Jay is games: Comments

Comment on "Play Cross Stitch 2 - Coloring Book"

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:35:02 -0500

The cells are not locked-in until you paint them with the correct color, so you can just repaint errors. Theoretically, you could just paint over the entire picture with each color and only the correct ones will lock-in.

- Brf

Comment on "Play Cross Stitch 2 - Coloring Book"

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:39:30 -0500

Nicely done and good for relaxation, especially the very complex drawings, however, there is no "erase" aka UNDO key that I could find. So in order to correct my coloring/ embroidery mistake (which for me is inevitable), I have to start the project anew.

- jcfclark

Comment on "The Bonfire Forsaken Lands - How to Rule It"

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:36:05 -0500

To get started, it's crucial that you gather enough wood to build your first bonfire. This will not only provide warmth and comfort, but it will also attract wanderers to your campsite. Once they arrive, you have the opportunity to build relationships and create a community. So, be sure to invite them to stay with you if you have enough space. After all, the more, the merrier!

- joe

Comment on "Popular Handheld Gaming Options to Explore in 2023"

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:35:02 -0500

Amazing. There are other variations of this for mobile gaming as well, but if you prefer to play on the Switch, this is definitely your best chance not to be bombarded with adverts all the time.

- joe

Comment on "Play Kitty Cat Puzzle"

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:39:36 -0500

This game seems very promising. I am eagerly anticipating the opportunity to play it.

- joe

Comment on "The Best 8 Japanese Games of the Last 5 Years"

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:15:24 -0500

In the last half-decade, Japanese game developers have been pushing the limits of creativity, storytelling, and gameplay to bring us a plethora of extraordinary titles that have captured the hearts of gamers worldwide.

- joe

Comment on "The Best Indie Games to Play For Spouses "

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:20:04 -0500

Playing video games together is an excellent way for couples to achieve shared goals and feel an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. Whether they're teaming up to conquer a challenging level, defeat a difficult boss, or unlock exclusive rewards, these mutual successes can significantly boost their satisfaction and fulfillment in the relationship.

- joe

Comment on "Play Kitty Cat Puzzle"

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:56:37 -0500

Continuous color saturation but no actual game starts

- sue

Comment on "Banner game by Rob Allen"

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:37:57 -0500

Just need the G (if it still works)

- Ovnidemon

Comment on "Support"

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:01:21 -0500

Sorry to bother you, but what were the banner mini games that you made? There was the 2 banner by Rob Allen and the "Robot want JIG" but I don't remember if there was other or not.
(Well you could say that "Escape from Jay is games" was also a banner games)

- Ovnidemon

Comment on "JiG is here: Game Bundles, Discounts, and Giveaways"

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:11:22 -0500

Hi JIG Admin --> If I subscribe to the New JIG, how easy will it be to unsubscribe, should that decision arise?

- jcfclark

Comment on "Play Super Steve Adventure"

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:47:06 -0500

Nice. It's based on Mario Brother's game, right?

- joe

Comment on "The US Gaming Market Looking At Stats"

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:41:47 -0500

Many of the world's largest tournaments have been played in the United States, including the League of Legends World Cup, The International, and more.

- joe

Comment on "Play Wood Block Puzzle"

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:54:16 -0500

This is popular in 2010. Love it.

- joe

Comment on "Beyond the Table: Lessons Learned from Playing Cards Online"

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:57:04 -0500

Interesting.Practicing discipline in these games involves weighing the possible choices and calculating the associated risks before making a major move. That's correct!

- joe

Comment on "Play Dinosaurs Merge Masters "

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 01:54:14 -0500

Interesting. I might play it later since i'm so obsess with dinosaurs.

- joe

Comment on "Play Stack Ball Fall 3D"

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:58:46 -0500

Nice game yet i agree with JC's suggestion. There's always room for improvement. Nevertheless, You did a great job!

- joe

Comment on "Play Stack Ball Fall 3D"

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:40:24 -0500

Sound effects are the best part of this game! A timer would be good to see if you can beat your own speeds. Nice that if you goof up there's no need to begin again from level one. Not sure how the clockwise/counter cw feature turns on/off? Feels like after level 20 the game kind of starts over?

- jcfclark

Comment on "Play Turn Turn "

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:16:52 -0500

Nice game. Good job to the developer!

- joe

Comment on "Play Dinosaurs Merge Masters "

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:54:56 -0500

Hello, I really liked dinosaurs merge masters, I played it for hours until I beat the last level, while I played only a few minutes polypuzzle, hexa block puzzle and draw 2 save - stickman rescue, so I'd like to see more games like this one. To be honest, it has that little gameplay that it can barely be even called a "game", but while listening podcasts, I liked to merge about 1024 units then click "start fight" and "get" for a while, wondering what would the last level looks like, what beating it would do, being amazed that the game always manage to prevent the game being blocked by giving a higher tier unit so when the board is full of last tier units it even directly gives the last tier unit, and I like that the amount of gold have more and more digits. By the way, it's not important, but something must have happened to the ranking, there were 4 players that reached the last level, now there might be not even 1.

- zzzzz

Comment on "Techniques for Getting Your Friends Into Video Games You Like"

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:43:12 -0500

Introducing your friends to games you like can be an enjoyable experience. It also provides an opportunity for them to ask questions, share experiences, and bond over gaming.

- joe

Comment on "Rare In-Game Items and How to Find Them"

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:38:47 -0500

I agree.

- joe

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:33:49 -0500

It's not a bad idea at all. I would personally go for it.

- joe

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:56:38 -0500

Thank you very much. Most of us are here for the escape games.

- joe

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Sun, 28 May 2023 06:43:14 -0500

Thank you so much for your words (and for all the comments). And yes for a while it looked like JIG was turning into chrpa's blog...I never intended that. It has been a big and important part of my life for over six years but a lot has changed and I have been getting more and more tired and the joy of playing has been fading for months. It was time for a change. I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity for six years to share (mostly) good games and create articles - among other things, I've found I enjoy and am good at graphic design - and I hope I've been making people happy by doing so. I wish everyone the best of luck in gaming and in life.

- chrpa

Comment on "Rare In-Game Items and How to Find Them"

Sat, 20 May 2023 12:04:33 -0500

There are a ton of rare items in Kingdom of Loathing, including Ultra Rares.

- Graceland9

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Sun, 14 May 2023 00:37:43 -0500

Many many thanks to you, Chrpa, for keeping JIG alive! It couldn't have been easy finding the time to contribute to this site (you've been a one-man-band for some time now!) but knowing it was a labor of love on your part made it a bit easier I'm sure. All the best to you in your future journeys -- and keep on gaming!

- jcfclark

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Sun, 14 May 2023 00:03:25 -0500

I’ve been enjoying JayIsGames probably since its inception (and have often wondered how & where Jay progressed to spread his many talents). Thank you for this long time of thorough enjoyment. But after 20-some years my tastes, and even interest in gaming has changed along with my finger flexibility and keyboard agility, and I’ve never been into online gaming. Your proposed future for JIG sounds well-rounded and terrific for the younger gamer, but the gaming world lost a large portion of my heart with the demise of flash. In all honesty, I’d be interested in only a very small portion of what you intend to offer and, so, would not become a member. But, JIG has a large, loyal audience and I know it will succeed in its new adventure!

- jcfclark

Comment on "World of Warcraft: Top 10 Locations For Beginners"

Wed, 10 May 2023 23:47:26 -0500

What the hell is happening with JayIsGames? Your advice in that second paragraph to use Skycoach to purchase World Of Warcraft gold outside the game is the fastest way to get a user's account permanently banned. (Here's the info on real money transactions from Blizzard themselves, along with a convenient link to the End User License Agreement.)

Not only could this get someone banned from the game, people get scammed by these gold/farming/boosting services all the time. You could lose all your in-game goodies and gold, or even worse—outside the game, you could find your credit card suddenly maxxed out, your bank account empty, and your identity stolen.

This is terrible advice, and should be retracted before one of your users falls prey to it.

- jF

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Tue, 09 May 2023 13:47:50 -0500

I have been visiting JIG for many years, through most of it's iterations and really appreciate all you have done to maintain the site. I would not be able to sign up for a monthly membership

- stupidcheeseboy

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Mon, 08 May 2023 03:31:42 -0500

i will consider it!

- Krizpy

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Sun, 07 May 2023 18:34:21 -0500

Same here.

- barbara

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Fri, 05 May 2023 05:58:00 -0500

I agree with Operagypsy and I am also currently a donator. Have enjoyed this site for years and would love to see it continue.

- Trinaka

Comment on "Proposing a New Platform: JiG"

Thu, 04 May 2023 18:54:28 -0500

I would go for this; I'm already donating about half that through Patreon. I don't know where else I will easily find games that I enjoy playing & have been grateful for many years for the existence of this site. I really hope this plan brings new life to JayisGames!

- operagypsy

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Thu, 04 May 2023 03:31:56 -0500

To be honest jF's comments get my vote. JIG is no longer the site it used to be and that's a real shame. I can cope with the adverts, but the pop up videos just don't do it for me. Mobile Monday and Weekday Escape were something to look foreward to, but alas no more. The new article based format is just plain boring, if I want such content I can find it elsewhere.

To the new owners of JIG - have a care what you do otherwise you might lose a load of visitors (me included).

GlixD

- GlixD

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 03 May 2023 17:52:33 -0500

Wow. how did you get out of the third room?

- joe

Comment on "Elements"

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:02:43 -0500

230428 (today): Just replayed this ELEMENTS game on Flashpoint (most Tesshi-e games are on Flashpoint too!). It took hours but I FINISHED it with no help after 8 years since I first played it when it was released. I have played thousands and thousands of escape room games and THIS is my favorite!

- jaybo33

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:24:06 -0500

Thank you very, very much! And maybe there will be more WE because I sent the site owners information and links. We'll see.

- chrpa

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:21:39 -0500

Forgive the bluntness, but what exactly is happening wth JayIsGames? Is the site about to cease operations? Has there been a change in management? If chrpa was operating on a volunteer basis, as stated in his message above, then who's getting the money for all those banner ads and autoplay videos we have to put up with?

I think your loyal users (and there are a lot of us, some of whom just lurk and comment on the rarest of occasions) deserve a bit of explanation as to what's happening with the site. So far, we've been told over e-mail (yes, some of us are still subscribed after all these years) that the site is being revamped to improve its content offerings. So far, that appears to be little more than a series of gaming-related articles (two of which don't even have links to the games described in the article. (Namely, 15 Browser Games Students Try During a Class Break" and "5 Cat-Centric Video Games You'll Love".)

I dare say you're losing sight of what traditionally made JayIsGames such an enjoyable place to hang out—fun escape games, lively conversations, and text-based walkthroughs for those of us who just couldn't figure out that one devilish clue. We know quality escape games are in short supply these days, but they do still exist. Finding them isn't impossible, and we certainly wouldn't be against a "retro" feature to revisit older games when new ones are in short supply. There are always interesting things to keep your loyal audience engaged, even if it isn't the newest tomoLaSiDo or Amajeto—you might have to hunt for them, but they're there.

And what possibilities the JiG site holds! How about hosting an escape-room equivalent of Ludum Dare? Or a contest for the best Room Escape Maker game? Free games for your users, and free publicity for the JiG site. Most of us are here for the escape games, but there is so much else you could keep us coming back with. Soooooo many things you could do here, if you open your imagination a bit.

I hope any response will be here on the site, not over the e-mail newsletter (I imagine some users no longer have access to the address they signed up with, and I'm sure all your loyal users would like to hear on the site itself what your plans are with JiG and what we may expect in the future.

Much respect, and I anxiously await your answer.

- jF

Comment on "Monkey Go Happy Roundup 73 - Retro"

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:36:04 -0500

Awww, chrpa, thank you so much for keeping this beloved site going after it looked like it was finished. I miss the heyday of JiG & I'm sad to think there may be no more Wednesday joy... but I'm grateful for all you have been doing. Wishing you well!

- operagypsy

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°385"

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:35:22 -0500

Cute game Tamerisu! It would be helpful if it were a minute or so longer, especially nighttime (which really whizzes by), since I spend too dang much time skipping back home once I've figured out I can't pack anymore in my cheek pouches.

- jcfclark

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°385"

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:05:10 -0500

Tamerisu Guide!
General tips:
Interact with bushes, trees, etc. to shake food (or other things!) out of them. Most can be shaken several times.
Some items might only appear during one time of day. There are four periods of the day: Morning, midday, evening, night.
Items still in your mouth at the end of the day won't count towards your points or discoveries, only items in your home stump. Get them back to your stump before the end of day, or lose them!
You run slower the more you have in your mouth, but this only depends on how many things, not how big they are.

Item guide, arranged by the order they appear in your discovery book:

Acorn:

10 points. All over. Some hide in trees or bushes.

Pine cone:

30 points. Shake the trees north of home.

Peanut:

10 points. Shake the bushes west of the pond, sometimes you'll get a peanut instead of an acorn.

Hazelnut:

30 points. Shake the leaf pile next to home for an acorn. Take the acorn back to your stump. Shake the leaf pile again, you'll get a hazelnut instead.

Walnut:

30 points. Sitting in the basket trap. You can grab it after you free yourself from the trap, this takes four shakes.

Persimmon:

30 points. Falls behind the tree closest to home around the start of midday.

Egg:

100 points. Shake the tree closest to home a lot, and keep taking away the acorns and pinecones. Eventually, you'll shake out an egg.

Mushroom:

10 points. Shake the small mushroom closest to the cave in the northwest. You can also go into the cave a few times to bring one out.

Bundle of mushrooms:

10 points. Shake the small mushroom south of the cave entrance. You can also go into the cave a few times to bring one out.

Purple mushroom:

10 points. Shake the big mushroom east of the cave entrance.

Red mushroom:

10 points. Shake the big mushroom south of the cave entrance. A little red mushroom will fall on your head. It'll come off if you go into the cave, your home, or if you just wait long enough, and you can pick it up then.

Skull:

30 points. Go into the cave in the northwest five times. Maybe not the best eating for winter.

Battery:

50 points. Wait until night, and one of the tall mushrooms in the west will be glowing brightly. Shake it to turn it off and take its battery.

Carrot:

10 points. Pull it out of the garden in the southwest.

Sunflower seed:

10 points. Can't be collected until evening, when the sunflowers in the garden droop. Shake one for a seed.

Pumpkin seed:

10 points. Shake the pumpkin in the garden for a seed.

Pumpkin:

50 points. Shake five seeds out of the pumpkin, and you can take the pumpkin instead.

Sweet potato:

50 points. Pull on the vine in the garden. Can only be pulled out when your mouth is full of 5 things. Don't forget to come back for the sweet potato!

Half-eaten biscuit:

50 points. Pick it up near the garden in the early morning. It slowly leaves the screen by midday. Maybe ants are taking it?

Snail:

10 points. Shake the bush south of the pond.

Dragonfly:

50 points. Shows up at the pond at noon, halfway through midday. Not easy to catch!

Puzzle piece:

100 points. On the island in the pond. Lilypads appear in the pond in the evening and make a bridge. Hurry and run to the island! Don't worry, you can't get trapped.

Dandelion:

10 points. East of the pond. In the evening, the ones you don't eat turn white and blow away when you get close. Make a wish!

Red berries:

10 points. In the obvious bushes east of the dandelions.

Blue berries:

10 points. In the obvious bush in the far southeast. Get them in the morning!

Worm:

10 points. In the blue berry bush in the southeast, but only during midday or later.

Ghost:

50 points. Hangs around the berry bushes once night falls. I didn't know squirrels could eat ghosts!

Key:

100 points. A secret. I haven't found if it unlocks anything!
Sub-guide:

After night falls, check near the mushrooms.

Some glowing mushroom gunk on the ground says 31213.

Is there anything around that looks like 1, 2, or 3?

The red berry bushes have 2, 1, and 3 berries on them from north to south.

Shake the red berry bushes in the order given by the glowing gunk: The bush with 3 berries, then 1, then 2, then 1, then 3. A key will pop out.

Clam:

10 points. Washes up on shore all day long.

Starfish:

10 points. Shake the rock near the beach.

Message in a bottle:

50 points. Floating in the water in the early morning. Get it before it washes out to sea.

Hand brush:

50 points. Floating in the water in the evening. Get it before it washes out to sea.

Shooting star:

100 points. Falls on the beach halfway through the night. A delicious midnight snack!

- chief_grief

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°383"

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:55:11 -0500

I'm Too Big For The Target was excellent, very creative. I didn't totally get some parts of what was happening until quite near the end.

- kksl1der20

Comment on "5 Cat-Centric Video Games You'll Love"

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:06:57 -0500

Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector (2014) is a mobile app, available from Google play or Apple app store. Looks like great fun! And other than Cats (2019) which we cannot seem to locate, the rest of these games are available for download on Steam.

- jcfclark

Comment on "5 Cat-Centric Video Games You'll Love"

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:16:03 -0500

And when I look for the game Cats (2019), I get the 'Cats (2019) drinking game'. ha! Just may try it.

- jcfclark

Comment on "5 Cat-Centric Video Games You'll Love"

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 04:43:23 -0500

No links to any of these games? All I'm finding when looking for that Cats (2019) game is the musical movie from that same year… 🤔

- jF

Comment on "Support"

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:30:57 -0500

hopefully i can post this. your site is mad broken rn

- Krizpy

Comment on "Play Marble Puzzle Blast "

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:12:56 -0500

Much like Zuma except in Zuma, one could easily distinguish the differences in color.

- jcfclark

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°383"

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:36:59 -0500

Ack—it appears Hellgineers has disappeared from that site. From the developer's Itch.io page, I'd wager he decided to start charging for it and killed off any demos. 🙁

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°383"

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:09:10 -0500

End Of The Hourglass has a nice aesthetic, but what on earth was that all about? 😁 I did notice one small glitch—when dragging the screen to see the right side of the room, it kept jumping to the grandfather clock. There must be a stray hotspot or something, but it's only a minor thing and doesn't interfere with gameplay.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°383"

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:06:21 -0500

You guys might wanna check your CSS—the mobile version of the new site looks fine, but it's all janky on the desktop side.

A simple change of attribute fixed this for me. Take a look at vs-blog.css on line 738—I overrode the #beta id selector and changed the position attribute from "absolute" to "relative". (It was defined earlier as relative positioning on line 104.) With that change, everything on the page looks perfect.

Growing pains, eh? 🙂

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°381"

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:07:11 -0500

Ah. I thought you were talking about one of those tomoLaSiDo puzzles where you have to look at the left or right side of a device to find something else involved. 😁

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°381"

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:23:26 -0500

The three-digit code - you need to look at it from the outside. Before I figured it out, I thought it was a bug.

- chrpa

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°381"

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:13:46 -0500

chrpa, which puzzle in Escape Challenge 183: Room With Flower Pots were you referring to regarding the "multiple angles"? This was one of tomoLaSiDo's easier ones, I thought…

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°381"

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:15:11 -0500

Juurru is lovely!

Was that really only 24 levels? Seemed like so many more. It has this really lost, isolated vibe which I found really appealing. Simple pixel art graphics, gorgeous sound. Only possible complaint is I wish the character moved a bit faster as a root—you can tap the directions repeatedly to get around faster, but it's tiresome to do so.

But other than that, bravo!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°381"

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:29:20 -0500

A Hollow Heartbeat has a lot of issues. There's nothing in the UI to tell you what you're picking up, so you wind up with things in your inventory with no clue what they are. And the spelling and grammar is atrocious in this one—made my head hurt just to read it! 😣

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Puzzle N°72"

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 01:12:13 -0500

Love the background music in Michal Barczszewski's Jigsaw puzzle.

- jcfclark

Comment on "Lemon"

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:03:53 -0500

Quite enjoyable and lovely as ever, but the navigation was quite confusing—kept going in circles! 😁

- jF

Comment on "100 Doors: Escape Room"

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:39:15 -0500

This game could have been quite nice—well-done graphics, good sound, a bit of plot to follow along with. But it was marred by dreadful sliding puzzles, pipe mazes, and nonograms. And these were used way too many times—they cease to be enjoyable the second or third time you see them, not to mention the twentieth or thirtieth. Another huge problem is the use of tiny detail which is going to be difficult to make out on smaller monitors and outright impossible on tablets or phones.

And as Pulsaris mentioned, there appear to be a few bugs. For example, Level 47:

When you take the brick (?) out of the fireplace, you see absolutely nothing when inspecting it. If you're sharp-eyed, you can just make out the square, triangle, and what appear to be two circles on it when viewed in the inventory. Turns out the two circles are a circle and a hexagon, and these clue you in to the solution on the mechanical man's four-digit lock (4, 3, 0, 6).

This is either a woeful bug, or extremely bad game design.

Thankfully, someone put up a walkthrough video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjY9OeghVk which will help you hurry through those endless and annoying slider/pipe/nonogram puzzles.

- jF

Comment on "Lemon"

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:37:43 -0500

As usual, a great escape game from Rinnogogo.

- Graceland9

Comment on "100 Doors: Escape Room"

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 02:13:05 -0500

What a buggy game with an underwhelming ending.

- Pulsaris

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:10:50 -0500

Ahhhhhh. Thought I might have overlooked something—thanks!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:46:56 -0500

if you click the area

below the desk while on the radio scene, the morse code is provided. it's just not clear that clicking there will give you a clue :)

- Krizpy

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:12:02 -0500

Googling morse code like you said will give you the answer, but it was a pretty easy guess without looking it up.

4 dots and a dash = 4
You can probably guess the rest

- Birnie

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:35:03 -0500

Frog Corral is cute. Be extremely careful on Level 10, as the screen scrolls near a one-way ramp, and it's quite easy to get your frogs separated from the purple ball at that spot.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:14:19 -0500

Did I miss a clue somewhere in Escape Or Die 4?

I know the completed radio phone gives you the Morse code for the footlocker combination, but was there somewhere in the game which showed what Morse code for numbers actually is? I had to jump out to another site and look up those beeps to see what numbers they corresponded to.

If that information wasn't actually provided in-game, most uncool!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:57:51 -0500

If you see a black bar across the bottom of the Pink Bedroom Escape game frame, reload your game. That bar will obscure a necessary clue!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:42:37 -0500

I love that music in Abandoned 2023—makes me think of seventies sci-fi, like this old favorite.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°379"

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:53:47 -0500

Escape or Die 4 uses an audio clue for one puzzle so you need to have your sound enabled.

- midiphile

Comment on "Nagori Sakura"

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:56:27 -0500

Much thanks for catching that, jaybo33! That "second quest" is actually quite different, a decent length in its own right, and really enjoyable! 🙂

- jF

Comment on "Nagori Sakura"

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:08:48 -0500

Thanks!

- chrpa

Comment on "Nagori Sakura"

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:39:54 -0500

Nice game, nice to hard or easy or too long or too short. There is a second game after you beat the first game, click the Japanese link (1st one I think). You seem to begin the game again but it is all new puzzles and added scenes..

- jaybo33

Comment on "Nagori Sakura"

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:18:24 -0500

I love the aesthetics of these Japanese games.

Cherry blossoms under the moonlight—gorgeous!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°377"

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:45:31 -0500

Escape Challenge 181: Room With Spatulas was somewhat confusing as to the number of spatulas. You'll actually wind up with nine spatulas for a perfect ending—eight in the count and one active in your inventory. The game only counts the non-active ones for that perfect ending.

I had to replay it several times to figure that out. 🤔

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°377"

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:16:11 -0500

Unfold Escape Room Puzzle was lovely! Great graphics and really nice music. It felt like something which could easily be ported over to game consoles for a fun adventure game. The payoff at the end of the game was well worth the effort. (But what happens if you don't collect all the hidden batteries? I did, but I'm curious if you get that extravagant ending if you don't.)

Can't say I feel love for their app store version of the game, however—the app collects all sorts of data on you. Not cool, WetBox! 🤨

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°377"

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:13:14 -0500

It might be a bug, but there's a really easy way to rack up quarters in Rainbow Escape:

Once you get the shovel, go to the second "dimension" and out to the fenced-in backyard. There, you can dig up quarters from the spot of ground to the right of the pond. Keep digging, and you can get an endless supply—much quicker than waiting two minutes for the one under the sign to reappear!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:48:47 -0500

Thank you.

- chrpa

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:59:11 -0500

Time:rooM

The only Japanese you need to know is in the introduction: 詰んでしまったら諦めて最初からやり直すことをおすすめします。

(Translation: it is suggested to restart the game if you get stuck.)

To finish the game, you basically need to do two things:

1. In the third room,

put the clock hands in the alcove.

2. In the fourth room,

put the green key in the alcove. Use that key to open the door in the next room.

- Pulsaris

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:57:49 -0500

I guess so. I felt like there was something in the game that I hadn't figured out.

- chrpa

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:05:12 -0500

Just saw your comment. Yeah, I think I get the gist of things, but I still think I might have broken the game script along the way. I got into one room where I had no access to that particular item, and thus now way to move to another room.

I do note that…

The door is clickable in one of the evening rooms. I'm laying odds you never finished the game, and getting that purplish key to that door is the way out.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:02:21 -0500

Scratch that—found out how to get to the next room:

Didn't realize the clock was clickable. I'm now thinking you'll need to put items in the "wall safe" to make them migrate from one area to another, but I don't seem to understand the machinations just yet.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:57:49 -0500

The second and the third room in Time:rooM

I put the black hands in the alcove where I had put the rabbit before and picked them up in the next room.

- chrpa

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:52:50 -0500

I don't know what it was but when I tried to do it that way I couldn't get through and the sequence always went back to the beginning. I have no idea what I was doing wrong.

- chrpa

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:44:30 -0500

Chrpa, how did you get out of the third room in Time:rooM?

In the second room, I got two pairs of clock hands—one purple, and the other black (and unusable). When placing the purple hands, I am immediately sent to room three, but all my inventory items disappear. I suspect there's more to do in the previous room, but I fear I might have effectively soft-locked the game.

🤨

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:10:44 -0500

In Time:rooM, there's a bit of Japanese in the second room you might need to know:

When using the buttons on the wall, you might hear a sort of clunk sound. The Japanese text which comes up translates roughly as, "There was a noise from the table."

Checking the table will find a pair of hands for the clock.

You might eventually stumble upon this without the Japanese, but it certainly helps! 🙂

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°376"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:50:13 -0500

Chrpa, what was your problem with the color puzzle in that second room of Isometric Escape?

It's a simple memory game, much like that old Simon game of the eighties. The computer starts by showing a color, and you have to press the same color. Then it adds a second color, and plays both. Again, you have to match it. It continues adding colors, and you have to remember and repeat the sequence as it goes.

I was quite relieved that there were only six colors in the sequence. Much more, and I'd have not been able to remember it—scribbled notes to the rescue! 😁

I had some problems with the six-digit box on the couch—clicks were a bit sluggish to respond, and I found myself missing the desired number more than once. That's why I love the new way Amajeto is doing the color/number/letter picking in their games—much easier to put in solutions that way.

- jF

Comment on "Loop"

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:28:31 -0500

Lovely game—those animals are so stinkin' cute. I was so certain there was a clue to be had from the colors on those stained glass windows, but nope… 🤷

- jF

Comment on "Loop"

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:11:56 -0500

I got stuck on the silliest thing after waking up the animal under the porch:

The animal tells you, "I kept the key." Look in the grass right below where it says that—there's a key sitting there, which is easy to overlook.

I feel sheepish. 🐑

- jF

Comment on "Room 34: Room with Lily of the Valley"

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:12:06 -0500

The first time I loaded the game, it was glitching—none of the text boxes or dialogs in the game had any text! Thankfully, a reload of the page fixed things, and it did remember my progress.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:55:26 -0500

Escape Challenge 180: Room With Dorayaki is certainly one of the weirder ones tomoLaSiDo has done. Certainly was not expecting…

…to be time-traveling on a toilet!

😄

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:24:26 -0500

Oh man, tomoLaSiDo making us hungry again… 😋

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:22:25 -0500

The three endings of Escape Of Naughty Dog are kinda anticlimactic after everything else in the game:

The endings are determined by whether Shuna-chan has urinated on the floor, defecated on the floor, or done neither. The endings are easy enough to trigger—just click the white button on the end screen to return to the game, and do an impossible action which makes Shuna-chan frustrated. I clicked on the table with the remote control and beer can until she did a "bad" action to get the two "bad" endings. For the "good" ending…

…just take her immediately to the sensor door as soon as you have the sensor key from the wood box.

Cute game—I hope we get a whole series of similar pet games from Wanco!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:15:01 -0500

Wow, the last puzzle of Escape Of Naughty Dog is tough!

Note the wood box sitting in the floor to the left of the credenza. It has five round pits for something.

As we explore, we come across curiously round dog toys.

To the right of the credenza is a blue basket of toys. After discovering how to turn it over, we find a blue elephant, a green frog, and a yellow duck.

After figuring out how to open the recycle bins in the kitchen, we find a yellow bear in the largest bin.

We can take all these toys to the wood board and drop them into the pits. But how do we find the order?

The clue we need is found when our naughty dog gets onto the kitchen counter.

Click on the green recycle bin, and our dog will climb the bins to get up there.

Translating the Japanese reveals that this is an information sheet for garbage collection/recycling in the Nishi Ward of Inuko City. The sheet shows what types of garbage are collected on each weekday. None of this information is important, but the pictures of the collected garbage is!

Let's look first at Monday, which is the Japanese character 月. The pictures of garbage collected on that day show a very distinct red package with yellow characters. Have we seen that package elsewhere?

Why, yes we have! There's a package just like it in the largest recycle bin. So what's intriguing about those bins?

The bins seem to be color-coded. From smallest to largest, the bins are green, blue, and yellow. Is there a hint there?

Of course, there's a hint! Since we found that red package in the large bin, it must be associated with the color yellow.

So Monday must be associated with yellow.

Okay, so now that we have that one, what about Tuesday (火)? We see that illustration is of PET bottles.

This one's easy. The middle bin contains a number of PET bottles. And this bin is blue. So Tuesday must correspond to blue.

So now we're to Wednesday (水). This one shows cardboard boxes, bundled newspaper, and clothing.

Hmmm—we don't seem to have anything like that in the bins. So let's skip it!

On Thursday (木), we see that they are picking up the same things as they do on Monday. Sure enough, there's that distinctive red package in the illustration. So Thursday must also be associated with yellow.

The last pickup day is Friday (金). Here, we see cans and bottles.

Another easy one! The left bin contains beer cans. (A lot of beer cans—are we really sure our doggy caused her to fall off that chair? 🤔) The left bin is green, so Friday must be associated with green.

Wow, that's a lot of things to associate! Here's what we've come up with:

     Monday = Yellow
     Tuesday = Blue
     Wednesday = (Nothing?)
     Thursday = Yellow
     Friday = Green

Now we have to make another association. We have five days' worth of (or lack of) colors. Might this information be useful somewhere else?

Hey, we have colors of yellow, blue, yellow, and green. That matches those toys we've been finding!

Something else to note—we only have found four toys. So maybe that's all we're supposed to be concerned with.

Perhaps the missing color for Wednesday means we skip that. So it could represent a yellow toy, a blue toy, no toy, a yellow toy, and a green toy.

We must be on to something here! Let's revisit that wood board with the five pits.

The red and blue dots look suspiciously like the days Sunday and Saturday on that collection/recycling sheet. So maybe the pits in between them represent the weekdays.

Now that pattern makes sense! We need to place the toys in the pits in the order we've struggled to decipher. We can start with the blue and green toys, since we know those go in the pits representing Tuesday and Friday. As the middle pit won't have a toy, it's not hard to figure out the placement of the two yellow toys.

You can easily find that placement, but it's the bear in the Monday pit, and the duck in the Thursday pit.

Finally, we open that box and get the item inside!

I'm dying of curiosity—anybody know what the red package with yellow print in the largest recycle bin was? Google Translate can't pick the characters clearly enough to make it out. ☹️

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:12:06 -0500

Escape Of Naughty Dog is adorable!

The weight atop the chair is tricky, but the clues are in plain sight.

Note the chew marks—our schnauzer has been busy! A few more chews, and that chair will surely fall.

More importantly, note the chew marks on the table legs.

The table legs give us a sequence, if you understand how to see it.

Consider each visible face of each leg to be a different number. We see that the left leg has three chew marks. The front/middle leg has a single chew mark on one face of the leg, and four marks on the other. And the right leg has two marks. This gives us the numbers 1 through 4.

These numbers give us a sequence of legs: front/middle, right, left, front/middle.

Let's have the dog chew this pattern on the chair! Chew the front/middle leg, the rightmost leg, the leftmost leg, and again the front/middle. Over it goes! Pick up the weight, and take it with you.

And as we discover from the note inside the credenza…

Our little dog is named Shuna (or using the cutesy version here, Shuna-chan). 🙂

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°375"

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:05:15 -0500

UFO Clicker is actually quite easy and quick:

Just purchase one—and only one—of each thing as soon as you can afford it. Otherwise, just wait and let the game handle things itself. With minimal interaction, I got a time around 22 minutes.

The only thing that sucks is that the game is aware of window focus, and halts operation when it doesn't have focus. So unless you know a trick or two (😉), you actually have to be watching the game for it to progress.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°374"

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:25:04 -0500

I don't believe it—there's a glitch in a tomoLaSiDo game! 😲

The "crane game" with the pink arrow buttons might stop responding if you tinker with it a bit:

I don't know what I did, but it stopped allowing me to click on the right side to access the view with the third button. I was able to complete all the other puzzles in the game, but without access to the side of the machine, I couldn't solve it. It left me one key element short and I couldn't leave with my fourteen cups.

That's a first. tomoLaSiDo games never have bugs!

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°374"

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:25:09 -0500

In Escape Game: Room With A Lamp, there's a node which is really easy to miss:

The breadbox in the kitchen has a back button over the front of it when viewed head-on. But if you back out and roughly face the kitchen trash can, you can now click on the breadbox to get a close-up view.

They should have shifted the view of the glass cabinet with the clock face up a little to clear the back button, and made the breadbox accessible/clickable from there. This was a little counterintuitive.

- jF

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°373"

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:39:01 -0500

Ohhhh, I did not think of that. So I was using it without even knowing! I just thought that was the map on it's own.

Thanks!

- stuckinabasement

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°373"

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:05:54 -0500

Well after 3 days the power went out and shut my game down. I'm not starting over. It was good while it lasted.

- 4red3s

Comment on "Weekday Escape N°373"

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:06:32 -0500

What you're missing.

for the 7 letter word

You need two things

the book

and the numbers on the morgue door

- Snarfhead