506 Episode Point List

Barnett College (15)

Get past the students by calming them down (third dialog choice) (5)
Get past the students by telling them about the geology professor (10)



Venice (30)

Enter the catacombs (10)
Pull the plug to empty the pool in the catacombs (5)
Get past the statues in the catacombs (5)
Open the xylophone door (5)
Look at the shield of the dead knight (5)



Brunwald Castle (176)

Talk past Butler (5)
Bluff past guard A (2) (drunk guard)
Knock out guard A (1)
Bluff past guard B (5) (do not knock this guard out afterwards - he needs to catch you at the end)
Bluff past guard C (5)
Knock out guard C (3)
Bluff past guard E (8)
Knock out guard E (5)
Bluff past guard F (8)
Knock out guard F (5)
Bluff past guard G (8)
Knock out guard G (5)
Bluff past guard H (15) (guard in alarm room, give him Mein Kempf)
Bluff past guard I (8)
Knock out guard I (5)
Bluff past guard J (15) (Biff)
Bluff past guard K (8)
Knock out guard K (5)
Open the vault in the castle (10)
Disable the castle alarm system (25)
Whip the loose brick on the castle exterior (5)
Open Henry's locked door (5)
Escape from the chairs in the castle (15)



Berlin (45)

Bluff past checkpoint 1 (5)
Give Hitler the travel pass to sign (40)



Biplane (50)

The key to this part is getting shot down by the very first plane so you can go through every available checkpoint. 

Steal tickets from the man in the airport (5)
Start the biplane (10)
Bluff past checkpoint 2 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 3 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 4 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 5 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 6 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 7 (5)
Bluff past checkpoint 8 (5)



Grail Temple (190)

The only thing you need to worry about is the final section after saving your father. Everything else before that is mandatory. 

Pass the first Grail trial (the Breath of God) (20)
Pass the second Grail trial (the Name of God) (20)
Pass the third Grail trial (the Path of God) (20)
Get the Grail back to Henry (30)
Pick up the Grail before Elsa gets it, give it to the Grail Knight (100)



Sum of totals:

Barnett College (15)
Venice (30)
Brunwald Castle (176)
Berlin (45)
Bi-Plane (50)
Grail Temple (190)
GRAND TOTAL = 506


NOTES:  Bluff means talk your way through a guard. Some guards can be bluffed multiple ways (but will give out the same set of points for being bluffed either way). Checkpoint 2 is the first checkpoint after getting shot down as the numbering scheme includes the checkpoint you go through getting into Berlin. Guard letters are ordered by the order you should meet them in when going through main routes of the castle. It is possible to miss a guard by talking alternative routes or walking through a corridor when the guard is patrolling away from you.

Solutions to the Holy Grail puzzle

Getting the identity of the Holy Grail might be one of the worst puzzles in any LucasArts game. To do that, you need to check the inscriptions in the room on the right of the wooden plug in Venice, and check the vault at the castle. Used the hook and the whip with the wooden plug before going to the right? You can't check the inscriptions. Forgot to pick up the painting at Henrÿ́'s? You can't enter the vault. Didn't give the painting to the guard on the second floor? You can't enter the vault.

Also, chances are the painting in the vault looks nothing like the grail you're supposed to choose. No, the only thing that matters is whether the grail in the painting is glowing or not.

Oh, and after that, you had to check the grail diary to guess the right one. But not the in-game grail diary, but a physical one, which was originally 63 pages long (13 pages long in later releases).

Anyway, first, let's skip checking the physical diary. Here's what Indy can say when checking the inscriptions and the grails you get:

* Either the Irish poem, found in an abbey in Brittany, or the newspaper clipping from "the Celtic Scholar". If the painting is glowing, it's the "Wooden cup carved with holy symbols" (grail number 4). If it isn't glowing, it's the "Olive wooden cup on silver tray" (grail number 1).
* Either that cable Codirolli sent to him from Italy or that excerpt from the journal of a Byzantine merchant. If the painting is glowing, it's the "Large ceramic drinking cup" (grail number 3). If it isn't glowing, it's the "Plain metal cup" (grail number 7).
* Either that Welsh verse Taliesin wrote, or Sir Richard Burton's tale that Lady Elanora wrote of. If the painting is glowing, it's the "Silver bowl, carved with spells of blessing" (grail number 5). If it isn't glowing, it's the "Ceramic bowl with unknown writing" (grail number 8).
* Either the account of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, or that newspaper column about the "New Gospel". If the painting is glowing, it's the "Plain, shallow bronze vessel" (grail number 9). If it isn't glowing, it's the "Brass chalice inscribed in Greek" (grail number 6).
* Either the Persian manuscript Al-Jawf sent to Dad, or that letter from Staubig about the Book of Merlin. If the painting is glowing, it's the "Dented, shallow pewter bowl with engraving (grail number 2). If it isn't glowing, it's the "Pewter chalice with Aramaic inscription" (grail number 10).

Now, checking the painting takes about 30 seconds, and that's a lot. So you might want to skip this part and get a 50% chance of getting the right grail at the end. If you do so, between the two possible options, getting the grail that's closer to the Holy Water is faster, so choose that one. That means that, depending on the inscription, you would choose grail number 4, number 7, number 8, number 9 or number 10. Good luck, and remember: it's OK if you pick up the wrong grail; sooner or later you'll get a run that's better than this one anyway ;).

You could also skip checking the inscriptions, which saves about 10 seconds but lowers your chance of success from 50% to 10%. The main issue is that this isn't the only relevant RNG in the whole game. For instance, in Venice, you get a 4% chance of getting both the right slab and the metal post in the first room you enter. Since that happens very early in the run, I'd rather grind for that and take the 50% chance for the grail. But once you've reached the point where you've optimized everything else in the run, going for that 10-second timesave could be an option.

Finally, if you're playing on DOSBox, you can skip all this. Shout-outs to mikeSpeedyAdventures for finding out. Quoting Mike:

> When playing on DOSBox, you can just hold Esc after you start the game with INDY256 and you'll get the same RNG for pretty much all the important things. The dice rolls that decide outcomes for the grail and puzzles happen right when you gain control over Indy.

So, if you hold Esc after you start the game on DOSBox, you'll get the brass chalice inscribed in Greek (grail number 6).

Name	Autor
506 Episode Point List	Non-Slim_Jim 6 years ago
Solutions to the Holy Grail puzzle	saruya 9 months ago