Shrink Ray Island Guide

Synopsis

A young genius has invented a ray gun that shrinks anything it touches – including you! But when the scientist and her invention go missing, you’ll have to keep the shrink ray from falling into the wrong hands, and find a way to bring yourself back to normal size. To solve a problem this big, you’ve got to think small!

For walkthroughs on Shrink Ray Island, scroll down.

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Released: June 30, 2011 (for members)
or July 28, 2011 (for all)
Common Room: Sweet Dreams Candy Shop
Preceded by: Red Dragon Island
Succeeded by: Mystery Train Island

Resources on this page: Island Extras | Synopsis from Poptropica | Video Walkthrough | Written Walkthrough | Album Photos | Trivia

Island Extras: Map | Official Tour | Video Playlist | Shrink Shot MiniQuest Guide | Champions Map

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Video Walkthrough

For a written walkthrough with pictures, scroll down on this page!

Written Walkthrough

Walkthrough written by Rainbow Dash
Special thanks to: Slanted Fish, Spotted Dragon, Hungry Fish, & theredburger

When you arrive on Shrink Ray Island, go directly to the school and into the room where the science fair is taking place. All the other science fair displays are up, save for one: turns out, the star student, CJ, is missing! Talk to CJ’s father next to the empty stand on the right and ask how you can help. He’ll tell you to go check in on their apartment in Avenue A.

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CJ’s Apartment

Now head down right to Avenue A. Go to the house at the far end. A cat will get in the house, and you will have to shoo it out! Chase the cat around the house, until it enters the bathroom. When you come out of the bathroom, the cat will have mysteriously disappeared, but his paw can still be felt if you pass by the front door – so every time you do pass that door later on, be sure to jump!

To solve a problem this big, we have to think small…

Now we’ll have to check the house for clues on CJ’s disappearance. Go to CJ’s bedroom to the left and click on the microscope, where CJ has left you a note saying that her invention has been stolen and you will need to think small to find it.

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And then a man will come with a gun and shoot you. You will be shrunk down to miniature size!

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Now, travel through the house to the kitchen on the right. Along the way you will see drawers, pieces of fuzz, books, and all sorts of big things (but that’s because you’re tiny now).

Kitchen

Inside the kitchen, your goal is to reach a scrap of paper with clues sitting unreachably on the table at the far right. First, enter the right area of the kitchen (there are two parts; left and right).

Push the brown rolling pin towards the kettle, and the kettle will start steaming. The steam of the kettle should push you onto the top right shelf, containing flour, sugar, and oil. Tip the can of oil over, and it will drip oil down to the ground.

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Jump down to where the cat food bowl is, and push it to a spot where it’ll be directly in the path of the bag of cat food above. Next, hop over to the bag of cat food and click on it to drop the food into the bowl.

When the cat food bowl is full, move it towards the bottom of the table, get on top of the food bowl, and jump! You should land on the farthest right table and pick up the Piece of Paper. Move the cat food bowl again, this time placing it under the grapes on the table, and jump again to grab a grape – which you will now be carrying.

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Now go back to the left side of the kitchen. Jump up to the open drawers and pick up the Screwdriver. Next, take the toaster’s cord and plug it into the outlet. Carrying the grape, you’ll now have enough weight to jump onto the toaster switch – wait a moment as the toaster gets heated, and you’ll be flung up to the shelf above.

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Push the salt shaker on the shelf to the far left end until it rests on the bottom of the spatula. Next, jump on the other side of the spatula, and it will fling you to the top of the fridge, where you can grab the Remote Control!

Dumpster Diving: Into the Trash Can

Jump back down to the kitchen floor and up the drawers to where the sink is, then click down to enter the trash can below. Inside, it’s a bit of a mess, as well as a bit of a maze – to get to certain areas, you will have to click on objects to move them. Scroll down below for help with this maze.

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Follow these steps carefully (careful, one false move and you’ll be squished!):

  1. Right at the start, move the can of tuna to the right.
  2. Jump down and move the next piece of cheese to the left, so the column does not collapse on you.
  3. Jump up through the top and keep going! Move the next can of milk to the right and follow it down.
  4. Next, go left and push the cheese left out of the way.
  5. Jump over to where the tuna can is, and push it right so it falls down. This gives you something to stand on.
  6. Stand on the tuna can and pull the next can of tuna out left. As you do so, run right so you don’t get squished!
  7. The column should collapse, allowing you to walk over the top of it to a new area.
  8. Go right, pull out the final can of tuna to the left, jump on it, and jump up to grab the Torn Page.

Once you’ve grabbed that slip of paper, you can allow yourself to get squished to bring you back to the beginning, where you can then exit the trash maze.

Living Room

Head to the living room (left of the kitchen) and use the Screwdriver while standing near the toy truck to unscrew the battery case. Take the Battery and stick that into the TV remote on the table just above the toy truck. Now go to the remote and press the big green button. It should turn the TV on.

Go up to the top of the TV and collect static from the antennas. Once you’ve got static clung to your body, jump over to the green balloon, and the static will allow you to stick onto it as you float over to the pictures on the wall.

Jump onto the picture frame, then jump left to reach the shelf with fish food.

Pour the fish food downwards, and it will fall into the fish tank below to mollify the fish. Turn off the tank’s aqua filter, jump into the tank, and grab the Diary Key in the treasure chest.

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CJ’s Bedroom

Now jump down and exit the living room, through to the next room, and reach the diary on the top shelf by jumping up the bookshelf to the plant on top and then to the top shelf to reach it.

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Use the Diary Key to unlock CJ’s diary. Inside the diary, you will that one of the pages has been torn out – which matches the Torn Page from the trash can!

Use the Torn Page where you’re standing to reveal this message: “The thief is right out the door! I’ll shrink myself to get the shrink ray and then get him later.”

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There will be a simple formula below that: lemon + paper + light. Jump down to where the lamp is on the desk and place the Piece of Paper under the lamp light. Jump on the lamp a few times so the light is shining on the paper completely, and click the switch on the lamp to turn it on.

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A message will reveal itself on the page: look for me at the school coordinates.

While you’re in the computer area of CJ’s bedroom, jump up to where the thermostat is and run on it until the setting is pointed at the red spot, heating up the room.

Go to the telescope at the far end of the room and jump onto the X/Y switches. On the X switch, run right on top of it and set it to 87. On the Y switch, set it to 16. The school coordinates are X87, Y16 – this information can be found on CJ’s cork board in the bedroom.

For this part, you’ll also need the Morse Code Key, which you should get from on top of CJ’s bed. You’ll also need the thumb drive from under CJ’s bed. To get that, jump onto the fan so it goes lower so you can reach the switch. Hit the switch, and the fan will turn on and blow away the dust under CJ’s bed. Turn the fan off and grab the Thumb Drive.

Go back to the computer and plug the thumb drive in. The password for the laptop is the name of CJ’s hero, Marie Curie, with numbers in place of certain letters for added security. Type in m4r13 cur13 – with the space – and upload the data on the thumb drive to the laptop.

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Now, go back to the right side of the bedroom and tip the trash can over on the way. The rubbish scraps should float up because of the heat coming from the vent, and you will be able to get across. Go back to the telescope and look through it.

From the school, CJ will flash you a message with her flashlight. A morse code translation mini-game will occur, but if you don’t want to analyze the codes she’s flashing, just wait for her to flash each letter and then select the right one, spelling out the message: flush the thumb drive. She wants you to flush it… literally.

Bathroom Break

Now, head left, all the way until you reach the half-open bathroom door (you can see the green tiled walls beyond) and enter. Jump up the half-open drawers to get onto the countertop, run past the sink, and keep going until you reach two switches. Jump down on the switch to the right to turn off the ventilation fan.

By the way, if you do stop by the sink and turn on the hot water faucet, you can let the mirror steam up, revealing hints for CJ’s password. But we already told you that (above).

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Anyway, run over to the hair dryer on the rack left of the sink. Jump onto the red switch to make warm air come out. Then, jump on the right of the hair dryer to make it tilt. Now, jump directly in front of the hair dryer. The heat should push you up and into the shower!

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Once in the shower area, go to the water dispenser in the bathtub and turn the warm knob. Water will start to fill the tub. You’ll also need to push a soap bar into the tub from a fixture on the wall.

Now, jump onto the bar of soap, then onto the rubber ducky, and finally out of the tub to the left where the toilet is.

Standing on top of the toilet bowl, use the thumb drive to drop it in. Then jump on top of the toiler paper and click on the flush handle. As soon as you flush, a voice will come from the living room calling, “Drat, where did she hide that darned thumb drive?”

Never too young to be driving a toy car!

Go back to the bedroom and head for the telescope, making sure the dials are set to the school coordinates: X87, Y16. CJ will flash you another message: Thief is Mr. Silva.

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You will see a dark figure pass through the science classroom where CJ is flashing you the message! You have to get back to the school to save her.

Now, get back to the toy car in the living room. Take the battery out of the TV remote and put it back into the toy truck so you can power it. Hop into the toy car and drive it all the way to the bedroom, until you see a stack of books blocking the way. Climb up to the bookshelf and push the book titled Tess’ Tree down. That will act as a ramp for you to ride over!

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Then, a short cutscene will play – you’ll jump across the ramp and break straight through the window. Like a boss!

Now it’s time for another mini-game. Keep driving the car through the streets, but as it goes, watch for things that you should avoid like sewer drains, leaky fire hydrants, and shoes – but do hit the ramps for an extra boost! Eventually, you’ll make it to the public school, PS101.

Shrinking Silva

Inside the school’s science room, CJ will tell you that while Mr. Silva has always been a great teacher, he’s betrayed her and stolen the shrink ray for himself.

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A mini-game will begin. You must run from the evil teacher, Mr. Silva, who’s holding the shrink ray and threatening to make you and CJ even smaller! For the final showdown, hide behind any object that will cover you, so that when the shrink ray is pointed at you, it will shrink the objects instead.

While hiding whenever the shrink ray draws near, make your way to the far end of the room and climb up the shelf. Then, jump up to the table and run right, hiding behind the earth globe. When the shrink ray hits the globe, instead of disappearing like the other objects you hid behind earlier, the globe will simply get smaller. Push the globe to the chair in the middle of the room, and jump on it to reach the chair.

Climb up from the chair to the table, then hide behind the lunch box for cover. Once Mr. Silva’s ray shrinks that, quickly dash right and hide behind the mirror. Your next move will be the winning move! Wait for the ray to fire again, and… this time, because it hits the mirror, the laser will bounce back and shrink Mr. Silva instead! He’ll land inside a nearby ant colony container – tiny as can be.

Now, go down and flip the switch on the shrink ray device to “grow”, bringing you and CJ back to normal size. She will award you the Island Medallion and credits to spend at the Poptropica Store. As for CJ’s science project, it’s a prize-winning display starring Mr. Silva as “The Incredible Shrunken Man”!

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Congratulations, you’ve finished Shrink Ray Island!

Looking for more walkthroughs? Check out our Island Help page! 🙂

Album Photos

These pictures appeared in a former feature known as the photo album.

Good things come in small packages.
The secret goes down the drain.
Busting out!
A gold medal adventure.

Trivia

  • Shrink Ray Island is Poptropica’s 20th island. There was a countdown timer on the homepage for its release on June 30, 2011 for members with a demo version for non-members. On July 28, 2011, it was released to the public.
  • In early November 2014, in anticipation of a SUI re-release, a Shrink Ray desktop wallpaper and printable poster were added to the revamped Tour page, and two new Store costumes were added for members: the Milk Box and Bottle Cap costumes.
  • On November 20, 2014, Shrink Ray Island was re-released as a sound-updated island (SUI) for members, with music, a bigger screen, and all the benefits of a SUI – with a demo for non-members. The Shrink Ray SUI launched to the public on December 4, 2014.
  • Shrink Ray Island was re-released for Steam on May 25, 2022.
  • There was a Shrink Ray gold card available in the Poptropica Store, a handheld item that makes characters shrink when you press spacebar while pointing it at them. It was released on July 21, 2011. It used to cost 250 credits, but to celebrate the release of the Shrink Ray SUI, it became free around November 2014.
  • Common room: Sweet Dreams Candy Shop
  • The book in CJ’s bedroom which you push down to create a ramp for the toy car is Tess’ Tree, an actual book by Jess M. Brallier, who is also the publisher of Poptropica.
  • CJ’s bookshelf contains some titles suited to her tastes such as The Jules Verne Collection, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Genetic Soup, Black Holes, Calculus, and Geometry Made Difficult.
  • CJ’s hero is Polish-French scientist Marie Curie.
  • CJ may have a love interest named Joey, as shown with the message “Joey + CJ” on her bedroom mirror, and coordinates to Joey’s house on her board.
  • Inside the trash can, there are disposed bottles of Sports Nectar, a Poptropica-invented brand first seen on Cryptids Island.
  • In CJ’s bedroom dresser, there’s a Shark Boy plushie, one of the last remaining traces of Shark Boy.
  • Shrink Shot is the preview game for this island, released on June 10, 2011. You can still play it by getting the gold card in the Poptropica Store. For getting a certain amount of points, you’ll reach a rank, each rank with its own costume prize: Hard Helmet, Bounce Ball, Propeller Hat (members), Spiked Hard Helmet (members), Spiked Bounce Ball (members). Other prizes include: Shrink Ray Balloon, Crayons, Grape Gum, Soda Bottle, Sparkle Power (members). For more details, check out our Shrink Shot Guide.

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671 thoughts on “Shrink Ray Island Guide”

  1. Thanks, although i haven’t finished the island yet. But with this guide, its really easy, cause i know what 2 do!

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    1. Depends on where you are in the quest. If you’re in CJ’s apartment, there’s a little blimp in CJ’s bedroom that acts as the regular blimp. If you’re done with the island or haven’t gotten to the apartment yet, the blimp is on Main Street by the swingset.

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      1. Thanks. Now i need help with another part……sorry:) But, i used the blow dryer to get on top of the shower curtain and i fell down into the bathtub. I can’t get out of there, and i keep turning the water on, and it dosen’t fill to the top so i can get out, and so i am kind of stuck there. I tried EVERYTHING.

  3. Thanks. i didnt use that, but i have a little way if i don’t want to get through all the hard stuff all over again, i just click on home, then click on go to supervillian island. Ta-da!

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      3. If you already took the thumb drive and plugged it in, you don’t need to be looking for it. As you said, you need to flush it. The instructions for this are under the section of the guide titled “Bathroom Break.”

  15. At the part with the toaster and the grape, I can’t jump onto the toaster! Maybe there’s something I’m not doing right…? HELP!

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  16. in first when i was at the flushing part my poptropican said i should get the data out first before destroying it i was confused so i look at this guide and it help thanks so much!!!!

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  20. I cant see the shadow of Mr. Silva? Can anyone tell me what i did wrong?

    Slanted Fish: Why do you need to see his shadow? Which part are you referring to?

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  21. um…..i accidentally left the grape on the shelf above the toaster and fell down….. now i dont know how to get back on top…. somebody please help me…..

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    1. Click on the map in the top right-hand corner of the screen, then in the bottom left-hand corner of the map screen is the restart button. Hope that helps! 😉

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  24. When I try to put the battery back into the truck , its telling me that I might be able to use it somewhere else first ? I don’t know where else to use it ? Help ?

    Slanted Fish: Use the battery with the TV remote’s battery on the table and turn the TV on. 🙂

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  27. I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of your site?
    Its very well written; I love what youve got
    to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with
    it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two pictures.
    Maybe you could space it out better?

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  29. where is the toy car???help!

    Slanted Fish: It’s in the living room. The area is called CJ’s Apartment on the Map.

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  31. I absolutely, positively, consecutively LOVE this island. I don’t think one of those words made sense.

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  32. i got the shrink ray gun from store, and i shrunk the man who shrunk me! i like shrinking everyone on poptropica.

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  34. easy way to jump to the ballon : collect static, jump of the antenna and jump on the green ballon Easy!

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  36. I accidently dropped the grape at the cereal box, like all the way at the end of the table, and now it won’t let me pick it up again D:

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  38. frend me who ever on poptropica go to your frend list and if theres a plus sine klick on it and tipe ;Erikpeters15;.

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  41. I’m stuck from trying to get from the TV to the green balloon, I can reach the red but u can’t get off it yourself. I need help -_-

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  43. yay thanks to this help blog i completed my third island Shrink Ray Island, it was soo awesome to see my character be shrunken down

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  48. where is the hard drive

    Slanted Fish: Under CJ’s bed, but you’ll need to blow the dust away. More info in the guide.

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  49. I can’t get to the top of the shower. I tried the hair dryer, but I can’t get it to propel me to the top.

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  55. I accidently got on the other side of the fan while it was going, so I couldn’t get to the other side or raise the fan. Even after I went to a new area, it was still low, so i had to restart 😦

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  58. when I get to CJ’s room, it won’t let me click on the microscope? Is there somewhere in particular you have to click?

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    1. Happened with me too. First collect the static. Then slip down for antenna then jump to stick to the balloon.

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  62. I just hate it when I don’t know why but when I need to flush the thumb drive my character says, I should back up this data before destroying it! I hate it!

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  64. Help! when I put the paper under the lamp, and I jumped enough, nothing showed up! I made sure that I did everything else, and I did everything but nothing is showing.

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    1. UPDATE: Wait I fixed it, but now it just won’t show the coordinates. It just says this “Look for me in the telescope.” School Coordinates What’s going on? 😦

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  66. You forgot about loading the thumb drive onto the computer. But everything else, GOOD JOB AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!:)

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  68. grrr i followed all the rules on this thing and i cant get past the globe part.my poptropican is to slow to push it then i tryed to do it a couple times.then i just started running for my tiny little life.then i left the island.think noodles is cool.how does he do it?

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  71. Everytime I go on top of the spatula and get the salt on it, when i jump, it doesnt fling me on top of the fridge. why is this?

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  73. thanks for this website it is awesome! seriously who do they even expect us to do some of the stuff? i mean who here would think of the quordinates 87 and 16? like what even?????

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  77. Hey I need help In the trash can I got stuck I don’t know if it saved the game but I will check
    Thanks poptropica help

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    1. Ok I restarted the trash can part and I have another part messed up The tuna that I pull out so I won’t get squished won’t come out!!! Someone tell me what I’ve got wrong please

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      1. Hey! I got the same problem before too. I don’t really remember what I did, but I’ll tell you, just try to move everything you can and maybe you can find a way out. That’s what I did. I hope this helped. (I don’t think this helped.)

  78. Hi! I have a big problem. I can jump on the green balloon, but it won’t let me jump on the pictures. Please help!

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  80. It seems like after the island was updated the trash can puzzle was changed.I can’t move the tuna can without getting squished x.x.I can’t even click on some things that should be able to move and my character just gets stuck and repeatedly jumps up and down in the same place.It frustrates me. -.- Can somebody tell me how they got the piece of paper (please) if they did? And remember,Nationwide is on your side! 🙂

    Slanted Fish: For some of the tuna cans you pull out, you will need to run away before you get squished.

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  81. yesterday I was running away and trying not to get even more shrunk by mr silva, but he kept getting me so I went to a different island but today when I went to shrink ray I looked in my backpack, i had all the stuff from when i was small, because i was big now!!!! but i didn’t have the island medallion yet WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!

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  87. The toy truck part with the ramp and crashing through the window like a boss doesn’t show for me. Like, I did everything and I got the toy truck to the room and the yellow ramp doesn’t show and the stack of books were there without the ramp. I don’t know if I’m supposed to restart or something. Is this a glitch or did I do something wrong?

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  89. I can’t see the piece of torn paper when I’m in the trash maze. Do I even need it to finish the island?

    Slanted Fish: Yes, you need the paper, which is to the very right of the trash maze.

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    1. The first three steps are right, but after that I did this:
      1. Pull the milk that is next to you over to the left.
      2. Push the cheese all the way over to the right.
      3. Now hop onto the straws to the right of you.
      4. Then hop onto the water bottle to the left, and the
      5. And then onto the straws to the right and above you.
      6. Now push the tuna to the right and jump down after it.
      7. Push the cheese on the left over to the left once more and run quickly out to the right.
      8. Now push the tuna on your right over to the right again and run out of the way (back to the left. then go back up to the higher straw platform and hop up to get the paper from there.

      Hope I helped 🙂

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      1. Oh, and when you get into the area that the paper is in, you have to pull the tuna can out to make steps

  93. THe trash can one is flawed. Either they updated this island, or he didn’t do the walkthrough of the maze correctly.

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