If you have spent any time at all with Songs of Glimmerwick, you already know that the flute maker near the start of the game is a wonderfully strange little puzzle box. Walk up, answer four choices, and out comes a flute. The problem is that nothing tells you which answers lead to which instrument, so most players grab whatever they get on the first try and keep moving. I wanted the full set, so I sat down and mapped every combination I could wring out of that encounter. This guide is the result — the answers I actually used, organized so you can stop guessing and start collecting.
What You Are Actually Choosing
Each attempt at the flute maker comes down to four picks in a row. The first slot is a flavor ingredient, the second is a preparation style, the third is where the material is sourced from, and the last is the price you pay. Change any one of those and the finished flute changes with it. The 1000 price tag stays constant in every combination I found, so you never have to worry about that final slot — it is essentially fixed. The real variety lives in the first three answers, and that is where the collecting gets interesting.
Across all my attempts I ended up with 6 different flute types. Six is the number I can stand behind right now. If there turn out to be more hiding in some combination I have not tried, that is exactly the kind of thing worth shouting about — the comment section on a guide like this is usually where the good finds surface, and I would happily fold any new ones back in.
All Flute Types and Their Answer Combinations
Here is the part you came for. I have laid out every flute with the full set of answers that produce it, since a few of these are forgiving enough to come from more than one path. Pay attention to the ones with long lists — those are the easiest to stumble into by accident, and also the easiest to misread if you are rushing.
| Flute | Answer Combination |
|---|---|
| Cobalt Juniper | Acorn — Honeyed — Sea — 1000 |
| Elder Rosemary | Acorn — Spiced — Sea — 1000 |
| Ghost Pine | Crystal — Pickled — Sea — 1000 Crystal — Pickled — Waterfall — 1000 Crystal — Spiced — Sea — 1000 Crystal — Spiced — Waterfall — 1000 |
| Ochrebark | Crystal — Salted — Rain — 1000 Crystal — Salted — Brook — 1000 Crystal — Pickled — Rain — 1000 Crystal — Pickled — Brook — 1000 Crystal — Spiced — Rain — 1000 Crystal — Spiced — Brook — 1000 Crystal — Honeyed — Rain — 1000 Crystal — Honeyed — Brook — 1000 Spark — Honeyed — Rain — 1000 |
| Rusted Oak | Crystal — Salted — Sea — 1000 Crystal — Salted — Waterfall — 1000 Crystal — Honeyed — Sea — 1000 |
| Wenge | Acorn — Honeyed — Rain — 1000 Dew — Honeyed — Rain — 1000 |
How I Would Approach the Hunt
The structure of these combinations is what makes the set manageable once you see it. Start with the first answer and you quickly notice a split: Acorn, Crystal, Dew, and Spark each open up their own small family of results. If you are chasing one specific flute, lock that first slot down and then experiment only with the second and third. That saves you a mountain of repeat trips, because changing the first answer alone throws you into an entirely different branch.
Ochrebark is the one that surprised me most. Its list is enormous compared to the others, and it seems to absorb a huge range of middle and third-slot answers as long as you lead with Crystal and land on Rain or Brook. If you find yourself getting Ochrebark over and over while trying for something else, that is your sign the third slot drifted away from Sea or Waterfall. Nudging that back is usually all it takes to break out of it.
The single-answer flutes are the delicate ones. Cobalt Juniper and Elder Rosemary each came from exactly one path in my runs, and they are separated by a single word — Honeyed versus Spiced. That is a tight margin, so read your second choice carefully before you commit. Miss it and you will hand back a flute you already own without realizing it.
Credit Where It Is Due
I did not build this on my own stubbornness alone — a lot of this came out of comparing notes with other players poking at the same maker. Six is where my count sits, and I fully expect it to grow. If you have pulled a flute that is not on this table, or you spot a combination I typed wrong, tell me. I would rather fix it than leave a bad answer sitting here for someone else to trip over.
