Sphere


sphere1.jpgJohnBSphere is a great-looking room escape by Japanese developer neutral. The visuals have a wonderful polished 3D appearance that seem a bit surreal at times, almost as if you were inside a doll house. The challenge level is an almost perfect mix of vague clues and helpful hints that keep you interested without frustrating you.

As the usual story goes, you're trapped in a room and need to find a way to get out. Navigate using the mouse and the arrows that appear on the sides of the screen. Search for items in every corner of the room, including beneath the furniture and in-between objects. A single click lets you pick up items and store them in your inventory. Some items can be combined, so experiment with everything you grab to see what turns up.

Analysis: Sphere isn't too difficult and the puzzles don't involve a lot of random clicking. The clues you'll stumble across do a great job of guiding you to the goal without being overtly obvious. A handy save feature lets you stop and resume at any point in the game.

Sphere is definitely one of the best-looking room escape games on the web, right up there with Il Destino and the stylish O Quarto. The gameplay is smooth and the puzzles are just right, making it a great experience on every front. Play Sphere.

Cheers to Sean, Amy, Jan.jan, Alex, Arturo and Msimperfect for sending this one in!

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Walkthrough Guide

complete walkthrough below:

  • Click on the desk.

  • Click to the right of the desk, to see the side of the desk.

  • Get the piece of paper.

  • Uncrumple the piece of paper.

  • Open the bottom drawer of the desk.

  • Use the code on the paper to open the box (you have to rotate the paper).

  • Get the key and use the key on the second drawer in the desk.

  • Get the screwdriver.

  • Lift up the cushions on the couch and get the pole and a marble.

  • Look under the couch and get the pencil.

  • Look under the table to the left of the couch and get a photo (note the colour of the border) and a marble.

  • Look at the plant to the left of the couch and get a piece of mud and a marble.

  • Look to the left of the plant and get a marble.

  • Use the screwdriver to open the grate.

  • Take the screws and the key.

  • Take a marble from beside the wooden drawers. Use the key to open the top drawer.

  • Take a picture of a bunny (actually itís a duck). note itís colour.

  • Take an empty glass from the bottom drawer.

  • Look to the right of the couch.

  • Take a marble and a box.

  • Put the 3 white marbles in the top of the box and the 2 green marbles in the bottom of the box.

  • Put the box onto the light under the desk and note the color of the picture.

  • Read the books on the desk and use the pencil to work out what was on the torn-out page.

  • Note the colour of the square.

  • Use the pole to get a marble from the hanging plant.

  • Click on the wall to the right of the hanging plant to see a hidden panel.

  • Use the colours you have noted so far to solve the puzzle and get the key.

  • Use it to open the door.

  • Turn on the tap and fill the glass with water.

  • Put the mud in the water.

  • Empty out the muddy water in the sink.

  • Take the frog out of the glass.

  • Take a wooden platform, 2 marbles (one is in the plant), and some toilet paper from the end of the bathroom.

  • Use the tap to wet the toilet paper.

  • Use the wet toilet paper to clean the shiny patch on the plantpot by the sofa.

  • Use the code to open the box on the toilet and take a key and another marble.

  • Use the key to open the top desk drawer and take the photo.

  • Put the wooden platform on the wooden balance thing.

  • Turn the balance over and put the screws in to hold it in place.

  • Put the frog on the picture on the wall and open the panel.

  • Use the balance to weigh the marbles to solve the equations.

  • Use the pole to pull down the ladder and escape.

309 Comments [leave a comment]

Yayyy...finally a game that i suggested... :-)

Its an amazing game!! :-)

That was kind of neat.

Too bad I couldn't get through the last bit without a walkthrough. :D

Hooray for humorous translations! I was hooked from the intro. It's visually well done, and doesn't have any "2x2 white pixels on a grey background" type of pixel click.

(I also like the "You found something" music)

By the way, there are three books on the desk: you can click on all of them for three picture-hints.

i have most of the items, i just dont know what to do with everything! can someone help me i have

perhaps this is a spoiler

3 gray balls
red ball
black ball
2 green balls
screws
screwdriver
photo of kittens
bunny drwaing
code paper
box
pencil
cane
glass
brown thing?


im stuck at the weird looking balance in the drawer

I found the

teeter totter thing

now what?

After punching holes into the box, Setting it over the light under the coffee table next to the plant yields nothing

Is it a bug?

I have found lots of stuff, no idea what to do with them though.

Betty-
Have you

used the pencil in the book with the torn page?

linda: I couldn't put it there, but it worked on the other light.

I've got as far as

Opening the bathroom, using the frog on the picture, building the balance, and now appear to be missing a ball (at least, don't have enough to fill all the holes in the panel with the = signs on.

Never mind got the

teeter totter thingy

Linda:

is there anwhere else you can try?

Lonetrombone

The balance needs another piece and screws before you can use it. You need to get the other piece from behind the locked bathroom door.

Guys where is this

teeter totter thing?

Also:

The Brown thing is a frog

yeah, brute forcing it works too. Thanks lone trom (T.T)

I've advanced to the picture of flowers, found the strange addiction.. i mean addition panel. yellow sphere? don't have that...

i could use a hint. i have:

3 white balls, gray ball, 2 green balls, red ball, cup, brown thing, pencil, cube with hole, hook, cat picture, and box code paper

What am I missing? How do I open the bathroom?

laptopdude
Have you got the

key for the door

yet?

Yes I beat it!!!

Here's a hint:

Notice the Smudge on the Large Plant's Pot? I wonder if it can be cleaned off...

Aha! Solved it. Nice puzzle at the end.

Oops, meant to put a spoiler tag on that question...

Anyway, I have no

door key

.
And what the heck does that

butterfly image

mean?

Not to mention the

flower drawing

... That has me baffled as well.

Dan Someone

I guess you have yet to find the panel on the blue wall just below the hanging plant.

Dan Someone

This is the part where you get to click furiously in order to find a secret panel.

That frog seems strangely cheerful considering it has no forelimbs.

jan.jan, i do not yet have a key.

I really need help

What is the wet paper used for?

I found 13 items

3 white, 2 green, one red, and one gray sphere, the mud covered frog, a cane, a box, and a red pencil, and the picture of the kitties

and two secrets-one is the contents of the red book and the other is

the butterfly

does someone have more?

where is the pencil?

I have the missing teeter totter piece as well as the screws, but I can't put it together, what do I do?

Alright.

i opened the safe in the drawer and found the balance in the other drawer. now what?

I have the

other piece to the balance and the screws,

but I can't figure out

how to assemble the balance!!

Got it. Thanks. Now...

I can't seem to attach the piece to the balance, no matter how I try to use the screws or screwdriver. Any help?

I've seen the butterfly and flower, but what/where are the other to parts for that hidden panel? How do I open the box in the drawer?

Never mind, I figured that out. But...

What do I do with my melted frog? Or have I completely blown it by putting the frog in the water?

I'm really close to completing the game, but I can't figure something out.

The puzzle that was behind the flower picture with all the balls and equal signs. What do I do? I'm stumped!

On the hidden panel:

Two of the images (the green and the blue) have already been revealed, so read earlier comments if you can't figure them out. As for the other two...
Yellow: Just look for the color yellow among things you've collected.
Red: There's a famous optical illusion involved in this one. Try looking at one of your collected items in a different way...

Um.

Butterfly??? Where is it? I've found the panel, and I thought I knew the right colors for everything but the butterfly, but then I went and entered them in on the panel and nothing happens when I press the button that makes the tray slide out.

This game reminds me alot of The Crimson Room

Also. With the box --

how do I punch holes in it?

Gah, I'm so bad at these.

I got the scrap of paper with the keypad combination and inputted it in the box, but the box won't open! I have gray ball, 3 white balls, green ball, mud, blue hook, red pencil, empty mug.

Made it with no hints!
Two places that got me stuck for a long time: (I'm including the problem and the solution as different spoilers, so you can see if you want the hint or not)

  1. Problem:

    Attaching the platform to the balance.


    Solution:

    Once you've rested the platform on the arm, you have to click the base of the balance to put the skrews in the bottom

  2. Problem:

    Getting the toilet paper wet.


    Solution:

    You can't use the glass full of water. Just go stick the paper straight under the tap.

About the frog :

Use the cleaned frog on the flower painting on the wall

As for the colored boxes with the symbols on them (butterfly, rabbit, duck, flower, dog, cat, etc)--

Remember those optical illusions that can be more then one picture in one, depending on the way you look at it?

I need help as well. How do I get the yellow ball from the wall?

Need help with the hidden panel icons:

Orange: Butterfly, from the projection
Green: Bunny, from the drawing
Red: Flower, from the book scribbling
Blue: Cat, from the border of the cat picture
Yet it doesn't work. Why?

Alas! In my previous post I made a terrible mistake.

The colors change each time! Therefore, the colors I mentioned are not necessarily the same ones that anyone else will have. I apologize if I confused anyone.

Nod:

you sure that it's a rabbit?

How do I get into the

bathroom

?
And also:

I know three of the codes for the wall panel, but what is the other?
I have:
Green Bunny
Red Flower
and Orange Butterfly
I think the last one is blue kitten, but it doesn't work
(the colors do change of the pictures, btw)

Nod:

It's not actually a bunny. Look at it another way

Nod:

Look @ the picture of the bunny...is it really a bunny?

It looks like a duck to me :P

nod
The colours change each time you play. Also, are you sure you've got it right for the green one?

nod:

Note that the bunny also looks like a duck...

I'm not actually sure whether that's it or not, as I can't get that darn thing to work for me either (and a couple of my colors are changed from yours -- for instance, the border is orange for me).

Usually I dislike 'escape the room' type games because of the frustrating pixel hunting, but this game only has one of those puzzles.

Right now I am stuck at the wall panel, the one with the yellow ball. Can anyone gie me a hint?

Help please, how do I get anything fform the box? i try clicking on it on top of the lights on the floor, but nothing happens.

Brandon

The keypad code - the piece of paper with the code on it looks as though its been torn out of somehing, right?

i have

3 white balls, 2 black, 2 green, 2 red.

Am I missing a ball?

David
What have you collected/done so far?

for the = panel i have

green=green
black=white,green
white,red=white,red
green,black,red=white,gold

where am i wrong?

Chrysanthemum
Have you found the

pencil

yet?

Ooh, that is sneaky. Thanks.

I have a green picture of a rabbit, in side profile. I see an icon of what looks like a rabbit, with two big tall ears. I'm as sure as I can be, a lot more sure than I am about the blue cat.
Icon 1:
The box on the light shows me a picture of an orange butterfly. So I figure that the butterfly icon is a safe bet for the orange square.
Icon 2:
Green bunny, see above.
Icon 3:
The red book, used with the red crayon, reveals that the red box with an arrow is pointing to a flower. So I figure the red flower icon is a safe bet.
Icon 4:
The picture of kitties in a bathtub has a blue border around it - that's the only clue I have to go on for the blue icon. That's the one I'm most worried about.
So you tell me straight, have any of my methods been wrong?

I have 3 white balls, 2 green balls, i gray ball, the dirt frog like thing, cane, red pen, box with whole punched out, glass, red ball, screwdriver, screws, cat picture, torn page with code for safe box, and paper with rabbi on it.

help por favor

I just played this last night over on Nordinho. Here are two major end game spoiler links from there:

Some math to help you with the wood scale:
First Hint

And if you still can't solve it check out the third hint in this link for a

Nod:

Is it a rabbit or is it a duck? :P

I opened the box Is that drawing a rabbit or a bird? for the red do I use the cat from the cat picture with the pink border? Or the red flower drawing?

jan.jan -- Yep, I have. And I have used it

in the book with the torn-out page. It showed me the flower

Is there somewhere else I'm supposed to use it?

Nod:

Try looking at your drawing of a rabbit from a slightly different perspective. It's actually a fairly well-known optical illusion/ambiguity....

Wow, the thing with the marbles really had me stumped until...

I assigned them numbers and wrote it down on paper: give the lightest one "1" and see what equals two or three of them. That should turn it from trial-and-error algebra into simple addition.

Oh, and it turns out there are a couple of places you have to click that aren't readily apparent. Whoops.

Okay, I succeeded :D
Great game.

Okay.

I have all of the color/animal combinations but ONE. For SURE, I have them right. But I entered those on the hidden panel, and then tried EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL on the fourth button, and NOTHING happened when I pressed the button that made the tray slide out. Is it refusing to let me get what I need to just because I haven't found the stupid clue to the fourth animal? Because if it is, that is really dumb.

Never mind, I'm giving up. This game is too frustrating and I'm supposed to be writing a paper anyway... ;)

So we're supposed to find a

yellow

ball somewhere?

On the blue wall...

I have found all the clues for the pictures. I changed the pictures orange cat, green flower, red bunny,blue butterfly, and I pressed the button. Shouldn't it do something?

Can anyone tell me where i can find

screwdriver

Where/what are the clues?

link_991

The cat is whatever the colour of the border is.

never mind, i just missed a view of the desk

Lylly:

What looks like a bunny is actually a bird. Stupid, isn't it?

where is the

box with holes in it?

Got it ! Thanks to Wir.

Thank Nod

i am lost.i have 3 white spheres,1 green,1 grey,red pencil,cane,screws,screwdriver,brown thing,empty glass,cat pic,bunny thing and the box code.wat am i missin nd wat do i have 2 do.

The flower was orange not red >_

This game is not color blind friendly. Although I'm not color blind but I found it hard to distinguish colors.

After finishing this game, I come to the conclusion that that I have NOT YET played an escape-the-room game where things actually made sense.

what do i do with the box with a hole in it? I try to put it over both the floor lights, but it wont go. :(

wow, that was cool. first room escape game i've ever played that i didn't need hints or a walkthrough for. most of them have me slamming my head against the wall in frustration, but this one was easy enough to get through without being so easy it wasn't satisfying.

i'm not able to find the butterfly, i have the box and have punched a hole in the top...there is already a larger hole in the bottom, i have no idea where to go from here....can someone please help me out i'm getting so frustrated

nevermind, i "worked out" the box thing after much clicking and i eventually managed to

poke a hole in the top of it as well as the bottom, using the cane thing, though it might have worked without i was trying everything at the time.

woody
Did you have a look at all three books on the desk? They have some hints in them.

Where do you find the second red ball?

Can anyone help me on the

marble puzzle with the = signs. I know it is something with addition, but how are you supposed to assign number values to each marble? Is it random, or am i missing a clue? I have all the colored marbles, I just need help in figuring out where to put them

please!! i've been playing this game for hours now and im starting to go quite insane.

the part I actually hated the most was

finding the "secret panel"

which to me was totally non-intuitive as I can't see anything on the blue wall. I ended up just blind clicking everywhere. The rest wasn't too bad.
And nod, in case you're still wondering

there is no yellow ball.

You just have to figure out the rest and the balls left is your answer

And after finishing the game, I had no clue what people were talking about when referring to the

bunny vs. duck? those animals did not appear in my game at all

Yay!! I beat it!!

I can't for the life of me find the box. Where haven't I looked?

UM. I seem to have cheated this game twice. I never found a blue for the fourth, blue symbol on the blue wall (I just guessed); and I never used the balance level. I just used that hint that slgalt had (not the picture). By the way, this game had really nice 3d graphics.

Thanks Nod

koalabrigade
You have to use what you find in the locked top drawer of the two-drawer thing.

Andrew

On the floor to the right of the couch.

where do I find the box with hole in it?

Sorry for the double post but I found the box

right hand side of the couch

I don't understand the numbers on the

plant pot. All I can understand is 3,6,and 5. There is another number, but I don't understand what it is. Also, where is the red ball?

I cannot seem to find the red balls... not even one of them! Please help someone.. my graphics are all pixel-ated or something from my accelerator...

Alright, first post here... I love these escape the room type games and I usually lurk around the comments, but I cannot for the life of me find the

hook for the hanging plant. I'm assuming that's what I need for the missing spheres? I'm missing two...

Aloloo
Its a

7

Sam and Aloloo
There is a red ball

in the hanging plant pot.

Can someone please explain the balance thing??? That and what do do with the muddy (frog?) are the only 2 things i havent figured out yet...

I just found out about 'escapers' by accident, but now I'm
hooked on 'em and I'm anxious to play more! How long have these games been around?

G.

Grynn - 'escape-the-room' games have been around for several years, and there are a lot of them published on the Web. However, not all of them are worth playing.

Be sure to check out this list of some of the best escape games available:

http://jayisgames.com/tag/escape

I am missing

1 green marble.

Can anyone tell me all the places to find them?

Here is what i used to solved the color combinations for the marbles:

I used the scale and messed around with various marbles and found the following. 2G = 3W
2G = 1B + 1R
1B = 2R + 1G
2W = 1G + 1R
3w = 1B + 1R
1B = 1G + 1W
2R = 1W
Then letting R have a value of 1, the values are:
R = 1
W = 2
G = 3
B = 5
O = 9

Next i found that with 1 marble being equal to 1 marble and a green marble, the only combination for that is 1B = 1W + 1G . Then just guessing for the otheres xD

I had trouble finding my last green marble also.

Look at the plant hanging from the ceiling for the first one, and then at the plant in the bathroom.

HELP! I can't get the marbles

into the box

How is it done? I tried all

the combinations for the pink character on the wall,

but none work. I guess I have to pass by this step to have access.

Spent 15 minutes till the very last step and... Why I just can't wet the paper in glass? Took me two hours to just randomly wet it with the tap. Nice game though.

finally got out after around 3 hours. thanks for all the hints and the walkthrus.

I cant put the marbles into the box. Is it the white box you punch the holes into?

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