Route (WIP)

The notes presented here aim to explain the fastest route for each chapter of Anna's quest in detail. In order to go fast you should be familiar with the few hotkeys this game has to offer:

* K: Use telekenesis
* Esc: Skip dialogue / cutscene
* Mousewheel: Open & close inventory

Finally before diving into things I'd like to say that, obviously, no guide is perfect. If you spot any mistakes or if there is anything you'd like me to change in this guide please tell me---either in the Daedalic speedrun discord (linked in this game's navigation bar on the left) or message me directly (my discord tag is toca#0527 ).

#Game mechanics to look out for

[you can be too fast and then stuff breaks]
[skip stuff not only with esc but also left click sometimes]

#Chapter 1: A Little Experiment

Click on door
Click on chair
Take art stuff, scissors, spoon
Use telekenesis on spoon
Combine spoon with camera
Take ball
Talk to Ben (hold escape during it)
Use scissors with unicorn
Click on unicorn
Use scissors with ball
Use horn with machine
Use half ball with helmet
Telekenesis on camera
Telekenesis on door
Leave room
Go downstairs
Click on door

#Chapter 2: The Great Escape

Leave room
Right click on sink
Go downstairs
Click on carpet, then on drain
Open left drawer
Open right drawer
Go upstairs
Take witch's hat
Color mold yellow
Give yellow mold to rat
Go to bedroom
Pick up lens
Use scissors with curtain
Telekenesis on speaker
Pick up pillow
Combine pillow with stuffing and red velvet
Combine microphone with recorder
Combine spoon with string
Go downstairs
Combine key with painting
Combine velvet pillow with cat
Take diamond from cat
Combine recorder with door
Combine diamond & recorder with safe
Look at the four books
Open drain with telekenesis
Look down drain
Use telekenesis on thumb, pointer finger, little finger (in this order)
Pick up the handkerchief with spoon on string
Leave the drain
Take the ring
Take the cork
Go upstairs
Take the pipe
Cork the open pipe
Look at Joringel
Combine the ring with Joringel
Go upstairs
Click on tap
Click on sink
Go to bedroom
Look at blueprints
Combine party trick book with witch hat
Combine Handkerchief chain with paperweight
User Handkerchief with bed
Click on the shelf
Use telekenesis with weak spot (top right)
Use weighted handkerchief with roof hole
Go to the attic
Take mirror and baby dragon
Climb up to the roof
Combine lens with moon
Combine amulet with lens
Combine mirror with raven
Go back to the attic
Make a hole in the roof with telekenesis
Look outside (give you raven's feather)
Go to the basement
Combine baby dragon with crayon
Combine Raven's feather with cauldron
Combine witch's hair with cauldron
Combine fiery dragon with cauldron
Combine charged amulet with cauldron
Go to bedroom
Use telekenesis on wand
Click on branches #1, 3, 2, 4 (when numbered top to bottom)

#Chapter 3: The Trials of Wunderhorn

Right click on tavern sign
Select the first dialogue option three times
Leave the tavern
Right click on alley sign
Go through all dialogue options
Telekenesis on sheet
Leave alley
Go inside store
Give diamond to shopkeeper, then leave
Go to mill
Try to enter mill
Try to enter woods
Return to city
Click on haystack
Enter tavern
Talk to Gottfried
Talk to Bartender about Gottfried
Telekenesis on pipes
Combine dragon with coals
Go outside
Use fountain lever
Talk to blacksmith
Go to lake
Talk to Hans (1, 1, 2, leave)
Go to mill
Enter mill
Click on stool
Talk to Hansel (2, leave)
Use telekenesis on hammer
Combine hammer with support beam
Use telekenesis on trapdoor mechanism twice
Use telekenesis on exit
Enter basement
Combine clothesline with trapdoor mechanism
Leave and enter the mill normally
Click on stool
Click on rope
Go downstairs
Talk to witch (1, 1, 5, 3, 2, 1)
Return to town
Talk to blacksmith (1, 1, 2, leave)
Go to forest path
Talk to Reynard (2, 2, 2)
Return to town
Combine broken lantern with blacksmith
Talk to musicians (1, 1, leave)
Right-click on the mill sign
Go into woods
Right-click on tree stump
Left-click anywhere
Combine scissors with stingy vines
Go to thieves' house
Click on house
Combine stingy vines with needle
Combine needle and thread with torn bedsheet
Combine bedsheet with scissors
Combine bedsheet with eyeholes with lit lantern
Combine fake ghost with house
Click on fake ghost
Return to town
Enter church
Talk to Theodor (1, 1, 1, leave)
Right-click on windows
Talk to musicians (2)
Click on house
Go back to city
Enter store
Use telekenesis on toy monkey
Combine old violin with violin
Leave, go to lake
Combine violin with Weisse Frauen
Talk to sorceress (3, 3, 3)
Use telekenesis on lamp post
Combine fiery dragon with lamp post
Go to mill
Enter & take spell book
Enter church
Click on organ
Skip puzzle (If you want to do it, it's 2 3 1 3 4 5 6 5 // E Fis D Fis A H Cis H)
Use telekenesis on bell
Combine baby dragon with red dragon
Click on door
Click on rocks
Use telekenesis on window twice
Click on cupboard
Click on fireplace
Click on cupboard

#Chapter 4: A Damsel's Wager With the Devil

Talk to prison guard (then hold ESC)
1, 1, 1, 3 (then Reynard) 1, 1, 1
Click on mattress twice
Use telekenesis on spring
Use lockpick with door
Take watermelon
Take chillis
Take blender
Go to dungeon gates
Talk to admin troll (1, 1, 3)
Go to hallway, then to gallows
Use telekenesis on axe
Pick up can
Pick up napkin
Go to mansion gates
Talk to big troll (1, 1, 1, 2)
Go to gallows, then to utility closet
Combine chillis with bowl
Take torch
Combine blender with human blender
Take whetstone
Go to gallows
Combine your torch with the torch on the right wall
Talk to executioner
Combine whetstone with guillotine
Combine watermelon with guillotine
Click on guillotine
Go to cages
Operate levers: 2down 2down 1down 3down
Take honey jar
Go directly to dungeon gates
Talk to admin troll (1, 2)
Go to hallway
Combine napkin with sick troll
Combine can with water cooler
Go to gallows
Combine lit torch with bracket
Combine can of water with old prisoner
Talk to Wilfred (1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
Go to Anna's cell
Combine flower drawing with grate
Go to utility closet
Combine honey jar with blender
Combine melon half with blender
Combine snotty napkin with blender
Combine flower with blender
Take blender
Go to mansion gates
Combine tainted drink with big troll
Talk to devil (1, 1, 1, 3)
Click on mailbox
Combine notice of termination with Wilfred
Talk to Wilfred (1, 1)
Go to dungeon gates
Combine notice of termination with admin troll
Talk to admin troll (1, 3)
Use telekenesis on ink pot
Go directly to cages
Operate levers: 1up 3up
Go directly to dungeon gates
Right-click on file cabinet
Use telekenesis on file cabinet
Use telekenesis on ink pot
Go directly to cages
Combine honey jar with papers
Go to hallway
Click on door
Go inside cell
Talk to Wizard (1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4)
Go inside cell
Take meat
Go to mansion gates
Talk to big troll
Right-click on door
Click on door
Talk to devil (2, 2, 3, 1, 2)
Right-click on door
Hold Esc (1, 1, 1)

#Chapter 5: The Judgement of Queen Voigt

Use telekenesis on broken spike
Pick up spike
Go to the far left of the screen
Combine spike with hay
Look over wall
Use telekenesis on fruit
Go back to entrance
Use telekenesis on spear
Enter the castle (1)
Go to cellar
Talk to Cindy (2, 3, 4)
Click on sewing box
Leave the castle
Talk to swan prince (2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1)
Take glass slipper
Enter the castle
Go to pigeon tower
Leave, go to storage door
Go to princess' bedroom
Click on magazines
Leave, go to kitchen
Leave
Talk to Jester (1, 1, 1, 3)
Go to kitchen
Use telekenesis on Jester
Talk to Jester (1, 2)
Combine oversized dress with knife
Talk to cook (1, 3, 2)
Take Nightingale
Go to princess' bedroom
Use telekenesis on Jester
Take glass slipper
Go to pigeon tower
Take ladder
Combine thimble coupon with gold broche
Combine thimble mail order with yarn
Combine balloon with pigeon
Skip puzzle (if you want to do it, it's: "Click on all the shutters except for the most left one. Put a balloon to the left of the pigeon, then above him, then to the right of him. Now put a balloon under the pigeon, then to the right, and the last one above him)
Combine thimble mail order with pigeon
Go to cellar
Combine Nightingale with coal
Give gold thimble to Cindy
Go to cellar, leave right away
Go to castle entrance
Combine ladder with top left window
Combine nightingale with owl
Go to kitchen
Put owl in birdcage
Go to storage room
Talk to Ben (3)
Click on painting twice
Click on painting scrap
Right-click on blackboard
Combine scrap of painting with portrait
Combine blackboard message with portrait message
Go to kitchen
Use painting with knife
Go to storage room
Combine adjusted painting with frame
Click on cage
Use telekenesis on Ben
Go to castle entrance
Talk to Reynard (1)
Click door
Combine Winfriede's message with shards of glass
Use telekenesis on shards of glass
Leave
Click on red dragon
Go to storage room
Click on drawer
Use telekenesis on shard piece
Leave, talk to red dragon
Enter house
Combine shard piece with shards of glass
Talk to Janike (3)
Take flowers
Leave
Click on heater
Take coal
Take bellows
Take chalk
Talk to Dorothea (1)
Click middle desk
Right-click stuff in desk
Talk to Dorothea (1)

#Chapter 6: Two Sisters in a faraway School

Talk to Janike
Go to treehouse
Click on stones in this order: 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1
Talk to Hans (1, 1, 2, 4)
Combine bellows with dry ice
Combine coal with baby dragon
Take baby dragon
Click on books
Look out window
Right-click on biology book
Combine gas-filled bellows with beehive
Leave treehouse
Take beehive
Enter treehouse
Give beehive to Hans
Go to school courtyard
Talk to Jacob (1, 1, 2)
Enter school
Click on right desk
Click stuff in desk
Combine baby dragon with heater
Talk to Hans (4)
Take key
Leave
Go to courtyard
Talk to Jorinde (2, 3)
Combine shed key with shed
Take gloves
Combine crumpled letter with Jacob
Talk to Joringel (1, 2, 3)
Combine flowers with Joringel
Enter treehouse
Combine gloves with dry ice
Talk to Hans (4)
Combine dry ice with tea
Go to courtyard
Combine beehive with Wilhelm (twice)
Take berries
Go inside treehouse
Combine chalk with Hans
Combine yo-yo with Hans
Combine flowers with Hans
Combine berries with Hans
Go to courtyard
Talk to Jorinde

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Anna's Quest

Chapter 2: The Great Escape

Chapter 3: The Trials of Wunderhorn

Chapter 4: A Damsel's Wager With the Devil

Chapter 5: The Judgement of Queen Voigt

Chapter 6: Two Sisters in a faraway School

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