Frog Skip

Hi all, wanted to share a new skip I found in STS1 that was just utilized in my newest run that saves roughly 15 seconds.

In the second act of the game there's a puzzle where you need to pick up a tadpole to unlock a dialogue option with a frog blocking your path. By looking at the water 2x at a certain cadence, you can actually delete the frog and can immediately move on to picking up the mushroom to move into the tower portion of the game.

Here's an explainer video that was kindly clipped by Darkshoxx: [https://www.twitch.tv/thewoofs/clip/GorgeousArtisticBoarHassaanChop-XXEY_DuulnLC1WRS](https://www.twitch.tv/thewoofs/clip/GorgeousArtisticBoarHassaanChop-XXEY_DuulnLC1WRS "https://www.twitch.tv/thewoofs/clip/GorgeousArtisticBoarHassaanChop-XXEY_DuulnLC1WRS")

It's worth noting that you do not need to leave the screen as i do on the clip- it looks like the frog simply ceases to exist after the trick and you can just find the mushrooms under the sprite.

Jury is still out if this sort of thing can be used elsewhere in the game, but either way wanted to share for other runners and hopefully other applications can be found!

Just in case the Twitch VOD goes MIA, which we know can happen at any time apparently, here's my latest PB which has the skip, which should be timestamped to start right at the trick (40:29 on the timeline): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYLLt0J6ZAQ?t=2429

Simon the Sorcerer Quick Guide

Walkthrough Notes
Cottage
-Scissors in draw
-Magnet

Blacksmith
-Rope
-Clapper

Pub
-Pickup Matches
-Cut Beard

Barbarian
-Remove splinter

Witch Hut
- Take Bucket

Stump
-Talk to

Troll Bridge
-Talk to
-Pickup sign

Oaf
-Water, leave and return for seeds

Tower
-Use Clapper

Behind Village Cottage
- Plant seeds get melon

Druid House
- Pickup Ladders
- Pickup Jar
- Pickup Cold Remedy

Beekeepers House
- Use pig on door
- Pickup Smokebox
- Pickup Hat
- Use Smokebox on the hive
- Pickup Wax

Pub
-Order drink
- Use wax on the barrel
- Pickup barrel

Owl
- Walk past Owl
- Pickup Feather

Bard
- Use watermelon on sousaphone

Goblin Doors
- Pickup List

Mines
- Pickup and look at rock
- Wear Beard
- Password Beer
- Give beer to guard
- Use the feather on sleeping Dwarf
- Pickup Key
- Pickup hook
- Use key
- Renter and give beer voucher
- Get Gem

Woodcutter
- Talk and get the metal detector

Mountains (Wizard with staff)
- Use the metal detector

Giant
- Use sousaphone

Dragon
- Use Cold remedy
- Pickup Fire Extinguisher
- Use hook on bolder
- Combine Magnet with Rope
- Use Magnet with Rope on hole 3x times

Behind Dragon cave
- collect rock

Village Dodgy Geezer
- Sell/give gem for 20

Blacksmith
-Crack rock

Shop
- Give Shopping list
- Buy Hammer
- Buy White Spirit

Archaeologist hole
- Give Fossil

Swampling
- Attend Party
- Use jar on stew
- Keep eating
- move chest
- Walk over the plank
- Use the nail on the plank
- Collect Frogsbane

Mountains (Wizard with staff)
- look at the dirt
- Pickup Milrith Ore

Mountains (Talking Tree)
- Talk to the tree
- Use white spirit
- Talk to the tree

Blacksmith
- Use Milrith Ore to make Axe

Woodcutter
- Give Axe
- Pickup Pin
- Use Fire Extinguisher
- Move hook
- Pickup mahogany

Stump
- Talk to and get woodworm

Tolkien Society
- Vines to get down
- Talk to Golum
- Give Swamp Stew jar
- Get the fishing rod
- Get Ring

Tower
- Use woodworm
- Use ladders
- open tomb
- Go back and open the tomb
- Pickup loose bandages
- Pickup magic staff

Pub
- Talk to wizards
- Talk to wizards again
- Say you so anything
- Give Staff
- Give money

Shop
- Open Box

Goblins Camp
- Open Box
- Look at boxes
- Pickup Spellbook
- Pickup Rat bone
- Look at the spellbook
- Use paper on the door
- Use rat bone on lock
- Pickup paper
- Use the key on the door and open
- Pickup Bucket

Torture chamber
- Pickup brand
- Pickup Mints
- Open Iron Maiden
- Talk to Druid
- Remove ring
- Talk to Druid and do the test
- Keep Talking to Druid all options 1
- Use bucket on Druid
- Use brand on Druid
- Get in Iron Maiden
- Wait
- Open Iron Maiden
- Pickup hacksaw
- Use hacksaw on bars

Druid House
- Pickup to Druid
- Give Frogsbane to frog

Witch house
- Open Door
- Pickup Broom
- Fight witch with spells 1,2 and 3 (might have to repeat)
-1 alakazam = Snake
-2 hocus pocus = cat
-3 sausages = otter
-4 abracadabra = mouse
- Once won use spell 4 abracadabra to escape the dragon
- Escape using mouse hole

Mountains
- Use the pin on the hole to climb

Snowman
- Consume Mints

Tower of DOOM Entrance
- Walk across
- use broom
- Consume potion

Garden (shrunken)
- Pickup leaf
- Walk inside the bucket to get the match
- Pickup stone
- Pickup lily
- Use match on lily
- Use leaf on math
- Pickup seed
- Use stone on seed
- Go back to shore
- Use oil on tap
- Use hair on tap
- Cross puddle

Frog
- Look at the water
- Pickup tadpole
- Talk to frog
- Option 2 tadpole get it
- Pickup mushroom
- Consume mushroom

Garden (Full size)
- Pickup branch
- Open tower

Tower Main entrance
- Enter tower
- Enter tower again
- Use branch on chest
- Pickup spear
- Pickup shield
- Go down

Tower Basement
- Use spear on the skull
- Pickup Skull
- Pickup chest
- Move lever
- Use chest on
- Move lever
- Move lever
- Pickup candles
- Go up

Tower Main entrance
Go up

Tower Bedroom
- Pickup Pouch
- Pickup sock
- Pickup Book
- Pickup wand
- Look at the book
- Combine sock and pouch
- Use the pouch on the hole on the stairs
- Get mouse
- Go up

Tower Lab
- Pickup Book
- Pickup Chemical
- Look at the book
- Use Chemical on the shield
- Use shield on the hook
- Go down

Tower Bedroom
- Talk to the mirror
- Ask to watch lab
- Go up

Tower Lab
- Talk to Demons
- Talk to Demons about why they are dissatisfied
- Talk to Demons again and say draw square and lets rock
- Walk to the teleporter
- Choose Fiery Pits of Rondor

Fiery Pits of Rondor
- Pickup pebbles
- Pickup sapling
- Talk to attendant
- Look at the brochure
- Combine sapling with the rubber band
- Use catapult on the bell
- Pickup matches
- Pickup floor wax
- Use the wand on Sordid
- Use matches on pits
- Use the wand on pits
- Use floor wax on Sordid
- Move Sordid

Game Over

Nome	Autore
Frog Skip	thewoofs 12 days ago
Simon the Sorcerer Quick Guide	Dr_Ravenholm 4 years ago