
The excellent point-and-click game Mystery of Time and Space has been updated with new levels! Billed as an interactive graphic adventure, MOTAS is one of the best and most expansive room escape games on the web. It was also one of the earliest, dating back to the primitive internet era of 2002, just as humans were emerging from the forest and learning to walk on two legs, comb their hair, and hire lawyers.
Every so often the game's author, Jan Albartus, tacks on a few new levels to expand the experience. Each is crafted with unique puzzles and tough challenges to overcome, and an in-game save feature lets you take a break and pick up where you left off. There's even an online level editor to make your own rooms. Start playing and get entranced by one of the classics! Click.
Thanks to Redab37 for sending this one in!
Since we reviewed this one a couple of years ago, you may find a treasure trove of hints, tips and perhaps even a walkthrough or two for the first 14 levels there, so don't give up! =)
New Mystery of Time and Space (MOTAS) rooms! walkthrough now available!
Comments (may contain spoilers)
Hello I am on level 18 I have got a white ball but cant for the life in me figure out what happens next.Help please
Ok I figured that one out I am now back in time with the alien,I have clicked everything I can,clicked the alien waited for ever but nothing moves...help pooter going through the window!
Lizzy
Don't do it - let your pooter live. Did you figure it out? The walkthrough at the top of this page should help.
I'm stuck on level 19. I just can't seem too find the seed. I've looked all around outside in the future but can't find it. If anyone knows where it is could they please help me?
Richard
Its on the ground.
Stuck at level 18.
Reason: I've clicked many times on alien and UFO in multiple ways: click on alien then UFO, drag mouse from alien to UFO, double click on alien then UFO... but the alien hasn't woke up and fly away yet.
Where is the point to "click on the alien"? How to click?
Help on lv.17!
I have put in one IC Board. But somehow, I don't know what to do, as in......... I'm stuck!
nicky
Does the walkthrough near the top of this page help?
never mind. I missed a line on the walk through!
Thanks, everyone!
level:18
the alien won't get in the ufo.....why? help!!
Hey, same problem as lots of you! I'm on level 19 and I can't make the *&£^"* ladder lean against the (*£)$)" tree! I've read all the hints but I'm obviously being dense...and tips?
Never mind! I figured it out

But now I've gone back to help a friend with level 18. We've both got it open on different PCs....and we can't make that alien fly! I know I've done it before, but I've no idea what I did to make it happen. Any help would be fab!
i finished this in about...2-3hours only thing i needed help on was the green wall.

only on L. 7
All I had to do to make the alien fly was hover over him. I didn't have to click him or anything...
im on level 11 and i forgot to put the chak on my pool stick and now it wont give me another try(took the cue baall) what do i do start over:(
is there any reason to the arrows on lvl 17? i beat it, but it didnt seem like there was any reason to the pattern that you push the arrows... which happens to be:

On level 18 I tried everything with the alien and the ufo and happens, the walkthrough you have here for level 18 doesnt work for me, it says to click on the alien and the ufo so the alien would start flying but its driving me nuts because that doesnt happen to me! Help!
jude
Just re-start the level. All you need to do is click on the alien once and it should get into the UFO and fly away.
what's the password for level9? I see DRFAW.
foxxy
Try re-arranging the letters. Also, there are several different passwords for this level.
I have been sitting in the room with the alien on lvl 18 for 30 min now and it will not start going back in time and I have already clicked on both him and the ship.Is it a glitch or is there something else I need to do?
Ok, I'm going mad!!! This blummin level 19 is doing my head in!!! I have the tree (the seed is a tree..), the ladder, the pot.. And can I get the darn ladder up the tree? NOOOO!!! I've done everything. PLEASE help!!!
B x
mentalmuffin
Has the tree grown big enough to poke through the hole in the ceiling?
@ the last poster: you need to redo the arrow bit, it ball will float two different ways, if you've done it and it doesn't work retry.
BUT um, my ladder won't stand up. Where do I click??
"Has the tree grown big enough to poke through the hole in the ceiling?"
D'oh! I just saw that part! Dummy me.
Someone for the love of all that is holy, help me with the flood control boat. I have read the walkthrough above but I still can't get it.
UGGH
The walkthrough should read "all the way to the right side".
Okay so I finished it. Motas 1-14 was the very first point and click game I had ever played and I have played hundreds since. Much to my delight to find more levels added...but alas the same disappointmennt as it draws to a close. Anyone know of any plans to add more? Or who to contact to find out??? Email is nothinggldcnstay@yahoo.com
Thanks so much
Bobby
Same here. It's been years since I've played MOTAS, and was very excited to hear that they've updated since, however, it would seem that I'm having an issue with level sixteen, and would be most appreciative of a little help.

Any suggestions?
Rook
The numbers that you need to input change each time you play this level. Put in the numbers only i.e. do not put in e.g. v1.80, only 1.80
im stuck on lvl 18 on the alien too... but the thing i dont get is... how would the alien drive the UFO away if its broken???
Has anyone had an issue with Level 3. I've moved the carpet squares, but the head continues to go in the holes on the right (not following the line to the left). Is there a game glitch or something??
For all those who are stuck at level 19 without knowing how to place the ladder......your tree needs to penetrate the hole in the roof, meaning you have to be in the future to place the ladder and not the present.
i'm stuck on lvl 14 with the flood control boat. i did it before but messed up and tried it w/ walkthrough but i'm lost and cant get it someone please help me!
Help help! I'm in level 19 and I need serious help regarding the tree.

Now, the tree doesn't penetrate the hole in the ceiling, and I cannot put my ladder anywhere. I want to go up, so bad, I cannot think. Please help!
I have done everything on level 13 except the NESW color setting machine to get the key. The pictures on level A say that both north and west are red and south is green, east is blue. What is the real color for north and west? how do you "set" the machine. Thanks. Bairn
For level 19 I somehow can't put the ladder against the plant


for level 19 i somehow cant put the ladder against the plant








































I have no idea how to get the alien into the UFO. Help please?
I am STUCK in level 7 ... I have the floppy but I can't find where it goes!!! HELP!
I finished the game and wanted to play again (I am trying to improve my memory) Now my new game won't save! It keeps going back to level 19.
What do I do? I even tried cleaning my temporary files and everything ...I don't know what to do.
gromit - Flash game saves are not stored within a browser's temporary files. You will need to access the Flash Settings Manager and delete the website 'gamesplanet.be' to clear your previous game saves for MOTAS.
gromit
You can also jump to any level at any time, including level 1, so long as you have completed that level previously. If you click on the "M" at the top right-hand corner a list of icons drops down. Click on the 8th icon down (it looks a bit like a floppy disc) to "load game".
p.s. Hiya Jay :o)
Rachel
It goes in one of the slots in the big grey cabinet to the right of the tele-transporter.
Hi. Am on level 4 (I know, I suck) I have cut up the triangle, put it back in, the panel is back on, and the door is still locked... HELP.
Matt
Put the pieces in a different way.
I'm on L16. Put in the password, the blender number & the UNOX number. STILL can't use the computer !!!!Any help please would be appreciated !!
Never mind !! I put the small "v" prefix in by mistake....
I LOVE THIS GAME! It`s like the mother of all escape games!
NEVERMIND!! I'm a dork, I was putting the "V" in front of the unix no.
OH my god, i am going mad here, I mean I have done everything that you can possibly do with that alien and UFO, I've clicked it, i hovered over it, i double clicked it and dragged it I even beat it and restart the level like 100 times already but *breath* it *breath* just *breath* won't *breath* get *breath* in!!! Somebody *breath* Anybody *breath* Please *breath* Save me!!! Help me before I jump out the window!!! please!!!
My UNOX version number was 1.8
I'd done the whole game by myself until I couldn't get past the computer on lvl 16. I'm am seriously unhappy that I had to cheat to find out that the UNOX version should be in the form of *.** and not the given *.*.
Anyway, I put a "0" at the end of it, so it was 1.80 and it worked.
i need help on level 18. the alien won't go into the freakin' ufo!!!!!!!! everybody says just to click on the alien and the ufo but it won't work!! it just says that a paradox will happen! URRRGGG!!!!!
I had trouble getting the alien in the UFO too. I finally figured it out though by playing with the dumb diagram of transistors and diodes*. That is, the diagram where you make the weird orby thing hover at.
To start with the diodes are pointing down, up, down, up, down. They need to be arranged so they point up, down, up, down, up though. Do that by just clicking on each of them.
Then the transistors need to be fixed as well. I can't remember how they started, but the arrow on the one in the upper left should be pointing up while the two lower ones, on either side of the orb, need to be pointing toward the orb.
*If you don't know what transistors or diodes are, look up "bjt junction transistor wiki" and "diode wiki" in google and click the first result, which should be a wiki article on those devices. The transistor wiki has a diagram of the relative device right at the top, but you will need to scroll about half way down the diode entry before you find the diagram.
I used the walk through for lvl 16, but can not open the email... I am stuck in the walk through with this step "Click on the last icon in the last column on the right. It will be titled BLENDER.
Write down the numbers that appear in the middle of the screen *.**.
Exit out of the window.
Go to 'My Computer' then 'Password Settings.'
Enter the numbers you just got into the text box that says 'Blender Version' then click LOGIN again." -please help! I am going insane!!!
meg the insane ;o)
Did you enter the operating system version number as well?
This is the BEST GAME EVER!!!
Okay... now what is wrong with Lvl 8? I can't seem to get out of the chess game! Is there a shorter way to do it? DX Help please, and thanks!
Ligaya
Are you to trying to land in the fireplace type thing?
hi guys, i used to play MOTAS back in the day when it finished at level 13. is there anyway to just start at 14 were i left off or do i need to start from scratch again?
reddi
Click on the icon at the top right-hand corner. A menu of icons will drop down. Click on the icon that looks lika a floppy disk. This should give you a list of all of the levels that you have completed - click on the last one, complete it again and you should end up on a new level. :D
What's wrong with level 13? I put in the colours in correct direction, but I pressed the lever and nothing happens. Anyway, what is the colour for West? Red?
its kk now i have done i have completed it yea me lol! level 19 completed cant wait for new levels lol!
to get the ladder on the tree.

I don't get it, I'm playing on a mac and the level 18 is just a black screen, couldn't read the note in the previous level and I have to go to work.. No time to start all again... WHAT SHALL I DO? Any idea, how to go back just a level? or it has to do with the mac?
that's fine, I've sorted. Nothing to do with the mac. shame that it ended.
Where is the sand paper in the flood control
Hi guys, i cant get the balls to go into the pockets on the pool table in level 11.
i have chalked the cue and everything, no matter how i hit the balls they dont go in or i miss
please help!
ta
Am I the only one who think the text makes no sense on level 8?
For example, when my cursor hovers over those three big metal things in the gray room with the fan and notes on the wall, the text floats next to my cursor and says 'i place the empty sheet of paper over the letter', like in level 7; or when I look at the 'merry christmas' letter it says "Hmmm, the mail-snail's inbox is empty right now."
???
im stuck on level 14 ive put the code in the wall but cant break the wall with the screwdriver i have been trying for about 30 mins can any one help??
I cant get the pieces to work on level 4. i have put them in every way and the dor still wont open
You plant the seed in the PAST!
SOMEBODY HELP!!!!! I´m stuck at level 9. I got the letters but what am I suppose to do now nothing works.
Help me please!!!
Level 9.....
Stinks... my six year old says, "Like a skunk fart"
I am at the room with the machine that opens a door to a series of 5 rooms. I have a key that I have tried to use in every one of those 5 rooms. But the key works in none of those rooms. I have been into each of those 5 rooms too many times and have lost count.
I give up. Interesting and frustrating at the same time.
I got stuck in level 9 for a while until I realized I had the wrong key. The green wall drove me crazy and I resorted to the walk thru. I tried not to use the walk through too much. But I relied on it more in this game than in any others I have played. I made it to 18 and 19 and was confused with the orb thing and past present future stuff. It was a challenge even with the help and hints. Thanks for the best game site I have ever been to. Since I found this place, I don't read DIGG anymore. Oh and that is where I found this place. :)
if you need help

i have a question, and it's that from lvl 11, you take the coin, and then use it, but if you take another one, at the end of lvl 12, there is a vending machine, and if you put the coin in, and get a soda, but what is the deal with the soda, is it for anything important?
Oh dear lord JayisGame what have you done to me??? I use to like my Saturday nights out (I am a single mom after all). Then you go and introduce me to point and clicks??? OMG This MOTAS one whew. I am totally stuck on Level 14 I picked up every piece of sandpaper and it says my axe is still blunt. I looked at the walkthrough and could find no help (ditto on comments) Any suggestions?
And then Murphy's Law kicks in and 10 seconds after I post I figure it out! LOL at least I got my first posts done!! LOL
Restarted level 18 five times and the walkthrough hasn't worked a single time. The alien moves when I hold the mouse over it (as it did the first time through) but clicking on it does NOTHING.
Is this just a very glitchy game? It would be nice if the glitch showed up before level 18.
(I also had a problem with level 9 -- first time, the second password didn't work, restarting the level I got a new password that did -- but this is ridiculous. Any hints?)
oh my GOD ... this is the fourth time ty to play it and its hang up every time .. bad game
OKAY. The problem was that there is an error in the walkthrough for level 18.


Stuck on Level 3 :
Hmm... is there a bug, or did the authors change the game since all these comments were written?
I've re-arranged the floor tiles - actually figured out that must be what needed to be done, before reading all these spoilers - but the rat/head/whatever-it-is WILL NOT follow the route.
No matter what I do, he just goes back into the second (bottom) rat hole on the right. He's ignoring the pattern on the floor completely!
All I can think of to do is to block that second rat-hole, somehow; but I have nothing to do that with and anyway, none of the other comments and spoilers on Level 3 mention anything like that...?
Thanks in advance.
--
Nightwalker.
If someone will let me know what the walkthrough *should* say for 18, I'll update it accordingly. Thanks! :)
I FOUND OUT HOW TO GET THE ALIEN FLY TO THE UFO IN LEVEL 18!

Jay, this should be it. And I think my earlier comment was not quite right about how you do it. (I've just copied from the existing walkthrough, with the additional steps inserted in bold, and a couple of typos corrected.)
Level 18 Walkthrough

- Enter the screen to the right, and click on the big black block. It will move aside to reveal a note.
- Click on the note and write down the numbers.
- Go back to the left screen, and enter the numbers by clicking on the dice looking objects.
- Once the correct code is entered, a panel will slide up. Put the MOTAS device in the insertion slot at the bottom of the panel without switching any of the switches. At this point the two bottom circles should be pointing to the MOTAS device, the top circle should be pointing down, and the little triangle switches should be down, up, down, up, down. The MOTAS device should float as soon as you put it in.
- Now switch the switches again so that the two bottom circles of the panel are pointing toward the MOTAS device and the one on top is pointing upwards. The little triangle switches need to be up, down, up, down, up. When the MOTAS device is floating for the second time pick it up. It's important to have the MOTAS device float twice, and I think you have to do it in this order. Otherwise you can go back to the screen with the alien, but time won't reverse when you click on the alien. [What confused me about the original walkthrough is that it doesn't make clear that the MOTAS device needs to float twice.]
- Click on the MOTAS device, then click on the second orb.
- Click on the alien and the UFO. The alien will get in and fly away. (because time is going backwards)
- Click on the note it left behind.

But, it seemed like a few people besides me were confused by this, so it's worth spelling it out in more detail.
Anyway, thanks to Jay for running the site, and to newbie for all the work that you put into the walkthrough.
Cheers, Matt! :D
I've updated the walkthrough with your changes.
i cant figure out the computer thing for level 8. every time i click the second door it takes me back to the first room...help?
Level 12 - where a key to open the cupboard in laser room 3
I found a second coin in the chest(in level 11)and used it on the vender in level 12 and got a drink what do I use it for?
on level 14, how do you move the boat? ive tried doing it the walkthrough way and the numbers dont work. ive clicked the buttons millions of times and all it does it move the water in the middle. will someone pleaseee help??
i love this game!!!!one of my all-time favorites!!!when will the rest be coming out??? love this game, jay, thx for putting it on the site <3
i give up in level 8 with panel. ill try to click the buttons thousands of times and is no use. help PLEASE
On level 14 I have done the color directions correctly (yellow in front of me, green behind that, red to the left, blue to the right) and I'm still not getting the golden key! Why?!
need help lev 3, moved tiles according to walkthrough, can't put head on tiles. HELP PLEASE
One of the codes is

Another is

HELP!!! I'm having trouble on level 8. I cant seem to get the big old chess pieces to move the way the should. The one on the left just sits there I thought it was supposed to "follow" the other piece or something. Either way it's frustrating me. More so than the smilie face key pad on a previous level.
If anyone's got any hints or tips or clues gimme a yell!!! B-)
Oh and great game by the way. I'm kinda new to all these point-n-click-escape-type games and they absolutely rock.
Ooohk, as is usually the case...I've managed to finally figure out where I was stuck. Good thing you can re-load the levels LOL!!!
For level 16



Here is a translation of the full message:

Attachment:
Cloning & Logic Training Facility
This is an automated message
December 7, 2006 The main computer has awakened the automated facilities of the colonial cloning & logic training facility. This artificial moon will be on route to the nearest L class planet.
January 3, 2007 Today new clones have been hatched and arrived in the logic training facility. Although they start with no memory, reports are indicating skills to be present. They ? proceed through the 8 virtual levels before.
January 8, 2007 We arrived at the outer edges of the terra system today. It seems the inhabitants on the third planet from the star have reached the appropriate level of development.
January 12, 2007 There might be a problem. Today we were scanned by the population of the planet that was indexed as Terraprime (local name Earth according to monitored broadcasts). They even announced in their media the discovery of an previously undiscovered planet or planetoid in their star system. Adjusting course is not possible without the risk of being noticed as artificial.
Febuary 1 Today the disturbing news came. The people from Terraprime have gotten the impression this artificial planetoid is on a collision course with their planet. It seems they plan to destroy this planet in the hope to escape disaster.
February 2 It has been decided that all personnel will be evacuated as it is too soon to have formal contact with the inhabitants of Terraprime. The self destruct of this base has been activated and this space station will be destroyed as soon as the terrans send ships.
March 15 Long range scans reveal the launch of several manned spacecraft. Hoping they would send automated craft to destroy this base was preferable. Hopefully they attempt to destroy this base from a safe range.
June 5 The spacecraft are almost within visual range. The self destruct has not been initiated and should be done before this station comes too close to earth. If it's too close debris may rain down, or the shock wave of the impact would bump the planet out of orbit.
June 9 The spacecraft appear to waste more time on examining a, what appears to their scanners, as ordinary planetoid. In space safety protocol has been overwritten and a remote DNA sample was taken to create a clone that will hopefully save the planet.
June 25 The clone has reached the physical realm of the logic training. I will leave a copy of this mission report for the clone to find.
Oh, I almost forgot, the code to the door is: 597333
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Level 18 Walkthrough
It's important to have the MOTAS device float twice, and I think you have to do it in this order. Otherwise you can go back to the screen with the alien, but time won't reverse when you click on the alien. [What confused me about the original walkthrough is that it doesn't make clear that the MOTAS device needs to float twice.]
Level 19 Walkthrough
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January 18, 2007 10:06 PM