Theme Park
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Thanks to Paul Barrett in Essex who wins a £25 mail order voucher.

Planning your park wisely and keeping the punters happy is the key to success.

1. The £10,000 prize at the end of the year is important. Here's how you get it. On December 29, take out the biggest loan you can and you'll get the cash for being the richest. Then dispose of the loan.

2. Put a toilet near the exit - this stops people going home just because they need the toilet.

3. Pour money into research. Developing rides, staff training, getting a large warehouse and new shops are the most important.

4. Listen to the advisor carefully, even if he becomes a real pain.

5. Don't increase your gate prices by more than 5 per cent a month or folk will complain vociferously.

6. Squeeze rides into a small space - this increases the park value.

Don't put food stalls right next to rides or the park will be full of puking punters.

7. When the queues get long, put some entertainers near them. If the queues get too long, increase the ride speed and decrease the time. S-shaped queues save space.

8. Put a security guard at the gate to stop spies from stealing your ideas.

9. Thugs can destroy your rides. Place a teddy man in front of the thug and when poor teddy bloke gets beaten up, the security man escorts said thug off site.

10. Create a path (with fences) and a nice lake and employ three handymen to keep the paths tidy.

11. Put shops near ride exits ensuring folk walk past them to earn more money. Employ a handyman for every two shops to keep litter down.

12. The longer and higher your rides are, the greater the chance of winning prizes at the end of the year. Put the popular rides at the front of the park.

Snake rides are popular but erratic. Have a mechanic on call.

13. Snake rides tend to be the most unreliable - they cost time and repair money. Have one mechanic for every two rides - this minimises repair time. If a ride has smoke coming out of it, close it or it may explode. Don't wait for the mechanic to close it for you.

14. Buy the land at the earliest opportunity - it could save you up to £40K per year. Pay off the loan as soon as you can to save on interest. Also, if you can, buy shares in your own company early in the game because it has huge benefits later on.

15. When your theme park is profitable and all the land is being used, sell up and move to New Zealand where everything is wonderfully cheap.

Level playing field
Please help. I'm stuck on the excellent platformer Kid Chaos. Got any level codes?
K Chaos (honest!), Kent

Thanks to Mr Wilson of Blackpool for the following codes. Level Two - LILBDKEAJNA. Level Three - NMOHCKGLGAB. Level Four - EQAOHKRBIAC. Level Five - PFQOOAICKTN.

Bancheat
I've been playing Banshee for a while now and although it's brilliant, I could do with a hand. Any offers?
Roger Tomkins, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks

You're quite right, Banshee is a thoroughly brilliant game. And tricky too. But try this cheat , Roger. When you're on the title screen, type in FLEV17 and then press Return. If the cheat has worked, the screen flashes and lo, you now have infinite lives.

I spy, for the KGB
I'm stuck at the end of the first chapter in KGB. Verto keeps killing me - I know I have to knock him out, but how? This has caused me no end of grief for almost a year now.
P Cunningham, West Kirby, Wirral

When Verto gets to the door, hide behind it and then attack him immediately. Inspect the now (hopefully) unconscious Verto and take the blue piece of paper. Use the camera on it, inspect the resulting photo and then put the blue paper back onto Verto. Hotfoot it to Department P.