Brown Dyed Hotel

June 30, 2008

Platform: Flash

Tags: discovery, flash, free, game, kidsafe, macwinlinux, puzzle, riddle, simpleidea

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Jay Brown Dyed Hotel is by a group of talented Swedish students from Campus Karlshamn of Blekinge Institute of Technology who have been busy building a few games lately. The first one that caught my eye is a collection of puzzles that is one part discovery, similar to no circles, and one part riddle game, as with not pron, and it will surely give your gray matter a workout.

Work your way through each level discovering the secrets that allow you to complete each task. If you get stuck, don't be afraid to reload the browser page to reset the current puzzle, if necessary. Since each puzzle is slightly different than the one before it, the experience feels fresh and unique, if a bit short. There are only about 12 levels from what I could see. Some notes on the site hint at more, though.

The entire site is full of mystery and secrets, so when you're done with the puzzle make sure you check out the other goings on at Brown Dyed Hotel. And for the more adventurous, look for their beautiful 3D physics game, Ether, which is actually a Half-Life 2 mod with a gorgeous stylized environment. Play Brown Dyed Hotel.

Cheers to Aini for the link! =)

Brown Dyed Hotel walkthrough now available!

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Walkthrough Guide

Brown Dyed Hotel Hint Through
[walkthrough to follow]
This is my first time doing a hint-through, so if it's too obvious/not obvious enough, let me know.
(notice: the levels count down, hence the first page is level 11)

Prelude:

Just click! Sorry, no way to hint this one!

11.

Hm, the url is sol.html... and those rotating circles are familiar... which one are we on..?

10.

The url says cirkles, but there's a gap. Gaps let things through.

Bigger is heavier, and can push things down farther, but too heavy may push things down too far.

A zero is kinda like an absence.

If you strain to see what's in front of you, you might miss what's on the edges, because of the...

Sometimes you just have to stab in the dark, if your weapon is something that works.

Look at the walls, follow instructions, combine, reverse, follow instructions again.

If something doesn't sound right, pull it out.

Touch what changes.

An equation where the answer's not in Flash.

Url change.

Drag and see what moves and what's revealed.

Url change.

Two numbers on the wall, but there's no 26th hour.

Maybe if they're both minutes...

Feedback appreciated. :3

Posted by: joye | June 30, 2008 7:46 AM

Walkthrough:

What to do and why! (This being a mystical mystery, I may have a wrong explanation, but this is what makes sense to me.) Prelude:

beforethebeginning.html Just click any part of the white thing.

11.

sol.html It's a solar system from a strange angle. The outline planet is earth. Click!

10.

cirkles.html You want the circle in the middle to fill up from the four directions. Moving the cursor causes the outer rings to spin, and clicking the circle causes a black dot to come from first north, then east, south, west. Figure out where to place the cursor to have both rings lined up with their gap facing the direction the next dot will come from. Click on the inner circle and quickly move the cursor back to where you just had it and hold it there. The black dot will come in and enter the circle. Repeat until all four are inside.

thefix.html Your goal is to "fix" the dots and squares so that everything is between the lines. Do this by hovering the cursor over a circle and then clicking on it when it gets big enough to weigh down the square. A higher square needs a bigger circle. If you mess up just refresh.

5dots.html You can see "10110" in the top left corner. The black circles are the 1s. So run your mouse over the black circles so that there's circle, gap, circle, circle, gap. /vision will appear below: click on it. (If you attempt vision.html, btw, you will get the easter egg "don't try to outdo yourself.) ^_^

unvision.html What's all that blurry stuff? A distraction, that's what. The lower right corner has four dots. Click on them until they spell BLUR. You get /machine. NOW you want to change the url to browndyedhotel.com/machine

machine If you click on "work" you get the message "ether might actually work". Click wildly in the black space to the right of the video until you find a text box (it's towards the top left). Quickly type ether and hit enter! May take a few tries because it resets whenever the video resets.

corridor.html Click on the left wall. Scroll left until you see "press b". Press the b key. All the words will disappear except "HEBROOD." Click. Go to the right wal. Scroll right until you see "push here", click on it. All words disappear except "ONAIPDNI". "ONAIPDNIHEBROOD" is "DOOR BEHIND PIANO" backwards. Click on the door at the end of the hall. Click on the door above the piano (not the ladder, but to the left of that).

piano.html If you click on the keys, the third from the left sounds broken. Pull on it. Four other keys will turn gray (three whites and a black). Click on the four gray keys.

bigblacklake.html Black equals white and a small circle equals a large circle. Change the url to smallwhitelake.html (Clicking and holding shows us a big black lake, but it's not necessary to the puzzle).

smallwhitelake.html The zooming triangle is a distraction. The lower-right triangular wedge can be dragged to the upper left to reveal the words clock.html

clock.html First, run your cursor repeatedly on and off the upper black strip until it disappears, revealing a clock. Now if you peer closely at the wall, you will see the numbers 8 and 26. (The 8 is in the upper left corner, the 26 is to the upper left of the upper left corner of the couch.) But 8:26 won't work. You have to pretend like both hands are minute hands and set them to 8 and 26. Then click on the doors that open.

thebeginning.html Done! Three strange videos. You can click on "the Hotel" to go back to the main page, or click on the 0 to go to...

12.

totheend.html Another mystery..?

Posted by: joye | June 30, 2008 8:16 AM

77 Comments [leave a comment]

Guess what... I'm stuck!

help on "unvision" anyone?

Posted by: Edd

| June 30, 2008 4:39 AM

Never mind...

Posted by: Edd

| June 30, 2008 4:44 AM

Wait. I'm stuck on the same level... What's the hint?

Posted by: caitlin

| June 30, 2008 4:46 AM

...nevermind.

Posted by: caitlin

| June 30, 2008 4:48 AM

Any clues on the next? I'm stuck again!

I feel there my be a trend in this comment box...

Posted by: Edd

| June 30, 2008 4:55 AM

Is there a hint for the unvision-level?

please?

Posted by: kitay | June 30, 2008 5:14 AM

Unvision

try the four dots on the lower right corner of the flash to create a word that makes sense for this image.

Posted by: Machineslave | June 30, 2008 5:19 AM

This one I had trouble with.

Try clicking around the right area of the video.

Posted by: caitlin

| June 30, 2008 5:28 AM

Err. Is it possible to delete or edit comments? Meant to put that under spoiler tags...

Posted by: caitlin

| June 30, 2008 5:29 AM

Darn, I got all the way to #1

clocks

before I couldn't progress any further. I'll try again later, but if anyone has any nudges for that one, I'd be much appreciative :-)

Posted by: Arcan

| June 30, 2008 6:19 AM

stuck on 3

Posted by: Joe | June 30, 2008 6:31 AM

The puzzle on large black lake and the clock puzzle were annoyingly tough.

Even after solving it, I'm not sure I got all of everything...

Posted by: Mad Lad | June 30, 2008 6:37 AM

I find four point in the botton left.and you can make it show"blur".then one sentence will become clear "/machine".that's all i know.

Posted by: shawn

| June 30, 2008 6:51 AM

im stuck on

/machine

Posted by: kitt | June 30, 2008 7:08 AM

I'm stuck exactly where shawn is. I tried changing the URL to ".../machine.html", and the site complained that "it doesn't say that". I think I need a clue...

Posted by: SonicLover

| June 30, 2008 7:26 AM

...Ah! I think this is what they mean by "power of posting".

When I omitted the ".html", it worked.

But now I'm stuck on the one right after it.

I think the keyword is "ether". When I tried ".../ether/" I was told ".html". When I tried ".../ether.html" I was told "You're ahead of your time" and nothing else. What am I supposed to be doing?

Posted by: SonicLover

| June 30, 2008 7:34 AM

for the blurred level

try to enter \machine without the .html

im stuck on 2

Posted by: Joe | June 30, 2008 7:36 AM

question

machine
Where is the text box?

levels - 1-6 hints and walkthoughs

1 - beforethebeginning
What can you do?

click the circle in middle

2 - sol
look for something

find the circle and click it

3 - cirkles
move your mouse around, what happens?

try clicking the center

you need to move it around to get the circles in the center

left to right is the outer circle
up and down is the inner circle

top dot - above the circles, slightly to the right
right dot - to the right of the circles, slightly above center
left dot - in the center of the bottom of the outside circle
bottom dot - on the left, between the two circles, slightly down

4 - thefix
play with the dots

what do the dots do? try variations

What is the purpose of the lines?

get the dot to move the squares enough so that even with the size of the circle it is still between the lines.

5 - 5dots
What do the dots represent?

look for numbers on the page

Put the two ideas together

10110 the dots are ones. translate the numbers and wait. Click instead of entering the new location, though you can try it and see where it takes you.

6 - unvision
What is going on on this page?

see something that doesn't belong?

If you make it large enough one area of words still cannot be seen, why?

There are 4 dots at the bottom right of the words.

What can you do with these dots?

Change the dots to BLUR and enter the new code

One click to view each level

1 - beforethebeginning
What can you do?
click the circle in middle

2 - sol
look for something
find the circle and click it

3 - cirkles
move your mouse around, what happens?
try clicking the center
you need to move it around to get the circles in the center
left to right is the outer circle
up and down is the inner circle
top dot - above the circles, slightly to the right
right dot - to the right of the circles, slightly above center
left dot - in the center of the bottom of the outside circle
bottom dot - on the left, between the two circles, slightly down

4 - thefix
play with the dots
what do the dots do? try variations
What is the purpose of the lines?
get the dot to move the squares enough so that even with the size of the circle it is still between the lines.

5 - 5dots
What do the dots represent?
look for numbers on the page
Put the two ideas together
10110 the dots are ones. translate the numbers and wait. Click instead of entering the new location, though you can try it and see where it takes you.

6 - unvision
What is going on on this page?
see something that doesn't belong?
If you make it large enough one area of words still cannot be seen, why?
There are 4 dots at the bottom right of the words.
What can you do with these dots?
Change the dots to BLUR and enter the new code

Posted by: SHA

| June 30, 2008 7:38 AM

Prelude:

Just click! Sorry, no way to hint this one!

11.

Hm, the url is sol.html... and those rotating circles are familiar... which one are we on..?

10.

The url says cirkles, but there's a gap. Gaps let things through.

Bigger is heavier, and can push things down farther, but too heavy may push things down too far.

A zero is kinda like an absence.

If you strain to see what's in front of you, you might miss what's on the edges, because of the...

Sometimes you just have to stab in the dark, if your weapon is something that works.

Look at the walls, follow instructions, combine, reverse, follow instructions again.

If something doesn't sound right, pull it out.

Touch what changes.

An equation where the answer's not in Flash.

Url change.

Drag and see what moves and what's revealed.

Url change.

Two numbers on the wall, but there's no 26th hour.

Maybe if they're both minutes...

Feedback appreciated. :3

Posted by: joye

| June 30, 2008 7:46 AM

level 6

if you click near the moving part
top right side of the moving bit
there will be a text area
type ether in there

Posted by: Srah | June 30, 2008 7:50 AM

still cant figure out number 1

Posted by: Joe

| June 30, 2008 7:58 AM

I'm having problems with level 7

When I enter ether in the URL, the screen says ".html". when i add .html it says that i'm ahead of my time. Is that like a riddle or something? Please help me out.

Posted by: Banana

| June 30, 2008 8:08 AM

done.. =]

Posted by: Joe

| June 30, 2008 8:11 AM

Walkthrough:

What to do and why! (This being a mystical mystery, I may have a wrong explanation, but this is what makes sense to me.) Prelude:

beforethebeginning.html Just click any part of the white thing.

11.

sol.html It's a solar system from a strange angle. The outline planet is earth. Click!

10.

piano.html If you click on the keys, the third from the left sounds broken. Pull on it. Four other keys will turn gray (three whites and a black). Click on the four gray keys.

smallwhitelake.html The zooming triangle is a distraction. The lower-right triangular wedge can be dragged to the upper left to reveal the words clock.html

thebeginning.html Done! Three strange videos. You can click on "the Hotel" to go back to the main page, or click on the 0 to go to...

12.

totheend.html Another mystery..?

Posted by: joye

| June 30, 2008 8:16 AM

I've gone on past the 'last level'

I watch the 3 videos at the hotel...then clicked the 0

The first and last white dot seem to take you to a dead end. Click the middle dot

That looks familar. It was the title of puzzle 7 when you tried to type ether into the address bar. Anyway, type ^o^ in the bar

Stuck here...

Posted by: KingofTown | June 30, 2008 11:56 AM

I'm not sure but...

I think there might be a puzzle at level 0 as well... Before the image of each video loads you see a string of numbers behind each screen. These are (from right to left) 12-23-43-03, 12-23-23-03, 12-23-23-03. Since the page is called 'timer' and the videos are all shot at the same location (from different angles) roughly the same time, we can perhaps assume that these are timecodes, and that the middle and right video are in sync while the left one is ahead/behind? From the code one would assume ahead, but given that in the middle video the barrel goes from standing to fallen over, it is more likely to be behind... Maybe we're supposed to try to get them to stop at the same instant?
Or maybe I'm reading too much into this!

KingofTown:
After admiring the Ikea lamp, I typed what you said and...

am also stuck. The only thing I've figured out is that by holding down the mouse button and 'scratching' it across various parts of the wood background, I make stripes of wood flash quickly across the screen.
Also am not sure first and last dots are dead ends. The first (when assembled) is a drawing that you can find in the bar part of the hotel.

Posted by: Kassandra

| June 30, 2008 12:38 PM

On the machine level there is a text box but I can't type in it. Also there isn't a video, just some splotches of color. Any suggestions?

Posted by: TheCapn'

| June 30, 2008 12:45 PM

More on 0:

Further investigation has revealed that video 3 (far right) is longer than both videos 1 and two. Video 2 and 3, based on the sound of the helicopter, do sync up from the beginning. Then there is a gap while only video 3 plays, then video one syncs up with video 3 towards the end - unless my ears are fooling me. So we're likely seeing a different barrel in 1 and 2.

I really hope someone brighter than I figures this out, or I'll be scratching my head over it all night!

Posted by: Kassandra

| June 30, 2008 12:49 PM

King of Town:

if you look on the black board near the top there will be a new URL. Type it in, ILOVELAMP.html

All caps makes a difference.

Then theres another page.

If you watch carfully at the scribble page it says:

"We are working on something bigger"

Posted by: CyKO | June 30, 2008 1:11 PM

Found something:

On totheend.html, there's some text on the third white circle. By right clicking and going to Zoom In a couple of times, you can read this:
"..as it moves through the sky it
consumes plants that pass. They
also descend to the highest of
tree tops and groom them by
eating off their branches. There
has been incidents of creatures
going below the actual tree
crowns for short moments of
time. This behavior is in no
way necessary for the feeding
process as the higher leaves
contain just as..."
Anyone who can make sense of this?

Posted by: Kyle | June 30, 2008 1:36 PM

On the lamp page:

Look at the black board in the background near the top center of the screen.

There's an address: ILOVELAMP.html
It's hard to see and must be in all caps to work.

Then on the next page:

Look at the squiggly line page closely:
We're working on something bigger.

BUT wait, I've found an even harder puzzle.

If you look at the doodle page these are wingdings fonts. I've tried looking at the unicode values and the character codes in word. Maybe someone can figure it out from there.

If you look there's a page that has W_ or W- hard to tell which. But that may be the key to unlocking the Wingdings puzzle.

Posted by: CyKO

| June 30, 2008 1:42 PM

CyKO:

Ok, I translated the wingdings as best I could and got this:
6 SiO2 + 6 H2O + gravity pnw -> 6 SiO + 12H + 6 O2
All the 2's are subscript, and the y was missing in gravity. Following that arrow on the paper was "pnw", and I got no clue what that means.
So we got a chemical equation on our hands. Now what?

Posted by: Kyle | June 30, 2008 2:11 PM

+There are some very creative puzzles.

-A few puzzles were just annoying. Especially the clock level, I cnanot see the numbers anywhere.

-URL puzzle results, this is already so old and so unimaginative, please spare me of it. Make a text box and let me enter the result there, don't pester me with URLs, that stopped being creative after the 100oo.. clone of not pr0n.

Posted by: fuzzyface

| June 30, 2008 2:35 PM

Kyle:

pnw is mud upside down

Posted by: Darren

| June 30, 2008 2:42 PM

Kyle -

I wonder if they didnt think it through quite right?

Could it be Gravity Pwn? as in I pwned gravity by being lighter than air?

Any chem majors wanna jump in and let us know what gas this equasion makes?

Posted by: CyKO

| June 30, 2008 2:54 PM

CyKO:

The result I came up with (I need to check it again too) is "6 SiO + 6 HO + gravitons -> 6 SiO + 12 H + 6 O". Now, I fail to see what gravitons would have to do with anything or where the other six hydrogens are, but...

Posted by: Scarrow | June 30, 2008 3:50 PM

@CyKO;

It creates Silicon Monoxide, the reactants are Silica (commonly known as glass or sand) and water

Oddly enough, I can't find any information on this exact reaction

Also, they left the Hydrogen unbound. In order for the equation to be in standard form, the hydrogen should be bound to itself making it 6H(2) not 12H

Posted by: mkelican

| June 30, 2008 4:11 PM

CyKO:

Whoops, skipped the subscripted 2's on my end.

Posted by: JIGuest | June 30, 2008 4:17 PM

Gravitons?

Looking at the formula that you guys have so elegantly figured out we get:

6 SiO2 + 6 H2O = 6 SiO + 12H + 6 O2

FYI, I know http://www.gregthatcher.com/Chemistry/BalanceChemicalEquations.aspx?StartsWith=Z

This equasion is not balanced. So + Gravitons needs to balance the equasion.

If you put in the equasion:
6 SiO2 + 6 H2O - O = 6 SiO + 12H + 6 O2

The equasion becomes balanced. How would you add gravitons and still have the equivelent of removing 1 oxygen?

Either way this is by far the hardest leg of the puzzle... so far???

Also we still need to figure out what W_ stands for and how it fits into the puzzle, if it does.

Also gravitons are theoretical... how do you add something that isn't physically confirmed?

AND THEN WE STILL NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE HTML!!!!

Posted by: CyKO

| June 30, 2008 4:44 PM

I have a love-hate relationship with these kind of puzzles. On one hand, I love thinking outside the box and totally esoteric ways of solving puzzles. On the other I absolutely hate obscure and frustrating puzzles which you cannot solve even when looking at painfully direct hints.

The clock level is a perfect example of such a self-indulgent, illogical and frustrating puzzle. I simply cannot fathom how I could have found the solution by myself, and what's ridicilous I cannot solve it WITH THE EXACT SOLUTION I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME. Something's horribly wrong in this picture.

Posted by: baba44713

| June 30, 2008 5:40 PM

@CyKo

actually that equation is balanced as it is:
you have 6Si 18O2 and 12H on both sides of the equation, you don't need to subtract an oxygen

Posted by: NG | June 30, 2008 5:46 PM

Does anyone have any idea why the video on my "machine" level isn't working, or how to fix it? Maybe it's because I'm using Mozilla Firefox.

Posted by: TheCapn'

| June 30, 2008 5:47 PM

_ (underscore) = wingding sign for Taurus

Chemically, Carnelian is composed of Silicon Dioxide, SiO2
Carnelian is associated with the Zodiac sign of Virgo, but has also been associated with Taurus

lower case w = wingding diamond
upper case W = wingding celtic cross

just messing around so this probably means nothing.

Posted by: BenB | June 30, 2008 8:56 PM

Just wanted to let anyone who is playing with 'I Love Lamp' and going google-eyed from the flick-book effect...

It's not really a spoiler, but tagging all the same - didn't know my browser (Firefox) did this, found it by luck and thought it would be helpful for others:

Right-click, turn off 'play' and 'loop'. You can then go 'backwards' and 'forwards' through the slides to look at them one by one.

Posted by: xadoc

| June 30, 2008 9:21 PM

well I can't seem to find it so I will just have to go to the next one. Thanks Srah for trying and Joye for the url

Posted by: SHA

| June 30, 2008 11:04 PM

my thoughts on level 0

The films and text HOTEL are a hint perhaps to the 3 clues ahead, other than that Ive no idea about them, I cant hear any sound either, anyway then click the O and we find next screen called 'segment'(is this a clue you need all 3 parts to solve the puzzle) with the text "number12?". Anyway 3 circles 1. clicking leads to room'gosfish' jigsaw of sorts 2. clicking leads to room 'blackprint'- has ILOVELAMP.html clue plus bright symbol ^o^ 3. if we zoom in on this circle we get text describing some type of bird I think and when clicked on leads to 'lens' room, which has many squares lined up in ascending size.
From these 3 clues Ive followed on to 2 more rooms. 1. ILOVELAMP.html page (rightclick and ending loop forward/rewind works on IE also) with the wingdings formula stuff as described above and also a message saying "we are working on something bigger".
2.A page found by just adding ^o^ to end of web address, no html text and small o not 0- leads to a room called lobby with a black square that goes blue every so often.

Anyway just what Ive observed I've really no clue what the game makers want us to do, wether or not these rooms are all interconnected or whats going on really, I await one of the brainy folk here to work it all out for us :P .

Posted by: Bramble

| July 1, 2008 12:48 AM

thebeginning.html

videos are in order. first, last, second.
first from a side view, last from the barrels view, and second from a front view.

click The Hotel and then click on the Hotel and it will bring you to the makers website with links to a Half Life 2 mod called Ether at Moddb.com as well as discussion boards and other conceptual art and blog and stuffs.

Posted by: M.CON | July 1, 2008 1:10 AM

@ baba:

I think the clock level was designed to have the small hand point at the 8 and the long hand point at the 26. If you do it the other way around, it seems more like 7, not 8. Both work. *shrugs*

Posted by: joye

| July 1, 2008 9:09 AM

It was enjoyable, but my one irritation with certain riddle games is a lack of a definitive ending. To me, the cryptic ending(s) feel like a big red herring. Did I finish? Did I not? I don't know if I'm willing to put in the time to find out. Thus, a good puzzling experience led up to an unsatisfying one.

Posted by: Mallomar | July 1, 2008 10:33 AM

I was having a good time solving puzzles until

I stumbled down a blind alley that I thought might still be the main run after ether. Then I went and read the spoiler, said "Of course I wasn't going to get the BLACK text box against the BLACK background with nothing else to suggest it was there except the text icon in the mouse if I accidentally hovered over the right hotspot. The neat thing about real html puzzles is that you can read the source code, or select all, or something, and that will show you where to look for the invisible thingie. Not so with flash. Oh and the trick where you have to move fast because the flash movie resets just seems tacky to me. And then I was at the next level, where I had no hope without the walk-through because there don't seem to be different hot-spots, and I just gave up. It's all gibberish, I could read the walk-through if I wanted, but a cute little puzzle game loses its charm when you have to do it by the manual. Sorry, </rant>

Posted by: OrigamiMarie

| July 1, 2008 12:01 PM

Not entirely sure but...

On ILOVELAMP.html, I get 6 SiO2 + 6 H2O + gravity pnw -> 6 SiO + 12H + 6 O2 as well. Sand + Water = Mud and, as Darren pointed out, pnw is mud upside down. Any link there?

And...

In the lobby, the blue box which we can highlight appears to be a Windows Media Player film which should open, but a right click and "Error Details" says that it either timed out or has an incorrect filename. I guess it was supposed to be a film of the lobby...

Posted by: Sruixan

| July 1, 2008 12:12 PM

@Sruixan;

What it could be is an attempt at inserting the tech demo video that you can see at the elevator into the puzzle. An attempt that apparently fell through.

You could try sending an e-mail to the tech support telling them about it by clicking here.

Posted by: mkelican

| July 1, 2008 4:41 PM

@mkelican

It's working a bit better now - I can actually see the Windows Media Player window crop up. I'm going to have to send that email in a minute... Thanks for the link!

Posted by: Sruixan

| July 1, 2008 4:58 PM

I managed to find what could be a clue in the level "blackprint"

I copied the image to a image editing program and apart from ILOVELAMP it also says in larger, but harder to see letters; ether. i tried typing it in and just like in the other level it said I was "ahead of you time". Ideas anyone?

Posted by: oinquarki | July 1, 2008 6:18 PM

oinquarki

the guys that made this game also did a Half Life 2 mod called ether.

Posted by: CyKO

| July 1, 2008 6:55 PM

@oniquarki;

I just had an epiphany

It could be that each page that has "Ahead of your time" is a page that is under construction. If we wait a few weeks, maybe there'll be something different in this location

Posted by: mkelican

| July 1, 2008 7:04 PM

Do I need Half-Life to play the mod?

Posted by: Strangelander

| July 2, 2008 12:17 AM

the html for level 3 is really

smallwhitelake.hmtl just fyi

Posted by: lovinlif | July 2, 2008 2:53 AM

Probably just a red herring but...

On ILOVELAMP, in one of the frames there is a smudge in the bottom right of the picture. Looks like someone accidentally put their finger over the lens.

Think it might be of any relevance?

Posted by: Ryan McCue | July 2, 2008 8:13 AM

Perhaps, the flipbook with "We´re working on something bigger" just means: "Game is over, expect some longer game in the future" ???

Posted by: Oliver | July 2, 2008 1:39 PM

@Oliver

I would be soo disappointed with the developer if they went through the trouble of translating some chemistry equasion into wingdings and then hand drawing it onto a notebook, not to mention the W_

They do all that and have nothing after that to find. You can tell the developers are smart, very smart, but to make that teaser page the end... I have trouble believing that.

Posted by: CyKO

| July 2, 2008 5:07 PM

I'm rather annoyed right now.

I'm on the chemistry equation, and dead stuck.

Is that square dark bordered (P) or light bordered (O)?
Is that small diamond thin(S) or thick(W)?

Because I really don't know if it's

MUD upside down, or GRAVITONS. Gravitons simply doesn't make sense, while MUD leaves the "Gravit..." without a Y (or other ending)

Posted by: Ainegue

| July 2, 2008 5:28 PM

Love this site! Visit it daily. Jay, ever since you updated your site I have links to jayisgames archives, new games, complete list of games hovering over both the text descriptions of the daily featured games, and user comments. I cannot find any way to close these, and when I click on where I think there may be an X to close, it opens up the link. Any suggestion on how to move these to the left side of the page where they should be? Right now, "The Nighshift Code" and "New Game Downloads from Big Fish" cover spoilers for "cirkles 3".

[Edit: I believe you need to do a hard reload of the site. If using IE, press [ctrl][F5] while on a JIG page. If using a different browser, clear your browser cache and reload. The problem is most likely due to your browser still using files from before the site update. -Jay]

Posted by: jcfclark | July 2, 2008 10:09 PM

Ainegue:

It must be gravitons, not that it makes any real sense.

Posted by: Cale Gibbard

| July 3, 2008 6:05 PM

To all you people that understand this out there, what do you make of this? I found it when I was googling:

6H2O + 6SiO2 = Si6H12O6 + 6O2

is practicably the SAME (besides being written slightly different and not having the word GRAVITONS in it) as what was written in WingDing:

6 SiO2 + 6H2O + gravitons -> 6 SiO + 12H + 6 O2

Found the first thing at: http://www.extrasolar.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1335

They're saying something about silicon based lifeforms and whatnot.

Might be totally irreverent, but it's too similar to just be a coincidence... it must be a clue...?

Posted by: Ainegue

| July 3, 2008 8:33 PM

Hey Jay, I was just wondering why my walkthrough/hintthrough isn't linked at the top. Did I make a mistake or is there anything I need to fix?

Posted by: joye

| July 5, 2008 10:59 AM

Hi Joye! I must have missed it. I'll set it up right now. Thanks for posting it! ^_^

(If I ever overlook one, just send a copy of it to the address 'walkthroughs' at this domain, jayisgames)

Cheers!

Posted by: Jay

| July 5, 2008 11:35 AM

@Joye & Jay - There is an error in the walkthrough for 3

It should read: Change bigblacklake.html to smallwhitelake.html not smallblacklake.

Joye's logic is correct, so I'm guessing it was just a typo :-)

Thanks for the walkthrough Joye! Couldn't have done it without it.

[Edit: Thanks, Zeke. Fixed. :) -Jay]

Posted by: Zeke

| July 5, 2008 9:22 PM

Oops! You're right Zeke, it was a typo. Thanks for catching it!

Posted by: joye

| July 6, 2008 11:39 PM

There's a black dot i chemistrycrypt which is made in paint, while the crypt is written by a pen. Any ideas of this?

And ive wanted to solve this level for like 3 months now, so that scentece in at the end dosent mean that you have to wait.

Posted by: Timmy | July 19, 2008 1:00 PM

In the page Gosfish I found something unusual. It's not really a spoiler, but I'll use the tag just in case:

When you drag a piece over another piece it sometimes goes over, and sometimes under. I examined it further and noticed that when the picture is complete, the order of lowest to highest pieces is left to right, then up to down. Coincidince? Maybe. But if someone finds an adress relating to this please post.

Thanks

Posted by: oinquarki | July 28, 2008 8:13 PM

Perhaps we shall never know what is behind that mysterious "last" puzzle... *sob*

Posted by: Ainegue

| August 2, 2008 6:23 PM

I solved the level twelve mystery!

click the middle circle, on the white board it says /ILOVELAMP.html type that in

Posted by: spoilerguy | August 3, 2008 11:57 AM

it also says they are working on something bigger

Posted by: spoilerguy | August 3, 2008 12:05 PM

Yes, we know that part. But we're stuck at the chemical equation. Maybe that's the end - maybe they really are just, "working on something bigger", and there really is no answer? Maybe. Sigh.

I looked up "I love lamp" and got a definition from the Urban Dictionary
"Something that is said back to a person who just stated a non sequitar" and "A phrase used when someone has said something particularly unrelated to your own life or personal experience."

So... that means it's completely unrelated and random...?

That is just great.
Pshh.. I give up.

Posted by: Ainegue

| August 27, 2008 6:16 PM

I give up.

Yip. Been trying all this time. Why I've no idea...

Posted by: Sruixan

| September 1, 2008 12:08 PM

In the source code for /theend.html, it says:

Does that mean anything?

Posted by: Acherus | September 6, 2008 11:46 PM

Update