Hold down Ctrl + Opt and then type "win", to reveal a menu of potential game events.

Hold down control and type "WIN".

Name your first colony "Charlotte". Now you will have extra gold. Change the colonies name into something else. Now you can build another colony with the name "Charlotte" and you will have 50000 gold again.

Hold down command-shift-option and type "bedtimeforbarney" followed by enter, and type command-"icheatbecauseistink".

There are two known bugs within the game.

1. If your wagons and caravan won't load or unload, try double-clicking and then dragging.

2. Trade routes sometimes don't run to the city you indicate. Go to won't work unless in more or less straight line.

You should produce a lot of liberty bells in the early stages of the game as the early acquisition of founding fathers is very important and many less bells are needed at this point. Before you can afford to build schools and colleges, send the indentured servants or free colonists to nearby Indian villages and they will teach them special skills in which they excel. Use scouts to explore the map area and find out the lay of the land and where the other colonists and Indians are concentrating their colonization efforts. Also be alert for all the gold coin symbols and explore them as soon as possible, as well. There are many large amounts of gold possible, in addition to the Fountain of Youth, which creates a small flood of colonists wanting to come to the Americas. If you want any active unit to go to a particular location on its own, you can hold the mouse button down on the new location and the mouse cursor will change to Go To, which will assign this route.