> I'm completely, utterly, totally, amazingly, terribly, terrifingly, horribly, tragically, dreadfully, and goodness knows how many other synonyms stuck on The Spinning Stone. I haven't even found the prince yet...any hints?

I made a flowchart when I played to go through all the possible choices at each step. I reached 16 different stages before the key one, but there may have been one or two more that I didn't reach.

Anyway, how I did it was by drawing boxes for each stage and labeling them with the initial letters of all the options available at that point, since there's no real sensible way of labeling them anyway. Then I drew arrows from box to box, labeling the arrows with the corresponding option that causes that transition. Eventually, after about 35 arrows drawn, I solved it.

This technique is what I did for several of the games that defy sensible physical mapping. If I ever play through these again, I can just follow the flowcharts I made. One thing I'll note from this game is that the winning move is made using an option that doesn't work before you've done a key event. Also, one of the options seems to not always take you to the same resultant stage. But other than that, it's mostly predictable.