L’expresso Empoisonné (The Poison Coffee) is a superb point-and-click mystery game created by Anode and Cathode, the authors of The Museum, The Casino, and other games in this genre.
Paintings and other artwork have been stolen from a museum gallery. All of the evidence points to Damien Bestieu, one of the featured painters. A school teacher solves the mystery, but just as she is about to reveal the thief, Damien hands her a cup of coffee. She takes a sip and falls to the floor unconscious. The coffee was poisoned. The police consider it an open and shut case, but two young school children think differently. Help the children solve the mystery by searching the museum and surrounding grounds for clues that will clear Damien of the crime.
L’expresso Empoisonné is exquisitely designed with an easy point-and-click interface and fetching artwork. The story might be simple, but it's catchy and extremely enjoyable, kind of like an episode of Scooby Doo minus the campy humor. You carry a backpack that holds your inventory along with a clue journal. There are four entries in the journal that point to Damien's guilt. Your overarching goal is to prove each of these points false. You'll also be solving typical point-and-click puzzles to unlock doors, navigate mazes and find necessary items to continue in the game.
A small but enormously enjoyable feature of L’expresso Empoisonné are little mini-games that are integrated into the story. One example is a short bout of whac-a-mole. There's also a small (but oh-so-fun) maze and a short action-arcade sequence involving fish. Each time I hit one of these mini-games it was the perfect time to break the cerebral activity of solving a mystery. And I admit it, they made me grin.
L’expresso Empoisonné was released in French a little over a month ago, but this version has been translated to English. There are some rough patches and a few untranslated bits of text, but nothing that will hamper your understanding or enjoyment of the game.
You'll spend a solid hour on this game and will be glued to the screen the entire time. Puzzles are just difficult enough to keep you entertained but not too tough to discourage you. A very well-balanced title that captured my imagination and admiration right from the start.
L’expresso Empoisonné walkthrough now available!
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i have 14 cubes where is the last one!
How do I get past the snake or the other animal?
what Does the fish?
what Does the fish need?
someone make a walkthrough!
Can anyone tell me how to get out of the laberynth or past those animals
arrgghh, I can't find the switch or back out of the lambyrinth!! this is driving me nuts! Usually I'm at least decent at these "room" games, sigh, maybe I'm having a bad day
Ro-

I got past the tiger or w/e but now I need the key.
Grr, i know I'm about to give up lol
Wow, I was just messing with my items and now got past the snake :)
Where do I use the

Still need fishy help please...
How many cubes are there?
I got 12, can't find anymore
The fish wants:

...Which is where, Ro? Lol...
To get it:

Ack! I found all 15 cubes (the last is

All I need now is the watch!!!
Ohhh, I have the gun, I had no freakin' clue what it was for though. Thanks!
meiyas,
The picture you need to clean is in the museum...the one lifted up to get stuff out of (next to the statue)
try and remember where you got the gun
where do you get the gun!
Aidan-I have no idea,sry
Now I'm in the security room,no idea what to do there
i looked everywhere and i can't find it... my eyes hurt now.
Did you try to look at the car in the swamp?
I may have gotten it there
Aidan -

I'm stuck in the labrynth and have defeated the snake, but cannot get through the purple door. I have one key, but it doesn't seem to work. Is everything you need to get out of the labrynth found in the labrynth itself?
yes, the gun is in the back of the car, right in front of the back seat...
Anyone knows how to get into the labyrinth? i have a flashlight, but it doesn't work.
Um... Help?

Nevermind, I'm a dolt. Just got it.
the gun is just in fron of the back seat of the car...
anyone knows how to get into the labyrinth? i have a flashlight but it doesn't work. i also can't find any screwdriver needed to unscrew the photo.
what do we do with

How do I get rid of the ghost?
Gun

To get the gun

Where's..

lol, the thing you have to do to 'complete' the statute in the cave confused the hell out of me, until I realized that it is, in fact, James Bond and not Dracula.
where are the statue´s clothes??
and where is the 15th cube???
headstone in graveyard for watch
where are the glasses?
nevermind don't exist
Thanks, what about the light watch?I can't find it
for the wood and metal art piece :

After 3 hours, I finished it!!!
:)
Some of those items were hard to find (the light belt and watch in particular)
I've got all 15 cubes, but I'm looking for the

Oh bugger, I'd just finished writing a walkthrough too. Oh well.
The watch is...

Anyone tell me what the watch is for since i told you where its at....
Nevermind I found what the watch is for but know i can't give the chemicals to the ghost. I have the purple, blue, and green flasks.
Nevermind again i beat it and actually this is my first point and click game without using hints or a walkthrough amazing
So... which headstone in the graveyard has the watch? I've clicked all of them and still nothing.
And that ghost is so ugly.
Honestly I think he'd been better with painting than music -_-
I enjoy this game - except the task of rebuilding the guardian's machine! Some of the pieces fit fine in their obvious positions, some don't at all! Any ideas?
I don't know if it was a bug, or what, but...

I had no idea what to do, so I gave up. Up until that, it was a very enjoyable game, though. :)
My main problem was not knowing there was a graveyard to the right. Boy did that make the game tougher. :)
ZK, I had the same problem, but there's a very small space on the model's arm that takes the watch.
Ending spoiler:

Yeah, about the item placement. Refer to the placement of the tiny mouse arrow...not the item your mouse holds.
How do i get the ladder ?
About the watch

I don't want to hear any more 'where is....' because here is a walkthrough. Love the site, J.
Froggie

- Go left to the manor. Get the cube. Enter the manor, main hall, top-left door. Only one door in the corridor works. Enter, get cube, play the memory game. Get the key. Return to the main hall.
- Go into the top middle portal of the main hall. Get the cube. Exit the manor. Go left (or right) to the back.
- Get the round red thing in the tree and the cube. Enter the upper right hut. Talk to the ghost, pick any name, play whack-a-mole and get a cube.
- Exit the hut and go further back to the lake.
- Get cube from under car. Open rear door, get gun. Open trunk, get crowbar.
- Return to the opening screen. Go right.
- Grab shovel and cube. Talk to ghost, then return to opening screen.
- Go forward to the building (the museum).
- Talk the the guard. Enter the museum.
- Get the cube on the left. Enter the cinema.
- Get the cube and dog. Go right of stage. Descend. See machine.
- Put the red rocket thingy from the left onto the gray block on the right, just like the other one. (Remember, the triangle cursor is what you click with).
- Put the horizontal lower right track on the table next to it. The machine is symmetrical, so just finish it. Hit the big red button. let things run.
- Click the diamond. Get the code. Click the little black square. Click again, on the brown top. Get the ladder.
- Go up (top of screen). Return to museum entrance and go right, into the museum.
- Get the cube from bookshelf. Go right.
- Click the white sheet to statue's right. It moves up, get key. Click the sign on the floor to statue's left. Click the list at the bottom right, it will get circled. Close it, open the notebook and click on third proof.
- Go to cinema, use the key on the left door. Go down.
- Click flashlight, click anywhere, click the battery cover. Get battery, give to dog by clicking his lamp.
- Give compass to the people there. Get the remote control. Use the remote control on the left door. Enter.
- Get screwdriver. Use shovel on the rocks. Get cube. Enter the portal.
- Get helmet and goggles from statue. Click shoes. Open notebook, click first proof.
- Go out the door. Go to the three huts area.
- Enter the left hut. Get cube. Put red circle on tip of cannon.
- Click on small picture on wall. Use screwdriver on the screws.
- Click on cannon. Click on safe. Play the game. Take the red circle back. Exit hut, enter lower right hut. Grab stuff from safe.
- Go to manor main hall.
- Enter upper right door, get clothes on suit of armor. Get cube.
- Upper middle door, click second purple square on wall. Get whatever.
- Main hall, lower right door next to stairs. Put pistol in statue's hand. Click it. Get engine and cube.
- Put ladder under other cube and get it. Leave (upper right corner).
- Click several times on double doors on the right. Get dark screen with white square and a circle. Use circle to find your way around, and use arrow keys (you may have to click anywhere in the dark area first) to move the white square, which is you.
- Go up and right to the red room. Get sandwich from fridge.
- Go back the way you came, go down to the brown room. Open cupboard and get the wand/lightsaber/teleporter.
- Go to the beginning, then enter center corridor and turn right (down). Go to the end and turn left (right of the screen). Take the first left (up) and enter the big brown room. Grab purple thing (dryer).
- Retreat, go to the small brown room. Turn off the switch. Exit, go right.
- Hit the ice wall, use the pink dryer on it. Continue to green room. Use wand/lightsaber/teleporter on snake. Take blue flask and key.
- Return to the big brown room, go past it and turn right. Enter the purple room. Give sandwich to blue monster.
- Use key on door. Click door. Click on weird sculpture. Click on keyhole on the stand. You will be in main hall.
- Go to graveyard. Click headstone, get watch.
- Go to museum back room. Put clothes on statue. Put watch on statue's left hand (your right). Put the "whatever" (des loupiettes or something) you got from the purple square in castle wall, on statue's chest. Put the metal bits on the left lower wall.
- Put sculpture from labyrinth on right pedestal.
- Click couple of times on the helmet until you can pick it up. Put it on statue.
- Put the cubes on foreground pedestal.
- Click cubes, statue, and labyrinth sculpture and get the things that fall out.
- Go to lake. Click it a few times until you go under. Talk to fish, give him the engine, play the game. Avoid the shark, don't hit the cave sides, and avoid the shooters. This is annoying.
- So you got the red flask.
- Return to museum entrance, use crowbar on the far left door. Click it a couple times, go inside. Get stuff from under table. Exit.
- Go to museum back room. Put stuff from under table on left wall (the empty one). Click it again to get another tube.
- Put red circle on lower left wall. Click it to get the last tube.
- Go to graveyeard, click on ghost, take green bottle. Return to museum back room.
- Open notebook, click second proof.
- Click the white thing on statue's right to put it back in place. Use green bottle on it until a painting appears. Go to ghost in graveyard.
- Talk to him until you get the tape. return to museum entrance. Go left, put tape in machine. Click image a couple of times. When done, open notebook and cross out last proof. Click bottom of the right page.
- Return to ghost in graveyard. Click on him, take the blue bottle.
- The end.
Does anyone else have a problem opening the elevator door with the key? It worked yesterday, but today, it will not let me open the door, no matter which key you use!
i can't beat that dumb fire-spitter in the fish race :(
what did i do wrong?

Okay, I have worked on this machine for an hour and cannot get the items to go where they are suppose to. Any ideas?
My mistake!
You use the key

You use the memory game key to open the labyrinth!
charming! another winner from anode and cathode. the didactic ending was kind of odd and a little silly but kind of endearing. the fish chase was a little bit tedious, but it still gets points for effort.
i need help i click several times on the labyrinth but it still wont let me in I NEED HELP!!!! wut m i doing wrong?
I used red ring in the museum before using it with cannon (I read from walkthrough that it should have been used with cannon first) and now I can't get it back to use it with cannon, so I can't beat the game without restarting...
Loved it!!
Hummmm. I experienced the same problem that Sarah did with my mouse cursor disappearing. I tried to play without it for a while, but that just got annoying. Now the page won't load anything... is the site maybe down for a little bit or is it just my computer?
I also had the same trouble with the cursor. It only seems to be when clicking on certain items, i.e. the oven in the labryinth and the key in the museum. Very annoying...
So, that stupid fish game was the bain of my existance for like a day + a half... + I felt sort of let down about the ending of the game. that was kinda lame.
You people who are having trouble in the labryinth, are you clicking on the square and using the arrow keys on your keyboard?
I just can't get the fish past the fireballs
You people who are having trouble in the labryinth, are you clicking on the square and using the arrow keys on your keyboard?
I just can't get the fish past the fireballs
my cursor half disapppeared in the forest with the ghost thing, I gave up at that point because my cursor was so slow anyway, it took ages to move anywhere and was so jerky that it took several attempt to get it to where I wanted it.
If it wasn't for the frustration of the cursor I'd be able to sit there and play it for ages.
i'm almost at the end of the game and my cursor disappeared too!!!!!! all i have to do is fit the watch and stuff on the model too, get the vial and return to the ghost. GAHHHHH. and i took so long just to complete that fish game too. <:(
hey. Is there a way to complete this game without that stupid fish game???
By the way this site may be the cause of me getting fired from work I spend far too long playing all the really good games :-)
HELP!! i can't get into the labrynth, keep clicking it but it won't work! its driving me insane!!!
To get past the fish game you need to

the fish game is easy just

I have finished the game!!! And it takes ONLY 3 and half hours!!! xD Only problem was that i can't find by myself the missing piece of Wood & Metal.. It was very very boring. But it's still good game. :D
I can't get the stupid cube in the cave. It says I can't reach it. AND the ghost gives me no liquid of any type AND no flask of any color I use on the blank painting works...the painting just continues to move up and down. Suggestions?
MedicMarti...
...U have to use the ladders to get the cube. And u have to find all flask by yourself, then go talk to ghost and he gives u green botle. Helped?
This game is kinda boring sometimes, but these comments helped me. :) Don't give up if u are stuck. ;)
I played this game at 12 in night and i was sooooo tired. xD i woke up that morning very early.......
Ok if your looking for the graveyard ghost's ingredients here's a clue.

Took me a while.
Good game.
i have put the clothes on the statue but it wont let me do anything with the metal pieces, have played all the anode and cothode games but this one is really confusing or it might be im tired. Anyway can someone advise i need some help, i am a stressed woman that really needs someones help, PLEASE PLEEEAAASSSSEEE
cant get the door in the cimima to open with the crowbar what am i doing wrong
O_o what helmet?
Cool Game.. felt sleepy while playing but had coffee.. did not want to shut down the laptop or go to my room to finish the game .. was afraid to use the nework connection..
The only problem I faced was the disappearing curser .. have to click out the game screen or on another page to get it back !! other than this it was going smooth ..
how to get out of the labyrinth? i'm stuck in there! what am i suppose to do in there?
what's the use of the booster?
ohyah, what's the white little square doing in the labyrinth? (on the middle left) it seems like some kind of error..
Here are som hints for the Labyrinth..





Enjoy the Labyrinth :)
For the whack-a-mole...if you really don't feel like actually playing the game then the name of the ghost guy in the whack-a-mole room is...

Ach! I got into the machiney thingy and am trying as hard as I can to set it up symmetrically, but it won't let me put the rocket, the long track, or the fan box thing into place! Is it just insanely picky?
I got past the fish game in 3 tries, but it really does drive you mad when you see the huge shark face... :P This is fun.
how do i get in the security room?
I've been a regular at Jay Is Games for a while now, and I've played most of the escape-the-room games. Many of them I would not have been able to complete without this comment section, so I thank you.
Now I ask for help. I have completed everything that appears before getting the watch on the above walkthrough, but I can't get it!

Help!

It might be a bit scary for the kids... as well as mme... hahaha!
I agree that the minigames were a fun break from puzzling, except for the fish game. It's way too hard!
Any one else get "Triplettes de Belleville" flashbacks from the ending?
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I don't want to hear any more 'where is....' because here is a walkthrough. Love the site, J.
Froggie
Posted by: Froggie | July 12, 2006 8:08 PM