the same point - have tried collecting gun then plunger, and plunger then gun, but it doesn't make any difference. It gets SO tiresome trying things over and over again, when you KNOW that you've done everything right  :(

I'd really been enjoying the game up to this point, but this glitch has taken the shine off it for me..... after experimenting on several occasions and getting nowhere with something which ought to work straight away, I've begun to think 'Good grief, I've just wasted an hour of my life doing that!!!' :'(

Really?  Are you sure about that?

An earlier poster said "collected the gun first and combined them again and it just worked".

Please try that again and write back.

Now I'm going to seem like a real idiot (but nothing to do with the order of the gun and plunger, as I had tried that both ways round previously)! Someone earlier on the thread had mentioned hovering the gun over the dog, and I had done that before too, but I've just had another go, and this time hovered it over the dog for longer than I'd done before, and it WORKED - I can hardly believe it!

I think what had derailed me before was the idea that the robot could only interact with things very close to it - so I had been trying desperately to get him to accept/swallow the gun and plunger by hovering it around him. I'd only gone over to the dog briefly a few times previously, and obviously hadn't hovered it there long enough for it to 'take' on the dog.

Hurray, and thank-you to the person who posted that hint!  :D

Guys,

Keep the following in mind (gave me à headache):
- please make sure to combine the gun and the plunger!!

The reason it doesn't work, isn't a design flaw. It's because it looks like the gun and plunger are allready combined when you collect them (the way it's drawn in the inventory). So combine them (even if you think the are allready combined.

This should solve this prolem.

Thanks Seffen99, you make a good point!
The gun and plunger are quite obviously seen as separate items in the inventory when playing on a full-sized computer screen but they become less recognizable as separate items as your screen size is diminished for iPADs, Androids, etc.

Just "combine them even if you think they are already combined" and you'll be fine.  :~)