Dismantlement: Smartphone
Wow, Christmas came early, didn't it? Gam.ebb.jp has given us the best christmas present ever, another dismantlement game, Dismantlement: Smartphone. It's dismantling time for the umpteenth time!
For those two or three hardy souls out there who have never tried a dismantling game the concept is simple: take apart an object using only your screwdriver and your wits. Why your wits, you might ask? Because whomever designed these neat little gadgets has decided to copy protect their proprietary hardware in the only way they seem to know how, by creating mind-bending puzzles to slow you down in the process of deconstruction, with a nasty little booby-trap surprise at the end to thwart any would-be reverse engineering knock-off.
Taken as a whole the dismantlement series has been one of the most popular on the site, a basic concept that you might find in another, longer game — taking an object apart — and turned it into its own little genre and art form. Dismantle a radio? We're tuned in. Dismantle a fan? Let's give it a whirl! Dismantle a Burger? Omnomnom...wait, what? Yes, we have taken apart many things in our eternal quest to reduce common objects to their basic components, even something so esoteric as a Tea Canister. Does Smartphone live up to the standards of those that came before it?
Well, yes and no. The initial puzzle is definitely a tricky one, no question. Unfortunately, it goes a little downhill from there, the puzzles becoming progressively easier. The emphasis in Dismantlement: Smart Phone seems to be more on the graphics this time around, and the puzzles do suffer a bit for it. Still loads of fun, but not as difficult as some in the series. Tougher than Dismantlement: Burger, certainly, but still...
This is still a dismantlement game, though, thus a whole lot of puzzle solving fun wrapped up in a neat little package. And for us older folks who are sometimes confused by this newfangled technology stuff, who have trouble with touch screens or tiny little buttons, or who JUST WANT TO MAKE A DARNED PHONE CALL WITHOUT ACCIDENTLY SETTING OFF A CAMERA FLASH RIGHT IN THEIR EYES...um, well, for us this is sweet revenge, to say the least. So get dismantling!
Play Dismantlement: Smartphone
Thanks to Cyberjar88 for the heads-up about the new release!
Walkthrough Guide
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After some help with the first puzzle, the rest of the game was simple.
Opening the Case
Flip the phone over. You'll see UPEX and a grid , both with colors. Click the grid, and you'll find you need a 4-letter password.
Applying the arrow to UPEX, you get PXEU. That's the right order, but the letters aren't quite right...
The first block on the grid is blue and yellow. The letter P is blue, yellow and green. Remove the green part, you get D. See where this is going?
DVLJ
Battery Compartment
Now the phone's open, but you can't remove anything. All you can do is zoom on another grid with an arrow running through it.
Look at the front of the phone. Click the power button. Does the grid look familiar?
4972 Enter
Three locked pieces in the back of the phone. Three puzzles to solve to unlock them.
PUZZLE #1
Another 4-letter passcode. Beneath each letter is a symbol. Those symbols also appear on the clock. The clock corresponds to the times certain messages were sent.
The messages aren't important; look for the letters with arrows over them, in the senders' names. Also, remember how 24-hour time works: 1800 = 6:00, 1500 = 3:00.
HDCT
PUZZLE #2
The only important things here are the colored letters, and the markers with the arrow over them.
LOIX
PUZZLE #3
This pattern of letters should look familiar. Think of a calendar.
The first letter of each month is already given; spell out the rest, and the dark blocks are the letters you need, from left to right.
BIEE
Under the Battery
Look at the back of the phone, remove the pieces and the screws. If you've played Dismantlement games before, you probably know what this is.
Open the WARNING box to start the timer for the bomb puzzle. A grid of letters to the left, and a grid of cherries (and bananas and kiwi) to the right. Weird.
Did you know that the letters in "cherry", "banana" and "kiwi" are exclusive? That is, only Cherry has an H, only Banana has an A, only Kiwi has a W...
For each letter on the grid, change the corresponding picture to the fruit that contains that letter.
Turn the central screw to deactivate the bomb. Click the timer, then the screw behind it, then the place where the screw was. You're done!
Posted by: Larpex | December 18, 2010 2:23 AM
Walkthrough
Back of the Phone:
Check out the back of the phone. See the UPEX logo and the colored diagram?
Zoom in on the diagram and click on it to reveal a four-letter combination lock.
The diagram corresponds with the UPEX logo and appears to be telling you to input the letters in a particular order.
However, putting in PXEU as indicated doesn't work.
There's another clue in the diagram.
See how each block is made of two colored rectangles?
And each letter in the logo is made of three or more different-colored pieces.
What happens if you ignore the parts of the letters that don't match the colors in the corresponding squares?
You're left with JDLV - or as the diagram indicates, DVLJ. Enter it and the screws will appear.
Remove them and open the back of the phone.
Front of the Phone:
Zoom in on the chip that's now visible. Take note of the diagram on it.
Return to the front of the phone and zoom in on the display. You need a four-digit passcode.
Doesn't that ten-digit keypad look familiar?
The diagram on the chip gives the passcode away - it's 4972. Enter it.
Text Messaging:
You're now presented with a diagram of the phone's internals and three app buttons. There are three locked panels, each one corresponding to one of the three apps.
Start with the leftmost one.
Text messages from three animals, a circle of symbols around a lock and another four-letter password entry. What do we make of this?
There are symbols beneath each letter in the password entry corresponding to the symbols in the circle.
There's also a tiny little arrow pointing at a particular letter in each sender's name - the D in "Dog", the "H" in "Chick", the "T" in "Cat", etc.
Each message is also marked with a timestamp.
Doesn't that circle of symbols remind you of a clock face?
The first letter has a star symbol under it, and the star is in the 3 o'clock position in the circle. 3 o'clock is 15:00 in 24-hour time. The Chick's message at 15:00 has an arrow pointing to the "H" in his name, so the first letter of the password is H.
The next symbol is the diamond, which is at 6 o'clock, or 18:00. The Dog's message at 18:00 has an arrow pointing at "D".
And so forth. Third letter = square = 9 o'clock = Chick's 9:00 message = "C". Fourth letter = triangle = Cat's 12:00 message = "T". The password is HDCT.
That's one panel unlocked. Exit the app by clicking the "X" in the top-right corner.
eBook Reader:
Now let's check out the second app.
Good heavens, someone's vandalized this eBook with colored markers. Probably the maniac who's been putting bombs in household electronics. We can even see the markers he used in the bottom-right, and yet another four-letter password entry.
There's an arrow pointing across the markers from left to right.
Enter the letters corresponding to the color order indicated.
LOIX. It's that easy. Exit the app like before.
Calendar:
Here we have the initials for the months of the year arranged from left to right, each with a series of boxes underneath, and...good gravy, yet another four-letter password entry. Don't worry, this is the last one.
Some of the boxes are filled in - one in the column under February, one under April, one under September and one under December.
Count the number of boxes under each letter. Can you figure out their significance?
There are just enough blanks to fill in the rest of each month's name - six under "J(anuary)", seven under "F(ebruary)", four under "M(arch)", and so on.
The filled-in boxes each correspond to a particular letter in the names of certain months.
The second box under the "F" is filled in. What letter in the word "February" would go in that box? That's right: "B".
Then we have the "I" in "April", an "E" in September, and another "E" in "December".
The password is BIEE. Enter it and exit the app.
Endgame:
Return to the back of the phone and remove the three panels to reveal the screws underneath.
Remove the screws, then remove the circuit board.
Zoom in on the battery pack, remove the screws on the gray panel, then remove the panel.
Bomb time again! There's the screw in the middle, which will disarm the bomb once you've solved the puzzle - otherwise, it'll set it off. On either side is a 4-by-4 grid, one filled with letters, the other filled with pictures of cherries. You have five minutes.
Click through one of the panels. Each panel cycles through three pictures: a cherry, a banana and a kiwi (fruit).
Count up the letters. 6 + 6 + 4 = 16. The same as the number of panels in each grid.
Conveniently, there is no overlap between the letters used in the three words - i.e., "cherry" does not contain any of the letters in "banana" or "kiwi".
In other words, the grid on the left contains the letters in "cherry", "banana" and "kiwi" all scrambled up, and you need to set each panel in the grid on the right to the corresponding fruit each letter comes from. "C", "H", "E", "R" or "Y" = cherry, "B", "A" or "N" = banana, "K", "I" or "W" = "kiwi".
Once each panel matches up with each corresponding letter, turn the screw in the middle.
Congratulations! You've dismantled the smartphone!
Posted by: Ryusui
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December 18, 2010 2:28 AM
Dismantlement: Smartphone Walkthrough
Part One: Getting In
You start by facing the front of the phone. You can turn the phone on and zoom in, but you'll be prompted for a password that you don't have yet. Zoom out.
Let's try the back of the phone. Notice the colorful letters at the top of the phone, and the panel with the square at the bottom. You can click each to zoom in, and the panel with the square opens up for a password. Time to get thinking.
The only letters we've seen so far are at the top of the phone. Let's try those
Nope, UPEX doesn't work, let's take a closer look at the square at the bottom.
There's a line on it that could mean the order to enter the letters. Let's try that.
PXEU doesn't work either, there's got to be another hint somewhere.
Look closer at the square. Specifically at the colors in each quadrant
What happens when we look at just those colors in the letters at the top?
Hmm, they kind of form different letters! Let's try those in the order the arrow directs
Enter DVLJ. You should hear a CLICK!
Zoom out. Yay, screws! Good thing we've got a screwdriver. Click the screw in each corner and open up the back of the phone
Part Two: Unlock that Screen!
The only part you can zoom in on is the box in the upper left corner
The box doesn't open, but there is a picture of two lines of boxes and another directional arrow.
Where have we seen two rows of boxes before?
On the front of the phone. Make a note of the arrow's position, and zoom back out
Go back to the front of the phone, turn it on, and zoom in
Remember the position and direction of the arrow, enter the corresponding numbers, and hit enter
4972
Part Three: Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles!
Now you should be seeing a diagram with parts of the back of the phone highlighted with red, and corresponding locks and numbers.
The three buttons below the diagram each open into a separate puzzle window that connects to one of the highlighted areas. As you complete each puzzle, its corresponding area will turn green
*1
You should see a screen resembling an instant message or chat room conversation
There's a 4-letter code area at the bottom right of the screen
DOG, CHICK, and CAT are all the wrong number of letters, so there must be something else
Look closer at the names in the chat
There are triangles over specific letters
DHTCC is still one too many letters, so we need to narrow it down further
The lock with the shapes around it looks suspiciously like a hint
There are also time stamps next to each post in the chat
Imagine the lock with the shapes around it as the face of a clock
Match up the time stamps with the corresponding shape on the clock face
18:00 = diamond, 15:00 = star, 12:00 = triangle, 9:00 = square
Use the highlighted letters from before to go with each symbol for your code at the bottom
HDCT
*2
You should see something that looks like a written document with highlighter marks on it, along with another 4-letter code
Look at the highlighter marks. Don't they kind of look like letters?
As expected, LIOX is not the code, so let's see what other order it could be
At the right of the page, there's a row of the four highlighters with an arrow drawn over them. Let's try that
Enter LOIX for the code
*3
You should see an arrow pointing across a row of letters that are sitting above columns of boxes. There is another 4-letter code
Some of the boxes are highlighted. That'll probably give us the code if we can figure out what they represent
FASD doesn't work, so what else could these letters mean?
Let's see, there are 12 letters in the row. What else comes in a group of 12?
The months of the year
Since we know our code is letters, not numbers, we know the rest of these boxes also must represent letters.
Why are the columns all different lengths?
Spell out the months
Now just take the letter that goes with each highlighted box, and enter it into your code
BIEE
That should open all 3 of your phone areas
Part Four: The Bomb!
Return to the back of the phone and click the 3 areas that went with the highlighted areas on the phone. You are rewarded with screws! Click them, and remove the phone's back
Zoom in, and click the screws on the box that says Warning
Be prepared, this next section gives you a 5-minute time limit
You should see a grid of numbers, a grid of cherries, the bomb timer, and the bomb's switch in the middle
Click a cherry. It turns into a banana. Click again. Now it's a kiwi.
Which ones should go where? Have a look at the letters
Notice the grid is made of the letters for CHERRY, BANANA, and KIWI
change the fruits to match the grid of letters
diagram (C = cherry, B = banana, K = kiwi):
KBCK
CCBC
BBCB
KCKB
Now turn the bomb switch to diffuse it. The timer should stop and turn green
Click the timer to remove it and reveal a screw. Click it, and you're done!
Posted by: tigrita
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December 18, 2010 2:48 AM