Escape game (GameDesign)

this game is cool but im kind of stuck

Wow, quite a tricky game. Ive already hit a dead end. Found 2 keys, six balls, a paper, and two cards. Hope i wont have to go pixel hunting. >.<

"Kind of stuck" gives us no idea how to help, Chris. Just an FYI. ;)

Meepo - as I said, there is absolutely no pixel hunting in this game. You are missing a few items, though. ;)

ive got the same stuff but cant figure out what to do with the balls it seems that they could go into the picture over the futon but nothing happens when i put them in

have you tried

the second duck? try waiting a while

I'm really stuck!

I've got 7 balls, two cards (One Used), three keys (All used), and a diagram that I thought went to the thing above the couch, but nothing I do works!

I absolutely cannot figure out the computer puzzle. If anyone knows the solution, let me know, otherwise I'm going to have to quit the game.

Fun game! :)
Completed in 21 min.

walkthrough please

Mnem;

Have you first tried turning them all white? And, if so, then have you tried clicking the just spots on the piece of paper on the computer? Hope I help.

Have you tried...

Laying the cards atop one another?

I'm at the same place as Random, plus a couple possible clues:

Random - the cards can be used with each other, though I have no clue what to do with the result. (And the number clues I'm seeing in the clock and keys may just be my imagination.) Has anyone tried getting the computer to match the diagram? I've tried, but just can't find a sequence of moves that works.

Fun little game, I have the paper, 7 balls, 3 keys, and 2 cards.

note the pattern on the paper, then go to the computer. that's all i'll say.

ARGHH help, i hav 7 orange balls n iv put the 2 keycards

together to make the number 631, i hav 3 keys and the piece of paper!

HELP!:)

I'll help most of you....

Try the note on the computer...What do you get?Whatever it may be, try it on the..."Thing"above the couch.

Wow, I liked this one!

Full Walkthrough here:

1. 

   Click on left corner of mat, collect card.
2. 

   Click left to next screen. Click on Clock. Collect ball at ‘12' position on clock to collect it.
3. 

   Click on computer. Solve the puzzle by making all the spheres white. Collect keycard from reader.
4. 

   Click on bottom drawer. Collect ball. Click left to next screen.
5. 

   Look under Sideboard. Collect ball.
6. 

   Click on faces. Click on mouth of left-hand face to insert card. Collect key.
7. 

   Click on duck. Collect key from beak.
8. 

   Open right-hand cupboard door. Click on duck. WAIT. Collect key from beak.
9. 

   Open other cupboard doors. Collect balls from both middle cupboards. Click left to next screen.
10. 

    Look under sofa. Collect ball.
11. 

    Click top of hatstand. Click on back ball to collect it.
12. 

    Return to desk. Open top drawer. Collect paper.
13. 

    Click on computer. Click spaces on screen indicated by circles on the paper (it doesn't matter in which order you click them). When all relevant spaces have been clicked this should result in a pattern of 7 white spheres - 2 in the first column, 3 in the second column and 2 in the fourth column. Remember this pattern.
14. 

    Return to sofa. Use the 7 balls you have collected with the panel on the wall in the pattern memorised from the computer.
15. 

    Click on the bottom slot to use the second keycard and collect the key.
16. 

    Return to the first screen with the mat and the door. Click on the wall panel to open it.
17. 

    Click on keycards in inventory. Drag one keycard over the other until the are aligned to show a 3 – digit number.
18. 

    You really want me to tell you the number?

    

    Oh, OK, it's 631

    enter the number into the keypad. The door will have opened.
19. 

    But there's still no escape!
20. 

    Click on the keys in your inventory. Line them up together, the flat edges of the ‘F' shaped keys on the outside, and another 3-digit number will be revealed.
21. 

    You really want me to tell you this number too?

    

    Oh, OK, it's 235

    enter the number into the keypad. A second door will have opened and you're free.

The cards

I found to be a bit of a red herring because

that's not the number you're looking for.

should remind you of more than just the picture above the futon.

It's not directly instructions for the picture.

Found just a closet? There's more to the "dragging items" interface than just the cards

I might have missed something, but I think that's all. Everything else seemed fairly straightforward

WANT SOME HELP WITH THAT NOTE? I found this little bit with the note and comppy!! HAHAHA!!! I win.

Click the note on the computer left to right, up to down.

you have seven balls

There SHOULD be seven whit circles. Get it?

Yay meh!!I just wasted 4 minutes!

[Edit: More like 40. :p -Jay]

DONE!!! since i've nothing better to do, i'll post a walkthrough

To start, look underneath the doormat and find a card. You'll need this later

Turn right and collect 2 out of 7 wooden balls:one under the sofa and the other is the furthest of the balls on the coat rack

Turn right again and click on the monkey. Punch it and get the key

Use this key on the left drawer on this desk to get another wooden ball

Open the right drawer to find another monkey. Punch it, wait a few seconds, and grab the key that comes out

Use this key on the right side drawer to get another ball

look under this desk to get the last ball from this side

Turn right and click on the bottom drawer to get the 6th ball

solve the puzzle to get another card

the easiest way to do this is to click on one of the bottom pieces then click on the space that fits the same space as the first space you chose if you rotate it

click on the clock and on the ball where the 12 would be to get the final ball

Turn left and click on the faces. Click on the left mouth to insert one of the cards to get a key out of the right side

Go right and use the key on the locked drawer to get a paper

Remember the computer? Click on the circled spaces in the note to get the password for the safe

Go to the screen with the safe and insert the wooden balls in the pattern from the computer, then click on the bottom slot to scan the other card and get the last key

Use the key on the box by the door and open it.

The code is hidden in those cards you got. Click on the cards and drag one over the other to get the code. For those who want to find this code for themselves, don't click the next spoiler

631

Oh, no! It's a dead end! But wait! There's another code in the keys. Select the keys and move them around until you find a number. Again, don't open the next spoiler if you want to find the answer for yourself.

235

Congratulations!! You are out!

ARGH! Got the door open, but it doesn't end the game or anything, I can't seem to walk out.

Xadoc - thank you so much for the walkthrough! The only thing I got stuck on was the key 3-digit code, and the wood ball found on step five. Step five confused me a bit, but I got it. ^^ Thanks so much!

Awww....I'm gettin picked on :(

I shaved 2 minutes off meh time too :p

Well, Kenny, as with any of these games that measure the length of time you spend playing, the only time that has any significance at all is your first time through (without help or a walkthrough).

....

Let's just forget about meh first time through eh?

Even if if it was somethin like....I don't know, 30 minutes...

xD

hehehe, that's more like it. ;)

ONLY TOOK ME 10 MINUTES!!

for those of you stuck on the DUCKS:

for the duck inside the cabinet (right under the one on the top of the cabinet) click on the duck's head and wait on that same screen for about 15 seconds, then get the key from his mouth, just like the other one

Nice game with creative use of the items I haven't seen in a long while.

The game was not hard but not evident - i had to resort to the walkthru at one place - with the hint on the paper collected.

Good effort.

ok i've got most of the stuff...but i dont know how to use the keys...i know it sound dumb right?

Great game I really enjoyed it!

I like the hand pointer popping up when you are on to something, it gives you the fun of a search without the frustration of pixel hunting.

And I feel that I am being congratulated FOR wasting time, so my 55 minutes is a resounding victory! First! ~ uh ~ I mean ~ Slowest!

I have also learned a valuable lesson from reading tonight's comments:

One man's duck is another man's monkey!

i did it in 31 minutes yet another i did not need any help, i thought this one was really good, yeah baby

so i'm stuck at the part where

i'm supposed to enter the code from the paper. i can't find any way to get the right pattern

The thing with the keys was genius!

The thing with the punched cards was pretty good, too. ;)

Taro Ito rarely disappoints with the games he designs.

One tiny remark: it should somehow be pointed out right in the beginning that you won't be able to USE the collected itmes in the way you usually do in P-N-C games: that yopu click on them or drag them to the desired spot. That once you have an item, at the place where it should be used it will be used automatically. I spent most of my time trying to find where the key I got can be used - and, most of all, how it can be used. I tried to drag it, to click on it, everything. Little did i know that I shouldn't do anything, it's automatically used...

But that's really a minor point and the game is fun the way it is.

I wasted only 17 mins, all I needed help with was

The code with the keys, although I did suspect there was something fishy with them.

i cant solve the pattern from the note on the computer

pls help, i tried nearly everything but those kinds of puzzles make me crazy :)

Picture link and "Play Escape game" link aren't working for me. Dunno if anyone else is getting the same problem.

The "Escape game" link is fine though. Sooooo here goes.

Cheers for the tip about using objects bioLarzen. I wasted 12 mins, not bad eh?

There is NO way to make the

note "work" or "do" or "show" anything on the computer.

use the paper with the computer

The slip of paper should remind you of more than just the picture above the futon. It's not directly instructions for the picture. OR Click on computer. Enter code from paper using white spheres. This will create a pattern. Remember it. *****I have tried to make the white circle appear in the pattern on the god blessed piece of paper and it can not be done. *** CODE?? what code? If you look at the paper there are 16 squares. 2, 5, 7, 11, 16 from left to right have a white circle. But if that is the CODE --- where do you put it??? There is NO keyboard. I have "placed" the paper over the screen of the computer and clicked on the white circles but that does nothing. It says I can move the paper around what ever good that does.

makes it even worse. I don't need to feel this stupid and frustrated on a nice Sunday morning.

I give up.

Marian -

Yes I was running screaming for the walkthrough when I needed to solve the computer / paper puzzle, that is the leap of logic jay spoke of in the intro and I too fell in to the chasm like Evil Knevil when trying to make that leap!

Also the use of the items being different than most games threw me a bit, had to consult a hint on that too. Don't give up! If you've spent a half hour you still have 25 minutes to go to beat my 55 minutes record!
;-p

Marian,

Hope this will help (if you haven't totally given up already), to be honest I couldn't figure this out, and was stuck forevers.

The dots on the sheet of paper correspond to the computer, you don't have to recreate this pattern on the computer, just click the same dots that are circled on the sheet (in any order) Once you have clicked those dots you should see a pattern of 7 white dots. This is the pattern you have to recreate on the wall puzzle with the orange dots.

Marian -

I had to hit the spots in order left to right bottom to top

Now the real puzzle... Duck or Monkey?!?!

Great little game. I have been off the whole point and click so this was a nice warm up. Just needed the walk through to confirm my thoughts.

I came back because...

I just couldn't let it go...I had to figure it out.

Thank you for the kind and helpful hints. :)

I didn't realize how close to the finish I was. It told me that I wasted 10 minutes. But that isn't really correct. Because I accidentally closed the game window 3 times. So it probably adds up to about 6 hours.

I love this place!

Wow, Marian, I'm sorry you found the walkthrough so unhelpful on that point.

I was just stoked to have finished the game and wanted to type up a walkthrough before anyone else beat me to it (and Eric was only 34 minutes behind me).

it is difficult to write concise instructions that everyone reads and understands in the same way. I guess that's why people get frustrated with instruction manuals - they make sense to the people writing them...

anyway, I can't edit the walkthrough, but maybe Jay can?

I'd be happy for point 13 to be replaced by:

Click on computer. Click spaces on screen indicated by circles on the paper (it doesn't matter in which order you click them). When all relevant spaces have been clicked this should result in a pattern of 7 white spheres - 2 in the first column, 3 in the second column and 2 in the fourth column. Remember this pattern.

Hope that's clearer?

[Edit: done. -Jay]

I tried it how much time it takes to complete the game with all the knowledge there is to have - right now my record is 2 minutes - but that could be better i gues if i had an actual strategy on the white dot puzzle :)

I guess something should be done with the walkthrus. I mean, some of us - including, sadly, me - seem to make it a matter of pride to be the first ones to send in a walkthru. And that usually means hurry. And a walkthru written in a hurry is seldom the best one... My two walkthrus had mistakes, not few... And one word is enough. Writing left instead of right, green instead of blue, etc...

I don't know what could possibly be done about that (besides us not rushing with the walkthrus...), just thought I'd bring up the point.

The right drawr won't open for me D:

yay, me!

all the way through, no walkthough, no hints!

The stoopid spell has been broken (at least for this game!)

i like how they make you think outside the box on what to do with the items.....they could have thought up a better name though ^^

bioLarzen, here's the simplest way to beat the white dot puzzle:

You just have to click on four circles:
☻ ☺ ☻ ☻
☻ ☻ ☻ ☺
☺ ☻ ☻ ☻
☻ ☻ ☺ ☻
Easy as pie!

[Edit: fixed. -Jay]

And... that didn't end up looking like it did in the preview. Here's an explanation:

If you number the circles 1-16 (1 2 3 4 in the top row, etc), then you just need to click circles 2, 8, 9, and 15.

Neddo... your comment looks great on the help squad but not to good here... i dont get it... peace

wow... that was fast
Jay is Awesome!!!

Now this is the kind of game I like - one with no pixel hunting at all. Of course, I have quite enjoyed the other games but I would frequently have to look up where to find an object (Daymare Town comes to mind). But this one is just clever puzzles. Eeeexcellent.

Time wasted: 11 minutes.

Thx, Neddo.

OK, now it's official: it's possible (with Neddo's help) to beat the game in 1 minute :) More exactly 57 seconds :))

OK, I know it's a stupid idea to make a rush of this game, just wantes to know if it's possible :)

To xadoc

Your walk through was fine and it made sense when I came back.

It was my brain not wrapping around the computer game. I am ashamed to admit that I actually played it correctly once but didn't realize that I had 7 little balls left. I was trying to make the white balls on the computer look like the white ball pattern on the paper and that didn't work. And so the frustration mounted and I clothed myself in sack cloth and cursed logic. :)

So don't stop writing walk throughs because of a logic retard like me.

Even though the game said I wasted 14 minutes, I couldn't help but feel bad. Definitely, if the tab key had been disabled, then it would've been at least a half-hour more. I hope he doesn't forget the "tabbers" like me who usually try using the tab key when they're stuck.

Still a good game though.

I ended up slamming my head against the paper in the wrong place; then I got the last wooden ball. After that, I expected something to happen with the computer for a while.

Eleven minutes and one hint are usually better than my first attempt at such games, but then again, this one's kinda short. I'm glad I could figure the way out of that office.

wow, this was definitely one of the very best room escapes i've done, and i've done a LOT!! the puzzles were very creative, but definitely not beyond the scope of common logic.

Hee hee - I like the picture he used for this game in the best-of competition. Go look at it if you've beaten it, but if you haven't you will probably just be upset.

tip number 13 IS NOT RIGHT I REPEAT NOT RIGHT DO AS THE PAPER FOLLOWS IN THE CIRCLES IT'S NAT 2 INTHE FIRST COLUM AND 2 IN THE THIRD COLLUM DO IT THE WAY THE PAPER IS TOLD

Cool, I wasted 17 minutes! Escape-the-room games FTL

So this might sound stupid, but I can't use the key... It says I can drag it around which is fine and all, but only within that box. It won't open anything! I've tried following the walkthroughs, but it still won't work. Help!

i can't open the right middle drawer...

Ok, i need help on the 14th step on the walkthrough. I've tried everything and whenever i put those little balls in the wall above the sofa, nothing happens. Can someone please help me?

in order to open the right middle door, you need to go in the far right cabinet door click on the monkey thing and wait for like 10 seconds and a key will come out and after you get that key, try to open it.

My gosh!

ITS BRILLIANT!

yay! I'm not stupid!

13 minits is a good time, isn't it?

Dang, the whole "revisiting puzzles" gimmick is a unique concept, and I kind of like it. This is definitely one of the better escape games. Usually, in room escape games, you finish one puzzle and you're done with that area of the room, whereas with this one, there's actually a reward to go back to one puzzle again,

in this case, the circles on the computer, and the keypad by the door,

I really love this site. Thanks Jay.
Can somebody please explain the last puzzle?
I just don't see how can you get the last set of code by aligning the keys...

about the final step:

you align the keys in a row so that they are just touching with the flat bits of the F shaped keys on the outside and the other keys in the opposite order to the starting position and the spaces bitween the keys show you the number combination!

A clear way of solving computer puzzle number one:

Click the X's and not the O's:
O X O O
O O O X
X O O O
O O X O
or
O O X O
X O O O
O O O X
O X O O
(I used the second)

This was the awesomeist game ever!!!! WHOOT!!! (which is , in fact, a word.) I got half way though it and got a little stuck, so I snook a peak at the walk though, but then I got the rest of it "almost" all by my self!!!!!!!

did it in...

16 mins =P

I did it all, got the door open, but now i cant get out of the door hahaha

I need help with finding the second duck and with step number 8.

ha it only took me 2 minutes
i did it once with the walkthrough (major thanks)
then i went back later and did it again 2 minutes whooo

i did it in two mins, go me!

I need HELP!!!??? I did the computer Puzzle with 2 in the first row 3 in the second and 2 in the fourth and typed it in to the puzzle on the wall above the couch and I can not find the place to put the second key card???? PLEASE HELP????!!!!!
Tanks So Much
Marissa