Where's an Egg?

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A renegade cop with nothing to lose and an egg on his mind.

From Foreign Lands

"In this hard-bolied adventure game, you must help the Boise police force find a missing egg. Not in Mancuso's garage? Try Brodermaker's gymbag. Everyone's a suspect when 'Where's an Egg?' is the game that you are playing. And that's this game!!" -Videlectrix

Where's an Egg? is a game by Videlectrix.

Date: July 16, 2007

Page Title: Where's an Egg?

Instructions

The object of the game is to find the egg that one of the suspects is hiding. The task is a variation on the Knights and Knaves puzzle, where suspects either always lie or always tell the truth. After you think you know who or where the egg is, you go to that location and shoot the suspect, who will give up the egg if you have guessed correctly.

After clicking on the title screen, you are presented with several locations in a city. Clicking on the locations will review a person with an item. When you get a new item, it will appear in the bottom of the screen.

Suspects, locations, and items

Please note that the items, characters, and locations are random for each game. They are not given in any particular order.

Suspects	Locations	Items
Blonde woman	Aquarium		Beer
Blue hat man	Beach		Bomb
Butler	City		Cat
Kid Speedy	Desert		Gymbag
Maid	Forest		Monkey wrench
John McEnroe	Movie theater		Pencil
Mechanic	Museum		Potted plant
Old Woman	Pier		Slingshot
Red hat man	Arctic		Strawberry

Endings

Lose screen

If you run out of time or shoot three characters who do not have the egg, the game ends. The character who did have the egg is shown running with it through the area they were in, and the main character is shown in Siberia wearing prison clothes and a ball-and-chain. He quickly turns into a skeleton.

Win screen

If you successfully shoot the character who has the egg, a policeman awards you with a badge in front of the police station. The screen pans up to the sky, where fireworks shoot off. If the game was completed with enough time left on the clock, different spaceships fly through the sky:

• 901-940 seconds left — one spaceship
• 941-970 seconds left — two spaceships
• 971 or more seconds left — three spaceships, the last of which is exited by a waving cosmonaut

Fun Facts

Trivia

• This game was released more than two and a half years after its description was featured on the Videlectrix website. The main page message announcing its release read: 'new' videlectrix game!
• The language used in the game is Russian, and is understandable to a native speaker. For example, the Russian title on the game box is correct, but used the diminutive form of egg, rather than the more usual translation of "where's an egg?", Где яичко? (Ghedeie Yaichekao?).

Remarks

• A page of the manual was also made available at the same time as the game was released.

Inside References

• This is another mention of eggs and alcohol.
• The cop wields a gun.
• All of the characters lack visible arms, except for the main character, who reveals an arm only when he shoots someone, and the policeman in the good ending, who reveals an arm only when he awards a badge to the main character.
• Some Type of Online Auction was previously used to sell a half-eaten breakfast burrito in english paper.
• One of the characters resembles Kid Speedy.
• This is another instance of dying.

Real-World References

• This game looks similar to the point-and-click computer game "Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure", in which a Private Investigator who has seen better days needs to clear his name when he is on the spot for murder.
• Boise is the capital city of the US state Idaho.
• Brodermaker is a reference to video game company Brøderbund, makers of the Carmen Sandiego games.
• This game is also very similar, in some aspects, to the early Carmen Sandiego games.
• In the ending sequence, a satellite similar to Sputnik flies across the screen.

Fast Forward

• Mancuso is later mentioned in Biz Cas Fri 3.

External Links

• Play Where's an Egg?
• Play Where's an Egg? (Flash file)
• View the auction for the instructions
• Forum Thread: Re: Where's An Egg?