Solution to Gold Rush:
 Start: South
 Your house: Use key (twice), enter
 Inside: Read book, get photo, close desk, get paper, read paper, leave
 Your house: Sell house, west
 Gazebo: Get flower, get coin, west, north
 Bank: Enter, get money, enter account number, leave, north
 Warehouse: Enter, read poster, exit, south, west twice
 Shops: Enter left shop, buy fruit, buy vegetables, buy peas, exit,
  enter right shop, buy net, buy shovel, buy rope, exit, south, east twice
 Newspaper: Enter, talk man (bottom left), leave job, go to your room (upper
  right), read clippings, exit, south
 Graveyard: East, read grave (at both your parents' graves), put flowers, 
  west twice, north, east twice
 Your house: Talk man, yes (return and try again later if there's nobody 
  willing to buy your house)
 Tickets: For the Cape and Panama routes go east, buy a ticket, pay, then go
  west three times. For the Coach route go west twice, then south, then west
  twice again. Enter the Coach Travel building, buy a ticket, pay, then go
  east twice and north
 Post office: Enter, get mail (return and try again later if there is no
  mail), get letter, open letter, read letter, read postmark, look stamp,
  remove stamp, exit
 Leave town: For the Cape and Panama routes go north twice and show your
  ticket to the men on the ship, for the Coach route go south, then west, 
  talk to the man in the livery store, show him your ticket and enter the
  stage.
Cape route:
 Deck: Eat fruit, east, talk left man, next scene
 During storm: Get string, west twice, get paperclip, next scene
 After storm: West, down, east, down, get stick, up, walk to engine, get
  metal, next scene
 Lack of food: West, down, east, get pig, west, up, catch fish
Panama route:
 Jungle: Wear net
 Natives: Yes
 Man with book: Talk man, walk down path, get vine, get off, east
 Three paths: Take the northmost path, east
 Swamp: Walk through the swamp so that you don't sink (save often!), east
Coach route:
 Camp: Talk man (left of the group of three), give money, south
 Horses: Get horses, mature, return to camp
 Camp: Talk man, east, talk man (next to tree), north
 Plains: Look plains (return and try again later if there's little grass),
  south, talk man
California:
 City: Enter building on the right corner, get in coach
 Fort: Enter, walk to shop, enter, get shovel, give coin, walk to forge
 Forge: Enter, talk man, yes, yes, Wilson, Jerrod, walk to graveyard
 Graveyard: Look grave (in the center above), read psalm, east twice
 Gold: Walk around and dig in some places (not when someone else is near!),
  to the southeast lies more gold, save often, watch out for bandits, when
  you don't find gold any more (at about 162 points), return to the fort
 Fort: Enter, walk to mules, buy mule, give gold, get mule, walk to shop
 Shop: Enter, get lantern, give gold, get pan, give gold, exit fort, east
 Gold: Watch out not to lose your mule, go all east until the town
 Town: Go to the Green Pastures Hotel, tie mule, enter

Walkthrough by Radiant
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