What are all these tools scattered throughout the game?
Answers:
1. Have you examined them?
2. Many of them are rather excitingly high-tech, aren't they?
3. They don't really have much use...
4. ...until the very end of the game.
5. See the question about opening the hatch in the Heart of Gold section.
6. Marvin will ask for one of ten different tools.
7. A list of all ten, and their locations, follows. You shouldn't look at this list unless you're completely stumped, because it will give away a lot.
8. Flathead screwdriver: in your Bedroom. Toothbrush: in your Bedroom. Tweezers: inside Trillian's handbag. Molecular hyperwave pincer: on the Bridge. Ionic diffusion rasp: in the Engine Room. Hypersonic pliers: in the Engine Room. Thermo-fusion chisel: in Marvin's Pantry. Laser-assisted monkey wrench: inside the toolbox on the speedboat. Ultra-plasmic vacuum awl: in the War Chamber. Number twelve asteroid paint chipper: you're holding it when you return from your adventure at the end of the Traal scene.