Use Targeting to lock on to enemies: you keep facing them, can circle around them and dodge with jumps and rolls.
Hold the sword button to charge a Spin Attack. Once you have the Magic Meter, the charged Spin Attack becomes stronger and uses magic.
Deku Nuts flash and stun most nearby enemies – useful against groups and fast foes.
Many enemies leave themselves open right after they attack. Block with your shield, then strike.
Bounce Deku Scrubs' nuts back at them with your shield. Some scrubs offer to sell you something once you have beaten them.
Equipment
The Deku Shield burns if it catches fire; the Hylian Shield does not.
Like Likes can swallow your shield or tunic – defeat them quickly to get it back.
The Giant's Knife and Biggoron's Sword are two-handed, so you cannot use a shield with them.
The Iron Boots make you sink in water but you cannot run in them. The Hover Boots let you walk on air for a moment but have almost no grip.
The Goron Tunic protects against heat and the Zora Tunic lets you breathe underwater – both are adult only.
Health, magic and bottles
A fairy in a bottle revives you automatically when you run out of hearts.
Playing Zelda's Lullaby, Epona's Song, the Song of Time or the Sun's Song next to a Gossip Stone makes a fairy appear.
Great Fairy fountains refill your hearts and magic every time you visit.
Cows give Lon Lon Milk if you play Epona's Song next to them with an empty bottle.
The Lens of Truth drains magic while active – switch it off when you do not need it.
Exploring
The Sun's Song switches between day and night. Many Gold Skulltulas only appear at night, and some characters and shops are only around at certain times.
The Shard of Agony (Stone of Agony on N64) signals when you are close to something hidden, such as a hidden grotto.
Magic Beans: buy them from the bean seller at Zora's River as a child and plant them in soft soil. In the adult era they grow into leaf platforms that carry you to otherwise inaccessible places (for example several Pieces of Heart). There are 10 beans to buy.
Bugs released on soft soil reveal hidden Gold Skulltulas.
Bombs and the Megaton Hammer open cracked walls and many hidden grottos; Song of Storms opens some others.
Kaepora Gaebora, the owl, gives advice at key places; on the Death Mountain summit he can fly the child back down.
Rupees beyond your wallet's limit are lost – upgrade your wallet (Gold Skulltula rewards) before collecting large amounts.
Side activities
A cow for Link's house: once you ride Epona as an adult, take on Malon's obstacle course at Lon Lon Ranch. Finish faster than her 50-second record and a cow moves into Link's house in Kokiri Forest. Bring an empty bottle and play Epona's Song next to it for free Lon Lon Milk.
The running man: as a child you will see him jogging laps around Hyrule Field. If you carry the Bunny Hood from the mask trade, he buys it and pays as many Rupees as your wallet can hold.
Racing the running man: in the adult era he rests in the tent in Gerudo Valley and challenges you to a race to the bridge at the Lost Woods. No matter how fast you are, he crosses the line one second ahead of you – the race has no prize, only your time is noted.
Saving and continuing
When you continue a saved game inside a dungeon, you start at the dungeon entrance.
In the overworld, a child restarts in Link's house and an adult in the Temple of Time.
Your items and progress are kept regardless of where you restart.
Using this app
Use the Child map for things you do as a child and the Adult map for the adult era.
Locations that require items you do not have yet can be skipped and checked off later – revisiting areas at both ages is part of the game.
In Master Quest, use the Master Quest dungeon markers; the overworld markers are the same in both versions.