Do I need Flash or the Mach Bike?

No. Cut, Rock Smash and Strength are the only required field moves.

Can I earn a reward twice?

No. Each puzzle reward is collected once.

What should I do after earning several badges?

Return to the house and clear each newly available puzzle in sequence.

Where is the Trick House?

It stands on Route 110, between Slateport and Mauville. The Trick House on the map opens every room inside it, the eight puzzles included.

Trick House Guide: All 8 Puzzles in Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald

Every Trick House puzzle on Route 110: when each of the 8 unlocks, the HMs you need, where the Trick Master hides, and all rewards up to the final tent.

Published 28 Aug 2026 · Updated 24 Sep 2026

The Trick House is an eight-part side quest on Route 110, between Slateport City and Mauville City. Each visit hides the Trick Master, opens a new maze and ends with a reward. This guide lists every unlock, requirement, prize, hiding place and secret code.

Game: Ruby Sapphire Emerald
Where: Route 110
Puzzles: 8 visits, unlocked by story progress and badges — each with its own maze
Reward: One prize per puzzle; see the progression table below

Route 110 — the Trick House stands on the route between Slateport and Mauville.

Open this place on the map

How the Trick House works

Every visit starts in the same small entrance room, and the Trick Master is always hiding somewhere in it — each puzzle has its own hiding object, listed in the table further down. A visit begins by walking the room and pressing A on that piece of furniture until he jumps out.

The player in the Trick House entrance room: a low table with four cushions, two potted plants, a dresser, a cupboard, two round windows and a scroll on the back wall — The entrance room holds every hiding place: the table, the cushions, the two potted plants, the dresser, the cupboard and the round windows. The scroll on the back wall is the way into the maze. Select the image to open the entrance room on the map. In-game screenshot, Pokémon Emerald (Game Boy Advance). © Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.

Find the Trick Master Search the entrance room until the hidden Trick Master reveals himself.
Enter behind the wall scroll Use the passage behind the scroll after the Trick Master opens the maze.
Copy the secret code Find the second scroll inside the maze and read its code.
Unlock the final door Write the code on the locked door, meet the Trick Master and collect the reward.

All 8 puzzles: unlocks, requirements and rewards

Trick House puzzle progression
Puzzle	Unlocks after	Requirement or mechanic	Reward
1	First visit	Cut through trees	Rare Candy
2	Dynamo Badge	Use switches to cross holes	Timer Ball
3	Heat Badge	Rock Smash and colored doors	Hard Stone
4	Balance Badge	Strength boulders	Smoke Ball
5	Feather Badge	Five Mechadoll questions	TM12 Taunt
6	Mind Badge	Rotating-gate maze	Magnet
7	Rain Badge	Spin tiles and direction switches	PP Max
8	Enter the Hall of Fame	Sliding-floor maze	Red Tent, Blue Tent, or a choice in Emerald

Tip — Only three field moves matter: Bring Cut, Rock Smash and Strength for the puzzles that require field moves. There is no Flash room and no Mach Bike section. A wrong Mechadoll answer restarts that room.

Four of the rooms are solved by reading the floor itself. In Puzzle 2 each button slides a platform over one of the holes, and nothing tells you which one — press them all. In Puzzle 3 every switch swaps the doors: the red ones open and the blue ones shut, or the other way round, and Rock Smash rubble covers the entrance and some of the switches. In Emerald’s Puzzle 7 the Trainers stand on spin tiles that turn whenever you trigger a switch; Ruby and Sapphire build this room from levers instead. Puzzle 8 is polished floor lined with pots: you slide until something stops you, so every pot is a brake. The other four rooms are built from things the game places at run time — trees, boulders, the Mechadolls and the rotating gates — and the map’s room pictures do not draw them.

Trick House Puzzle 2 room in Pokémon Emerald — The four floor-puzzle rooms as Emerald lays them out — each opens on the map

Trick House Puzzle 3 room in Pokémon Emerald — The four floor-puzzle rooms as Emerald lays them out — each opens on the map

Trick Master hiding spots and secret codes

The eight entrance-room searches
Puzzle	Hiding object	Secret code
1	Desk	Trick Master is fabulous.
2	Tree	Trick Master is smart.
3	Dresser	Trick Master is coveted.
4	Window	Trick Master is cool.
5	Planter	Trick Master is a genius.
6	Cupboard	Trick Master is my life.
7	Window	Trick Master is huggable.
8	Cushion	Trick Master I love.

The final puzzle and reward

Puzzle 8 opens after entering the Hall of Fame. Clear its sliding floors to receive a secret-base tent: Red in Ruby, Blue in Sapphire, or your choice of the two in Emerald. The Trick Master then leaves a note and departs. Check beneath his final cushion for a hidden Nugget.

The player facing the Trick Master in his room at the back of the Trick House, beside a low table and two cushions — The Trick Master’s room behind the locked door, where every reward is handed over. After Puzzle 8 he is gone, and the Nugget lies hidden on the spot where he stands here. Select the image to open the Trick Master on the map. In-game screenshot, Pokémon Emerald (Game Boy Advance). © Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.

The player beside the Trick House and its sign on Route 110 in Pokémon Emerald — The Trick House stands on Route 110 between Slateport and Mauville. Select the image to open its entrance on the map. In-game screenshot, Pokémon Emerald (Game Boy Advance). © Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.

The Trick House: quick answers

Do I need Flash or the Mach Bike?: No. Cut, Rock Smash and Strength are the only required field moves.
Can I earn a reward twice?: No. Each puzzle reward is collected once.
What should I do after earning several badges?: Return to the house and clear each newly available puzzle in sequence.
Where is the Trick House?: It stands on Route 110, between Slateport and Mauville. The Trick House on the map opens every room inside it, the eight puzzles included.

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