These cheats and tricks have been compiled from various sources. However, there are no guarantees that they will work. Please save your game before attempting the cheats (especially the built-in cheat mode) and use them at your own risk.

[EGA original version] Cheat Mode

The game has an in-built debug/cheat mode that can be toggled on and off simply by typing the phrase "razzle dazzle root beer" at any time. Once the cheat mode is on, you can use the following Alt+Key combinations to do various things, like change your character's statistics; obtain gold or other useful items; and even teleport to almost any location in the game.

The cheat mode is automatically toggled off when you exit a particular game screen. However, it is recommended that you explicitly toggle it off by typing the phrase before leaving the screen.

Skill Codes

Inventory Item Codes

[EGA original version] Learn All Skills Upon New Character Creation

This cheat, that occcurs due to bug in some EGA versions of QFG1, lets your character learn skills not available to him upon startup without incurring a 15-point penalty from the initial pool of 50 points. To do this, in your character creation screen:

• Ensure that you have at least 16 points in the available points pool.
• Select an unknown skill (0 points) and use the arrow key

Increasing Lockpick ability Trick

Those with lockpicking skills and a lockpick or a Thieves' toolkit can use this pseudo-cheat or trick to improve their lockpicking skill very quickly.

• Make sure your lockpicking skill is at least 40 before using this trick or you'll end up dying of cerebral hemorrhage.
• [EGA original version] Simply "pick nose" repeatedly. And you can even do this in broad daylight!
• [VGA remake version] Just click the lockpick or toolkit on the hero.

[VGA remake version] Unlimited Money Cheat

Basically you can sell an unlimited number of mushrooms from the fairy ring to Amelia Appleberry, the healer. Unlike the EGA version, she will continue to buy the mushrooms even when she says she has all the mushrooms she needs. This cheat is probably due to a programming bug in the remake.

[VGA remake version] Learning the Thief Sign Cheat

As a mage or a fighter, you will normally not know how to make the thief sign and thereby access the Theives' Guild. However, if you click on Crusher in the tavern, you will now be able to make the sign. Go into the alley at night and obtain the password to the Guild from Slink & Sneak. Although you won't gain any thief skills that you didn't already have; you now have full access to the Thieves' Guild.