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Family Room Escape


Weekday Escape

JayAs we say goodbye to 2008 and welcome the coming of 2009, everyone here at JIG offers our best wishes for a warm and prosperous new year. Family Room EscapeAlthough we have seen many changes during the last year, one thing you can always count on from us is a little Weekday Escape to brighten your Wednesdays and give you some distraction from the work week grind.

Family Room Escape is a simple and charming room escaper from Japan that is just right for an afternoon tea. Filled with objects to find and puzzles to solve, and just a few smallish pixel areas to give you pause. It's simple, short and sweet, like a new year's baby offering promise of a better life ahead. So Happy Birthday 2008!

Play Family Room Escape

Walkthrough Guide

Text Walkthrough

click the star

click the video on the middle shelf

go right

click the star then click on the fish tank until you hear a water sound

click the freezer twice

click the fridge and get the mother figure

click under the fish tank's stand and click the fish

go right twice

click under the couch and get the screwdriver

click the fish and examine it

click on the fish's fin to flip it over and reveal the screw

click the screwdriver then click the screw

click the battery

click the video and then click the VCR player to put the video in the player

go right twice

click the freezer then the star

click the star and examine it

click the ice star in the center of the star

go left once

click the bear

click the slit on the bear's stomach and put in the battery

click the stand on the bottom shelf

click on the ice star and put it in the stand

click the spacebar to open up the stand and get the key

go right twice

click on the red dot

click on the opening then on the picture on the right

click on the green guy figure that was behind the picture

click on the key then the drawer twice to open it

click on the cable

go right once

click the cable and around the upper left corner of the VCR player (it's only a few pixels) to get the outlet

plug in the tv

click on the blue button to turn the tv on and see the code

the code translates to 24386. 24 books on the shelves, 3 bells on the tree, 8 strawberries on the cake, and 6 fish.

go left once

input 24386 on the safe and open to get the blue daughter figure

view the image, note if the mom is 20 or 22

click the grid above the door

put the blue in the upper left slot

if 20: put the pink in the 2nd row, 4th slot. if 22: put the pink in the 3rd row, 3rd slot.

put the green guy in the 4th row, 3rd slot

click on the door handle and escape

Video Walkthrough

33 Comments [leave a comment]

Fun, straight forward. It's been a while since I've solved one of these without a walkthrough.

Hardest part is the ages. Time passes!

I think I have the number combination for the box, but it is not working.

From the TV, it appears the code should be first, the number of books (I count 23 on the bookshelf, it's two digits so that accounts for the blank first space), second, the number of bells (3 on the Christmas tree), third, the number of strawberries (8 on the cake in the Happy Birthday picture), and last the number of fish (5 in the tank, or 6 if you count the mechanical one you earlier got the battery from, I've tried it both ways).

So that gives me a 5 digit code, but it doesn't work! What am I doing wrong?

Is it just me, or is this game not loading properly? I'm getting the title screen, and nothing happens when I click.

Elana,

I think you miscounted

the books

Does the TV turn on?

All I have really been able to do so far is

put tape into vcr

Nevermind, I got it to work.

That wasn't too bad, took some pixel finding which makes it a bit annoying sometimes, and also has a lack of feedback about what you've achieved sometimes. Still, not bad.

Ah, thank you, djazzie.

That last book is very skinny. And it did count the fish with the battery.

Text Walkthrough

click the star

click the video on the middle shelf

go right

click the star then click on the fish tank until you hear a water sound

click the freezer twice

click the fridge and get the mother figure

click under the fish tank's stand and click the fish

go right twice

click under the couch and get the screwdriver

click the fish and examine it

click on the fish's fin to flip it over and reveal the screw

click the screwdriver then click the screw

click the battery

click the video and then click the VCR player to put the video in the player

go right twice

click the freezer then the star

click the star and examine it

click the ice star in the center of the star

go left once

click the bear

click the slit on the bear's stomach and put in the battery

click the stand on the bottom shelf

click on the ice star and put it in the stand

click the spacebar to open up the stand and get the key

go right twice

click on the red dot

click on the opening then on the picture on the right

click on the green guy figure that was behind the picture

click on the key then the drawer twice to open it

click on the cable

go right once

click the cable and around the upper left corner of the VCR player (it's only a few pixels) to get the outlet

plug in the tv

click on the blue button to turn the tv on and see the code

the code translates to 24386. 24 books on the shelves, 3 bells on the tree, 8 strawberries on the cake, and 6 fish.

go left once

input 24386 on the safe and open to get the blue daughter figure

view the image, note if the mom is 20 or 22

click the grid above the door

put the blue in the upper left slot

if 20: put the pink in the 2nd row, 4th slot. if 22: put the pink in the 3rd row, 3rd slot.

put the green guy in the 4th row, 3rd slot

click on the door handle and escape

Video Walkthrough

About the TV

How do you get the cord? I have put the video in, I have the big star, the mom and the dad. I just can't find the cord to make it work!

Mark,
perhaps you need to find something for it? have you tried

looking behind it?

How do you know which figures go in which squares to open the final door? The walkthrough doesn't explain why the answer is what it is. :(

JIGuest:

You have to place the keys according to each family members' age, using the grid on the back of the family photograph as a reference (it works as a times table; 2 x 4 = 8 years old, etc).

The trick is that the ages aren't exactly as they appear on the front of the photograph; you have to consider that the son is eight years old now, according to the number of candles on his birthday cake, so you need to add eight years to each of the parents as they were at the time of his birth (when the photograph appears to have been taken).

So the father is 28, the mother is 20/22, and the child 8? This seems to be pushing it a bit biologically.

@David:

Look at the photo. The kid was a baby at the time. Therefore, the parents had the kid at 28 and 20/22.

I have a feeling this was made last year(since it's Happy Birthday 2008). Unless of course 2008 will celebrate it's first birthday.

[Edit: Nope. The page says: "08/12/23 公開 (Published)" therefore I'd have to say it's in celebration of 2008's first birthday. -Jay]

Ah ok, thanks very much TinyToaster! I didn't even see the times table on the other side of the photograph!

"Happy Birthday 2008" doesn't refer to the year 2008's birthday! It's a clue:

It refers to the year the birthday picture was taken (2008). There are eight candles on the cake, making the child 8 years old. Therefore the picture you find later was taken in 2000. That makes mom either 28 or 30 and Dad 36, important info needed for the door puzzle

wow this game is very interesting and pretty difficult at the final door. pretty good game!

the game gliched and gave me all the items

I feel really dumb. It took me forever to not figure out

where to put the people,

and I had to resort to the posted walkthrough. My brain did not have any interest in actually thinking today or something. Thanks to TinyToaster for explaining the reasoning for it. The walkthrough was okay, but I like to know why I'm supposed to do something in a game.

I can't get the ice star out.. any help please?

bah, got it, sorry.

Ah, the text walkthrough wasn't much help when it came to putting the figures in the grid, and I wasn't about to search the video walkthrough for it so I did it myself, not hard, but good concept.

I know Lhyzz reported the title screen loading and then nothing. I'm running into the same thing. The title screen appears as a linkable object, but clicking on it does nothing. Any thoughts?

Try clicking directly on the text: "Family Room" on the title screen.

I had the same problem, too.

Yikes. This was the worst room escape game I ever played. Of course, it's probably just me because it's soooo logical to find a fake fish under the fish tank and unscrew it to find a battery. (but aren't a lot of these games like that anyways?) And that last part with getting the family in the right slots in the door sure made a lot of sense too...
Okay, it almost makes sense once the reasoning is explained, but I couldn't have done it by myself.

I randomly had the boy at the beginning. O.O

This is one of those point and click games which, as Yahtzee says, is "powered by moon logic."

This was pretty bad. It made no sense on clicking points. I almost wish I hadn'y been able to get it started. I agree, "moon logic"

fab wrk..guys can't wait for more of these games.!!

I like the game... Clean, fresh, and dangerous!

The ages trick!

The trick is that the ages aren't exactly as they appear on the front of the photograph; you have to consider that the son is eight years old now, according to the number of candles on his birthday cake, so you need to add eight years to each of the parents as they were at the time of his birth (when the photograph appears to have been taken).

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