So much about life is uncertain, each day so new and full of possibilities, it's impossible to imagine what could be next. If you're the anxious sort of individual, you might be a little rattled by how little time is actually under our control. But not today, my friend. Today you have Weekday Escape; here you are the master of your domain—the room in which you are captive. And the three free escape games we have for you this week are as comforting in their predictability while still being just fresh enough and creative enough to whisk you away from all your other worries. If you have a few minutes to spare, then indulge in the sweet goodness awaiting in FunkyLand's fruit kitchen, pause for halftime in Hottategoya's strange locker room, then finish by puzzling over Yomino Kagura's three pictures...
Escape from the Strange Locker Room 2 - Hottategoya's usual formula—three puzzles, clues embedded in the furnishings, overall minimalist design—is all over this space. There's actually very little strange about this room except how you keep getting locked up in here. Usually all the fun is out on the playing field, but when you don't have more than five minutes to spare, you've come to the right place. While the cursor is unchanging, there's no hidden hotspots and most everything you need to escape is right out in the open. Added to a clean design and straight-forward logic, that means you'll be done here in no time.
Fruit Kitchens No.11: Pineapple Yellow - For the love of all that's yellow and sweet, you haven't tasted a truly delicious pineapple unless you've stood under the Hawaiian sun at the local's farmer market and eaten your fresh find right then and there. Moreover, you haven't indulged in a truly funky escape until you've been inside one of FunkyLand's whimsical kitchens. So much of the enjoyment is in gazing at the clever decor and creative clue presentation, you might get sidetracked and take longer than needed to solve puzzles and gather the seven prickly fruits needed to escape. It's all as you'd expect a FunkyLand kitchen to be as far as aesthetics, but there's nothing overly surprising about the puzzles and they're easier than most, just remember to look everywhere for clues and places to use your inventory.
Escape from the Room of Three Pictures - In some regards, if you've seen one Yomino Kagura escape, you've them all. Yet there's something appealing about them all the same, made for the room escape enthusiast who is short on time but appreciative of pure puzzle solving. Armed with a willingness to infer and a few maths skills, make full use of the changing cursor to uncover active areas where you'll find coded locks and the hints that help you open them. When you've put all the pieces together, your escape is nearby. Note: some knowledge of or the ability to translate katakana lettering is needed to access certain clues.
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Walkthrough Guide
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Left Locker Puzzle (2x3 array of buttons)
Look at the lockers labeled with Roman Numerals, I, II, III, IV, V, and VI (1-6). Each of the 6 lockers in the 2x3 array is associated with a roman numeral. To figure it out, see which locker is open when the roman numeral appears.
For example, the first one, I, is the top right.
The others are:
4 is top left, 6 is top middle, 5 is bottom left, 3 is bottom middle, and 2 is bottom right.
The numbers indicate the order that you click the black buttons in the Left Locker Puzzle.
Middle Locker Puzzle (black lines)
The middle locker has a set of lines with a arrow indicating order. the first one is very low, then low then high then low then high, then very high. This one refers to the set of 4 lockers, where the leftmost (A) has a low shelf. Next to it, B, is a locker with a very high shelf. Then (C) a very low shelf, and last a high shelf D. So the lockers A, B, C, and D, have levels 3,1,4,2. So to unlock the middle locker, the order to open those four locker is
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Right Locker Puzzle (3x3 array of buttons)
This is a map of the tables. The corner with only 2 tables is fixed, constraining the orientation.
The corner with 2 tables is the top left, and should be vertical. The other (parallel) vertical sets are: middle right and bottom middle. The rest are perpendicular (horizontal).
Posted by: 5un5 | September 17, 2014 1:31 AM
Fruit Kitchens No. 11: Pineapple Yellow Walkthrough
Pineapple locations, starting with the table and going clockwise around the room.
1.
Table
The poor pineapple has been encased in clay. If only you could break the clay somehow. (Apparently, the knife that is Right. There. is not a suitable tool.)
Use the mallet, which you can find wedged into the handle of the drawer under the stove.
2.
Behind the frog
Before you zoom in, you can sort of see that there's a clue for this on the left side of the frog's base, but once you've zoomed in it's a bit of a pixel hunt.
Orange 4, green 1, blue 2 - move the sliders on the board above the frog accordingly. (Colorblind: 241) If you get it right, the sign at the top will show a pineapple and the word OPEN.
3.
Fridge
No puzzling with this one, just open the refrigerator.
4.
Back corner of the kitchen counter
The box needs a knob, which you can get from the frog.
This time, the code is green 4, blue 3, orange 2 (colorblind: 324). If you get it right, the sign at the top will show a frog and the word OPEN.
Put the knob into the box and click it twice: once to retrieve the "+" part of it that you will need elsewhere, and once to actually open the box.
5.
Canned whole pineapple, get your canned whole pineapple here (to the left of the stove)
Seriously, what's the point of putting a whole, fresh pineapple in a can? No matter, the can opener is right there on the window ledge.
6.
Caged pineapple? Really, now, who does these things?
Look at the small vertical box between the stove and the butcher-block table. Open the top door and do some math.
Put the knob with the "+" sign into the slot, then press two numbers that complete the equation.
You can choose any two different numbers in any order, as long as they add up to six: 1+5, 5+1, 4+2, or 2+4. (3+3 won't work because you can't pick 3 twice.)
Don't forget to press OK.
7.
Look out the window
Open the back right window, above the butcher-block table. Pick the pineapple. (Uh, someone needs to study up on their pineapple horticulture.)
Posted by: Reka | September 17, 2014 3:48 PM