*Spoilers* My notes and cheats for The Basement

[beckie66]

Here are my notes from The Basement.  This is just my personal experience, and like everything else in this game, it varies for every player.

The strategy of releasing the 'easier' of the pair first works well so that you aren't using up all of your expensive or hard-to-get ingredients.  I had a very hard time with my last pair - the Purple Prego and the UnNew Mom.  I had way more Yellow Pills than I did Flare Juice, so I kept sending up the UnNew Mom first, only to have her come back down.  Then I kept running out of Flare Juice and had to keep going back to JV and wait for it to be dropped, while the UnNew Mom was up.  It finally dawned on me to send the Purple Prego up only when the UnNew Mom was down, and it worked.  If I would have sent the Purple Prego up first, I would have been done with this pair a lot faster. 

I also decided after serving everyone a few times that it may be easier to just focus on the super-easy pairs first, and serve everyone else Black Coffee or Cinnamon Rolls or something.  That way I knew which pair I was working on and I could cross them off of my list.  This worked well for me, too, because then I knew who was gone, who was up and who was down. 

For me, the Blabbin' Admin was my 'extra' and the Security Guard was part of a pair. 

This list may help you determine how many of an ingredient you are going to need to stock-up on, too.  Like I said, I totally flubbed the Flare Juice/Yellow Pill pair, so your requirements will probably be less. 

You are also going to need all of the ingredients for the Quantum Leap to serve the Angry Queen at the end.  And I am pretty sure you can serve the Grateful Superhero anything - I tried the Cafe du Latte and didn't have a Stardust and it was red because it was an orange recipe entry (I had to try, right?) but then I served her the Cinnamon Rolls and that worked.  We learn as we go!

My total serves:        
   

    * Hostage UnDoctor - 7
      
    * Hostage UnJudge - 12
      
    * Hostage UnNew Mom - 58 (15 being her favorite drink)
      
    * Hostage UnWorker Bee - 5
      
    * Hostage Ms. High Card - 15
      
    * Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #1 - 12 (11 being her favorite drink)
      
    * Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #2 - 41
      
    * Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #3 - 7
      
    * Hostage Ms. Straight Flush - 5
      
    * Hostage Ms. Royal Flush - 9
      
    * Hostage UnFireman - 21
     
    * Hostage Blabbin' Admin - 5
      
    * Hostage Mob Snob - 40
      
    * Hostage Pinktop with Laptop - 15
      
    * Hostage Nanny-I-Ammy - 8
      
    * Hostage Lawyer with a Spoiler - 11 (2 being her favorite drink)
      
    * Hostage Candy Factory Security Guard - 41
      
    * Hostage Blue Tourist Blues Musician - 5
      
    * Hostage Red Tourist Ghost - 9
      
    * Hostage Green Tourist Criminal Mastermind - 4
      
    * Hostage Purple Tourist Pregnant Mom - 73 (22 being her favorite drink)
      
    * Hostage Yellow Tourist Scientist - 16 (15 being his favorite drink)
      
    * Hostage Pink Candy Factory CEO - 6 (5 being his favorite drink)

These are from other posts here in the forum that I used (and I thank every person out there for compiling this info!  I know it could not have been easy!!!)

 

 

• cwrcar

posted to Java Wonderland in Latte Land

on Oct. 8, 2009 at 6:06 AM

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I think I finally found a pattern to the Hostages/escapees.  I believe the hostages affect each other in pairs- so if you get both in a pair up they won't escape again...  This happened several times with the same customers, enough for me to rule it out as just a coincidence. (but I could still be wrong...)  Maybe this could help in some strategies... 

Here is the complete list!  :)

Pink CEO <=> UnDoctor

Yellow Scientist <=> UnJudge

Royal Flush <=> Pinktop

Nanny <=> Straight Flush

Mob Snob <=> UnFireman

Three of Kind #2 <=> Blabbin' Admin or Security Guard**

Unworker Bee <=> Green Mastermind

Red Ghost <=> Ms. High Card (*Diamonds)

Blue Musician (*Spades) <=> Three of Kind #1 (*Poppin- Spoonful Sugar/Honey Nectar)

Three Kind #3 (*Red Tea/Choc. stuffin) <=> Lawyer (*Amethyst Shards)

UnNew Mom (*Yellow Pills) <=> Purple Prego Mom (*Flare Juice)

(**Some players are finding #2 paired with/affecting the Security Guard while other players have the Admin. & #2 paired/affecting each other.**)

*This has really helped me save the "hard to get" or expensive ingredients (Ie. Shards) until I have "had" to use them.  (I did not use them until their "partner" was up/escaped.)  Of course, it does not keep the other one you got rid of from coming back while you work on getting the harder/expensive one up.  that is a LOT about LUCK still I think.  I have not found any rhyme or reason yet why one goes up more readily or one comes down.

 

I am hoping to get #1 up b4 I run out of the Spoonful!! (but that Blues guy keeps getting re-captured & she is being stubborn about going up!!  LOL)

 

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  • Heather2001
  on Oct. 31, 2009 at 1:42 PM

• Not completely by yourself.  =)

  Customer	Favorite Drink
  Hostage Ms. High Card	Café Diamonds
  Hostage Mob Snob	Mountain Mocha
  Hostage Blue Tourist Blues Musician	Café Spades
  Hostage Candy Factory Security Guard	Jelly Bean Brew
  Hostage UnWorker Bee	Caviar Dreams Macchiato
  Hostage Purple Tourist Pregnant Mom	911 Latte
  Hostage Ms. Royal Flush	Indiana Juice
  Hostage Green Tourist Criminal Mastermind	The Drink About Nothing
  Hostage Nanny-I-Ammy	Iced Coffee
  Hostage Yellow Tourist Scientist	Captain Blackbeard Brew
  Hostage Red Tourist Ghost	Café America the Beautiful
  Hostage UnFireman	Iced Drama Java
  Hostage Blabbin' Admin	Setitandforgetit Chai
  Hostage UnJudge	Cappuccino
  Hostage Pink CEO	Dye-Removing Decaf
  Hostage Ms. Straight Flush	Honey Grog Latte
  Hostage Pinktop with a Laptop	Bicentennial Brew
  Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #1	Poppin-for-a-Tea
  Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #2	Labor Inducing (Decaf)
  Hostage Ms. Three of a Kind #3	Chocolate Bar Chai
  Hostage Lawyer with a Spoiler	Café Joker: Amethyst
  Hostage UnNew Mom	Bodacious Banana
  Hostage UnDoctor	Café au Lait

[kjbennett26]

thanks for the help :)

[beckie66]

BUMP!

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