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Escape Series #2: The Closet


escape2j.jpgJohnBThe second installment in Shawn Tanner's Escape Series has been released: Escape Series #2: The Closet. Each game has no plot, no characters, and no motive, just bare-bones point-and-click room escaping. The first game in the series, Escape the Car, had us trapped in a car, and now we've moved indoors and are stuck inside a closet. Search the area for items you can use to help you escape!

Use the cursor to move around the room and to click on objects and interact with them. Some items can be used in combination with each other, just click on the item you want to use then move it over the second item in your inventory.

Analysis: When you get a formula right, don't mess with it. Escape The Closet doesn't try to be fancy on any front. It delivers raw room escape gaming in a short amount of time, which is why it's good. The game will likely take you less than fifteen minutes to complete and a timer at the bottom of the screen lets you know just how long it's taking.

Short and to the point. Another satisfying point-and-click game to keep the Escape Series going strong.

Play Escape Series #2: The Closet

Cheers to Vault, Andrew and Geekazoid for sending this one in!

Want more? Try AN Escape Series #1: The Car, or for more "escape" games try one of these.

Walkthrough Guide

I'm absolutely floored. I will be the first to admit, I easily lose patience with "hunt for the place to click" and get a spoiler from here to finish an escape game... finished this one in 4:34, no spoilers. Everything in here seemed fairly intuitive to me.

SO, I'm posting a walkthrough to celebrate...

  • Turn twice

  • get the coathanger

  • click on the front center of the coat

  • get the pocketwatch

  • click on the bottom of the screen (to look down)

  • examine the photograph, look at the clock in it

  • click on the toolbox

  • open the toolbox

  • get the wirecutters

  • click again to lift up the tray in the toolbox

  • get the crowbar

  • in inventory, click on the wirecutters, then click on the coat hanger

  • Click on the pocketwatch to examine it, then click on the wire rod, then click on the cover latch of the watch (at the bottom of the watch)

  • click on the watch dial

  • set the time to 3:35

  • click on the key

  • click "return", then click out to normal view

  • click at the top of the screen to see the ceiling

  • click on the crowbar, then on the boards

  • Click on the
    key, then on the hatch lock

  • PULL THE LEVER! (in caps, in case you didn't know what to do with a lever. :) )

  • click the hatch to go back down. OOh, blue!

  • click the shirt pocket

  • Get the Personal Organizer

  • click down to see the floor

  • Read the letter, note the date

  • Click on the personal organizer

  • Enter "111787" and click enter

  • Get the key

  • click return

  • click on the box

  • unlock the box with the key

  • get the ring

  • examine the ring

  • click the stone 5 times until it falls off

  • click the stone in inventory, then combine with wire rod

  • zoom out, turn to the door, and use the gem on the stick to open.

237 Comments [leave a comment]

The link doesn't work for me.

Ah, now it does. :D

hmmm....I'm close to finishing....the last Item I got was the shoehorn, and I still need to open up the personnal organizer...can I get some help as to what to do now?

i just got out....sparky, to open the organizer, you need to

use the date on the letter as the passcode. convert the date to a six digit number and enter it. hope this helps...

10 min 22 sec!

I think this one was too easy.

Sparky: any clues about what the code might be?

read the notes

the only numbers anywhere in the game... unless you count the clock

Hey 1101, hint before spoil, okay?
Otherwise it's no fun.

6:28!

This one was easier. For me anyway. I got out in 6:34, where the car took me upwards of 11 minutes.

6 min 28 to escape the car and 5 min 50 sec to escape the closet.

I escaped from the Closet, but it seems that Tom Cruise is still there :D

What's the shoehorn for?

what do u do with tthe small key?

I know that it's stupid, but how to do you get the box off the shelf?

nevermind, got it in 22:23

I keep trying to enter

17 1987

as the passcode but it keeps saying Error.

I can't figure out the code >_

I put in the date from the letter but it didn't work. Could someone just give me the code >_

ok the way you enter the code is

change the date to something like 00/00/00 ok

anyway i just got the shoe horn and dont know what to do with it i got the ruby out of the ring but now im stuck.

HELP!!

i just finished that was stupid i found out that you

combine the cut up wire with ruby but the shoe horn didnt do anything for me why did that get added

Combine the hanger and ruby then use it with the door

woot woot im out 14:25 but for me thats quick i dont normally finish at all lol but yay was a good time waster

why did the rooms change coulor i think its important in some way i mean a house like that would go for a lot of money lol

Made it in 11:32, without hints or cheats but all by myself! Man, that must be a first time ...

But did I actually use the shoehorn for anything? Cant remember, dont think so.

9:46. I did a lot better than I thought I would.

Argh! Link does not work for me

Lol sorry for this, but I couldn't resist. The point of the game is to "come out of the closet".

Got it in 10:40, it must be the first game I've completed without hints in ages. I must stop being lazy and looking here xD
Most difficult part was

working out in which format the date should be entered.

Found a bug:

if you combine the second key with the wire cutters it turns into another hanger, with which you cannot open the second locked box. I had to restart.

6:67 seconds with no help!

Everyone can do this one without a walkthrough.

what is the code for the personal orginizer

i keep entering 171987 is that right?

hey everyone...

sorry about the spoiler i posted earlier - i'm new to this, and should have hinted first. i actually realized that shortly after i posted my comment.

it won't happen again - in the meantime, thanks for pointing it out, tankgirl23.

meh, good game... 14:30 :P

but the ABSOLUTE best part of the game is if you press tab :D

Need help!!!
I have crowbar, pliers, wire pick, and picture.
Coat pocket opens, but nothing is inside.
Small door can't be picked.
What's next???

w00t! 6:21! i did look at the small hint for the organizer though. What was with the shoe horn?

how do I get the key to get up in the attic?

Arrgh! I've entered every way of the date I can think of and it still won't work! What do I have to do?

Yay! What a simple little p'n'c.
I finished in 5:52, a first for me.. :P

7:25, no hints. I didn't see any use for the shoehorn either.

please tell me how I can get the key to goup in the attic.

this is way too easy, finished it in 4:32 in my first try. normally I'm the type that get stuck easily.

I think the shoehorn doesn't have a use. It's just there to throw you for a loop.

I'm a bit farther than QOLAB. I have the

pocket watch, which I opened with the wire.

Still no idea how to open the stinking attic door.

Probably shoehorn is the reason why we got into the closet in the first place.

So we look for it, find it, and leave the closet with it. Makes sense.

Awesome! Finished in 4:56! I've never finished an escape game this fast before. I'm so proud of myself!

What?.... I used the 2nd key I got on the wire things and it made a 2nd wire thing =/

I was up to 15 min the first time because of a glitch, but I finished in 3 min the 2nd time.

Great game, Loved how there were useless items <3

did it in 14:40...

would probably have beaten it in 3 mins or less if the clock opening mechanism was more forgiving...

6:40

too easy :P

good fun though, not as creepy as the first

5 min, no spoilers needed, and

never used that shoe horn.

Woo, 5:30. Much faster than the last one.

Argh. Glitchy. I've had to re-start three or four times.

Help?

First time, I put the hands to 3:35 and nothing happened. Second time, the wire cutters wouldn't work on the hanger, and now nothing will happen with the pocket watch again. Am I doing something wrong?

I got out in 6:03. This one was easy- I didn't have to get any help at all.

I didn't use the

shoehorn

though.

I'm absolutely floored. I will be the first to admit, I easily lose patience with "hunt for the place to click" and get a spoiler from here to finish an escape game... finished this one in 4:34, no spoilers. Everything in here seemed fairly intuitive to me.

SO, I'm posting a walkthrough to celebrate...

  • Turn twice

  • get the coathanger

  • click on the front center of the coat

  • get the pocketwatch

  • click on the bottom of the screen (to look down)

  • examine the photograph, look at the clock in it

  • click on the toolbox

  • open the toolbox

  • get the wirecutters

  • click again to lift up the tray in the toolbox

  • get the crowbar

  • in inventory, click on the wirecutters, then click on the coat hanger

  • Click on the pocketwatch to examine it, then click on the wire rod, then click on the cover latch of the watch (at the bottom of the watch)

  • click on the watch dial

  • set the time to 3:35

  • click on the key

  • click "return", then click out to normal view

  • click at the top of the screen to see the ceiling

  • click on the crowbar, then on the boards

  • Click on the
    key, then on the hatch lock

  • PULL THE LEVER! (in caps, in case you didn't know what to do with a lever. :) )

  • click the hatch to go back down. OOh, blue!

  • click the shirt pocket

  • Get the Personal Organizer

  • click down to see the floor

  • Read the letter, note the date

  • Click on the personal organizer

  • Enter "111787" and click enter

  • Get the key

  • click return

  • click on the box

  • unlock the box with the key

  • get the ring

  • examine the ring

  • click the stone 5 times until it falls off

  • click the stone in inventory, then combine with wire rod

  • zoom out, turn to the door, and use the gem on the stick to open.

For some reason, whenever I set the pocket watch to

3:35

nothing happens, no key appears or anything like that. I've tried setting the watch multiple times to no avail, and have also tried reloading the game and loading it from a different site. The key just doesn't show up anywhere.

For the pocketwatch, remember...

...like on an normal clockface, when the minute hand moves, the hour hand moves as well

Did it in 2:06!

(my second time... I guess that doesn't count. My first time was about 11 minutes. I'm not so great at these things.)

I love this site!

ooooo, thanks for that, I don't often look at analog clocks these days and that bit slipped my mind.

4:21

Woot.

I love these games. =]

I needed help for the car, so that doesn't count.

However, I got out of the closet in 6:37. Pretty good, I thought.

However, for some reason the code for the cadet didn't work the first time. I happened to try it a second time, and it worked then... wierd.

9:40 no help. 2:46 second time: going for speed: 1:07

Thankyou Crazytown! That was the only part I got stuck on.

The kicker is that I actually thought about that, but ruled it out without even trying it because that's not what the clue looks like! Grrr...

Hey does anyone know what the shoehorn is for?
It took me like an hour because i tried

the date on the letter

loads of different ways except the right one grrrrrr
Anyway thanks 1101, i feel much better now

YAY! Thank you for mentioning me! :P
This was a confusing game. I think I got somewhere around 15 minutes, but I needed help for the code on the organizer, everything else I did on my own.
I replayed it once just to see how fast I could beat it, and I got 1:03!!

Hurrah, I just made a typekey account
(with a different email, I think I must have made another with my old one and forgotten it!!)
Heres to hoping it works :P

Came out of the closet in 6:54

...Wow, that sure didn't sound weird... 0_o

Gosh....so many comments....
I figured it out myself ^-^
13:53

The car one took me forever, but this one I got in 8:12 with no help...
I'm usually really bad at these, but this one didn't have any of those stupid click-the-pixel "puzzles". Just actual puzzles to figure out using what you have.
Still, maybe a bit easy?

I ended up figuring it out, and got out in about less than 3 minutes. ^_^

yes took me 22:39 but i could have gotton it in 5 mins tops i kept using the date wrong i didn't use the month first

How do I open the pocket watch? When I try to open it with the wire snips, it says that the items don't combine:(

i did it in 00:01:30 the first try... its actually really easy you just need to remember the firt one and then think of places they would hide the other tings. and i never once used the shoe horn, what the heck was that for ? any ideas

thanks for the help everyone beat it in 6:01

vida,

you ARE doing it wrong you have to

SPOILER!!

put the hour hand between the 3 and 4 an dthe minute hand on 7 (minute hand is the long one, hour is the short)

i have a feeling that shoehorn was a red herring.

anyway, the only part i really got tripped up on was figuring out what to enter into the organizer. i knew what i was supposed to be entering, i just didnt put it in the right format :)

where do i get the tiny key?! i opened the watch and set the time but there is no key!

Hehe, did it in 6:55 the first go, no spoilers. Then did a speed run - 1:11, about to try again to get it faster if possible. Good game, one of the few point+click I can complete.

second speed run, 1:00, im stopping.

For those in the UK stuck with the cadet:

Use American date format

good game, i love the first and this one is just as good.

The best part is definitely when you press tab. I lol'd.

Third speedrun, 54 seconds. stopping.

5:28 first go, no spoilers too!

Usually it takes me days to figure these out...

on my second try, i got 2:03 booyah!!!!

ok to beat it....
(only use if u really are stuck)

first you click to the left twice. get the coat hanger. click down. click the toolbox and get the pliers. click tray and get crowbar. click out. get old photo in corner. click back up. click on right side of coat and get watch. if you look at the photo, you can see that the clock says 3:35. now click on the watch. it says its stuck closed. to get it opened, combine wire snips w/ coat hanger. now click on the new wire and click it to the bottom of the watch. next, click on the knob on the watch. set time to 3:35. if nothing happens, make sure the minute hand is directly on the 7. still nothing? move the hour hand between the 3 and 4 a little, until you see a key come out the side. now click to the ceiling. use blue crowbar on board and use the key on the door.once in attic, click the lever. go back down.now click on top of the shelf. click on jacket pocket and get the personal organizer.click down and get the shoehorn. now to open the organizer, tupe in 111787 ( you get this from the date on the letter 11 [november] 11, 87 [1987]). now click on the brown box and open with the silver key. get the ring. now click on the ruby 5 times untill it pops out. now click out then up. click to the right twice untill you get to the closet door. click on the knob. now combine the wire and the ruby. now click it to the pentagon shaped hole above the door. U WIN!!!!!

what do u combine with the ruby to unlock the door?

please tell me i am stuck!!

=]

I beat it in 2:59 awsome time and without tips

beat it in 3:15 this one was the easiest passcode was even easier to find out in this one.

2nd time i got 1 minute

Wow. That game was easy. I did it in 2:13 without any hints or spoilers. =]

yay! 20 minutes! i did it without any help or anything! it would have only taked 15, i figured out the cadet code right away, but i must have entered it wrong cause that really threw me off until i tried it again.

yeah!!!! i got it in 7:16 second try! no help! just got stuck on the ruby thin and i messed up on the organiser but i got it!

3:20 sec yay me the horn id for the trapdoor

For some people not managing to figure out the password: november = 11
:)

Walkthrough for escape the closet:

-From the starting screen, turn twice until you are facing the back of the closet

-Take the coat hanger off the rack

-Click on the brown coat to open it, and take the pocket watch

-Click near the bottom of the screen to examine the closet floor

-Click on the toolbox

-Click on the latch to open it

-Take the tinsnips

-Click on the gray area of the toolbox to reveal the bottom

-Take the mini-crowbar

-Examine the pocket watch

-Use the tin snips with the coat hanger to create the wire rod

-Use the wire rod on the small hole at the bottom of the pocket watch to open it

-Pull (click) the switch on the right so you can move the watch hands
-Set the time to 3:35 (from the clock in the back of the old photograph)

-Take the tiny key and return to the closet

-Click the top of the screen to look at the ceiling

-Use the mini-crowbar to remove all the boards and use the tiny key on the keyhole

-In the attic room, pull the level to change the closet.

-Click the hole in the floor to go to the new closet

-Open the pocket of the business suit and take the personal organizer

-Examine the personal organizer and enter 111787 as the password (the date in the letter)

-Take the small key from inside

-Return to the closet, click the bottom of the screen to look at the floor

-Examine the wooden box, use the small key to open it

-Take the ruby ring

-Examine the ring. Click the ruby five times to take it out of the band

-Combine the ruby and wire rod to create the ruby key

-Face the door of the closet, examine the doorhandle

-Use the ruby key to open the pentagonal-shaped hole

I escaped in 1:23

A pair of wire cutters on the top and a crow
bar is at the bottom of the of the tool box under the coat,
combine the hanger and the wire cutters,
don't use the shoehorn,
the code for the calculator thing is 111787 from the date of the letter in the envalope

i had fun trying but i did it in 2:18 but i found it easy after a bit.

the code is 11 17 87

first time got it in 8 mins happily 4 of them naping sadly
hey i was sleepy the secret to winning is to

move the 3 on the watch not right on top of it but keep moving it slowly beetween the 3 and the 4 (the small hand not the big)

that game was really hard because i didnt know that we needed to pull the lever to change the rooms. Gosh that was stressful until i finished that point, because it took me atleast 5 retrys for a new start. Then FINALLY i got it in 5:48. Not to bad.

4:35 seconds! it was stumping for a little bit, but i caught on quickly, strangely the car was a harder one

the code for the device is like a 00/00/00 date, and if you dont know how to get the rings ruby off, just keep clicking it a lot

did the spoiler work? first time

This is the first escape the room where I did good. 4:05 with no help

ahh! i finished this game in 7 minutes and 38 seconds! this is like the first puzzle i finished by my self without the help of walkthroughs or these comments im proud of myself =D

i Beat it in 1 min and 53 seconds! i only used the cheat for the code

111787


wow!!! i finished in 2:30

...

the code to the organizer is 111787 the same as the date on the message to the grandson

Wow i didnt know how easy that would be...4:12 first time with no help and the only thing i got stuck on was the organizer which i figured out alone and then i tryed again and got 51 seconds

All I need help wit is the personal organizer
i know the code is 171987, or 198717 but it says ERR

I DID IT IN 1:23 BEAT THAT YEAH

did it in 1:18!!!!
yay!!!

What is the key in the watch for?

The Point of the Shoehorn is---

To make you ask questions

Apparently this is a US-made game which uses the US date format... I'm from England and it was the last thing I thought of that 111787 meant Nov 17, 1987. I didn't realise until 10 seconds after I read the spoiler.

the game was cool the key iz in the

watch

and the

pda

hahahaha it was fun

beat this people 31 seconds no one can beat that so trey suckas

best time is 40 seconds beat that sucka!

38 sec any 1 beat that ??

this is not working
where was the tiny key

where can i find the key when i have set the time to 3:35? theres no key that fell... how is that?

the code is 111787

Entertainig and fairly easy - easier than the other ones, anyway, particularly the phone booth one! The "time traveling" (I'm guessing that's what happened) element was fun and unexpected. What the heck was the shoehorn for, anyway? An unfinished thought, perhaps?

where is the key i did the clock but i didnt see a key!!

I put in 3:35 but i didnt get the key

if you wanna know, make sure the hour hand is in the middle of the 3 and 4, and a key will appear on the side (compartment). and the secret code is 111787

the game was excellent i tried the car one and i couldnt get out and this one i tried first and go out in 9:54 then i did it again and got out in 1:31 it was excellent

Wow! My time was only 5:09 wooo! I'm really happy with my time.

The inventory navigation is not forgiving...

If the ruby and the wire are not on the same screen of the inventory, it takes a delicate hand to scroll over to combine them. Took me several tries.

Think of how the Americans write the date.

The password is

111787 and once you get the ring click on it a couple of times and then combine it with the wire rod. By the way the shoehorn is useless.

[Edit: Spoiler tags added. -Pam]

i finished in 4:54

I can't get the tiny key.

where is the key

HAH good game, i beat it in 2:09 lol try and beat that

i did the car in 2:34 and wardrobe in 3:17

1:01 but i clicked on an ad, i would have been at about 50 lol, plus i was on laptop.

Why can't I find the key in the watch? I set it to 3:35, but it's not showing up!

Aye, ONLY 11:46! Much longer than with car! After... 5 minutes thinking about the code

I tried 171987, then 111987

I found it:

111787 because I forgot to remove "19" in the date

I could do it under 7 mins!

wheres the key ?!
someone help plzzzz

Poop -

The key:

Is in the watch. Use the pliers to cut the wire hanger, then use the resulting item to open the watch. Set the watch to 3:35 and a drawer will pop out with the key.

wow I suck... 4:02

29 seconds oh burnage!

That one was easy.
My friend couldn't get it so i tried it for her and i beat it in exactally 4:00 on the dot. Piece of cake.

there must be a glitch in the game or something because...

i combined the ruby and rod wire and tried to open the door but it still says needs to be combined with something before you can use it. Came here to see why and realised i had everything done

Guys, the shoehorn doesn't do anything! I beat the game and it has no purpose. And the secret code is the date on the letter, change it to **/**/** . That's it.

0:27!!:D haha try to beat that time!! ;P but what was the shoehorn for?????

plus. check out my photography site! uploading new pics from our winter photo shoot soon!!!

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