Porphyrium

1. The word is not a real English word. (If you get stuck after using VKG, after twenty commands, the game will provide a hint, "As you enter, so may you leave." That means that you can use VKG to exit a fire.)
2. Each time you guess a word, the voice will give you a hint about one of the letters.
3. You can type the same word three times in a row to get hints about all three of your letters.
4. If it says that the "head is to early," use a first letter later in the alphabet. If the "head is too late," use a first letter earlier in the alphabet.
5. mmm -> smm -> pmm -> omm
6. omm -> osm -> oxm
7. oxm -> oxg -> oxd

Kitchen

1. I'm just gonna have to tell you the answers. "What is in a nest?" (If you get stuck after using VKG, after twenty commands, the game will provide a hint, "As you enter, so may you leave." That means that you can use VKG to exit a fire.)
2. EGG. "What is in a pod?"
3. PEA. "Where are the moon and the stars?"
4. SKY. "What lights the day?"
5. SUN. "What drips from the candle?"
6. WAX. "What chops the tree?"
7. AXE. "What stops the river?"
8. DAM. "What grows up the wall?"
9. IVY. "What falls from the fire?"
10. ASH. "At the end of the day, I grant repose."
11. BED.

Cellar

1. Try random letter combinations; any three-letter combination will do, not necessarily real English words. (If you get stuck after using VKG, after twenty commands, the game will provide a hint, "As you enter, so may you leave." That means that you can use VKG to exit a fire.)
2. Try EYE.
3. "You must find different individuals who are neighbors." Each letter must be different.
4. Try EAR.
5. "You must find neighbors." None of those letters are neighbors at all. So, what's a neighbor?
6. Try END.
7. "All the individuals must be neighbors." That means that two of those are neighbors.
8. D and E are neighbors.
9. DEF, or any three-letter sequence from the alphabet.
10. For a different neighborly word, you can just reorder the letters. (Any reordering will do.)
11. DFE.

Now you have completed three tests, and earned three rewards: The head is X, the body is the tail of a skink, and the tail is the head of a viper. In the next hint, I'll tell you the word, but if you use it in the wrong place, the game will say "Nothing happens."

 ALC Cellar
 IMD Dormitary
 HCK Kitchen
 ARL Library

 CLA Cellar
 DMI Dormitary
 KCH Kitchen
 LRA Library

Ordinary words

1. Answer these questions with ordinary English words. In the next hint, I'll give you a word to use first.
2. To bother: irk
3. Differently: This is another ordinary English word meaning "to bother." In the next hint, I'll give you an answer.
4. Vex. In the next hint, I'll give you two answers for "a cover."
5. A cover: cap/lid.
6. A limb: arm/leg.
7. To doze: nap/nod.
8. A tool: axe/saw.
9. A liquor: rum/gin.
10. To strike: hit/tap.
11. A falsehood: lie/fib.
12. A tree: ash/oak/elm/fir.

Here are his hints:

He gets down on all fours and shakes himself.

1. He's miming being an animal.
2. Menagerie.

He draws an imaginary letter in the air before him.

1. There's a room about letters.
2. Alphabet Room.

He holds an imaginary implement and makes gentle strokes in the air before him.

1. He's miming painting.
2. Gallery.

He puts his hands together and places them by his cheek.

1. He's miming sleeping.
2. Dormitory.

He leafs through an imaginary book.

1. Several rooms have books, but there's a room in particular about books.
2. Library.

He folds his hands in front of him, as if on a surface.

1. Office.

He pretends to carry a large and heavy object, then puts it down.

1. Where would you put a large and heavy object?
2. Store Room.

He stands perfectly still for a moment.

1. He's miming being the statue of Morlodius.
2. Rotunda.

He smiles and rubs his stomach.

1. He's in a room where food is eaten.
2. He's in a room with dining tables.
3. Refectory.

He picks up an imaginary item, ponders it, and puts it back.

1. He's in a room containing "items."
2. Porphyrium.

He holds an imaginary implement and moves his hand in a slow horizontal circle.

1. He's miming stirring.
2. Kitchen.

He gets down on his knees and pokes at the ground with an imaginary implement.

1. He's miming digging with a small shovel.
2. Garden.

He pretends to pound on something with an imaginary implement.

1. He's miming hammering.
2. Workshop.

He marches several paces, turns around, and marches back.

1. He's miming patrolling.
2. Front Gate.

Now I return to where I started.

1. Cellar.

In the hints below, I'll tell you what each kind of word is.

Neigborly

1. In a Neighborly word, all letters are one step away from another letter, e.g. ABC.

Extreme

1. Extreme is kinda the opposite of neighborly.
2. Extreme words contain the letter A.
3. Extreme words contain the letter A and the letter Z.

Balanced

1. Many Neighborly words are Balanced.
2. Balanced words are like a balancing scale, with the same weight in each balancing pan.
3. If a Neighborly word is Balanced, how would you make a Balanced word that isn't Neighborly?
4. In a Balanced word, the distance from the first letter to the middle letter is the same as the distance from the middle letter to the last letter.

Early

1. In an Early word, all of the letters have something in common.
2. All of the letters of an Early word are Early.
3. In an Early word, all of the letters are before the letter K (not including K).

Late

1. In a Late word, all of the letters have something in common.
2. All of the letters of a Late word are Late.
3. In a Late word, all of the letters are after the letter R (not including R).

Difficult

1. In a Difficult word, all of the letters have something in common. (All of the letters in a Difficult word are Difficult.)
2. There are only about a dozen words in the Scrabble dictionary that are Difficult.
3. Most of the letters in the alphabet are Difficult.
4. A Difficult word contains no vowels AEIOU or Y.

Vocalic

1. In a Vocalic word, all of the letters have something in common.
2. Consider looking up the dictionary definition of "vocalic."
3. Vocalic means, "relating to or consisting of a vowel or vowels."
4. There are only about a dozen words in the Scrabble dictionary that are Vocalic.
5. A Vocalic word contains only vowels AEIOU.

Monotonous

1. In a Monotonous word, all of the letters have something in common.
2. Any letter may appear in a Monotonous word.
3. In a Monotonous word, all of the letters are the same letter.

Sandwiched

1. Try a few of the words from your known list of words.
2. EYE is Sandwiched, and so is AHA.
3. In a Sandwiched word, the first letter and the last letter are the same letter (but different from the middle letter).

Primeval

1. This one's tricky. It's hard to find even a single example to start with! But one of your known words is Primeval. (In the next hint, I'll tell you which one.)
2. SKW is Difficult and Primeval. (See "Difficult" above.)
3. All reorderings of SKW are also Primeval, like KWS and SWK.
4. In a Primeval word, all of the letters have something in common. (All of the letters in a Primeval word are Primeval.)
5. Starting with SKW, change just just one letter (e.g. just the first letter) to something else; try to find other Primeval letters. Working methodically, you can find more Primeval letters, and start to figure out what they have in common.
6. The spellings of Primeval letters all have something in common.
7. Remember how they spell letters here?
8. Here, letters are spelled as spelled-out numbers, like one.
9. The name "Primeval" is kind of a pun.
10. The pun involves numbers.
11. All of the Primeval letters are prime numbers, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, or 23. Primeval words contain only the letters BCEGKMQSW.

Nondescript

1. A nondescript word has none of the above features.