* Save your magic orbs for puzzles that you really want to skip, they are hard
  to come by and you will probably wish that you had saved them for later.

* If you get stuck on a puzzle, you can click on the book icon and go to another
  page and finish the easiest ones first and come back to the more difficult ones.

* Read the instructions carefully even though it may be a game that you already
  played the rules may have changed. For example on the "pawns" game you are 
  asked at first to end up with 4 pawns and later on it asks you to end up with 
  only 2. 

* You can go back and play any completed mini game, by going back to the parlor.