“video screen” only has TWO triangles.

it was obviously an MC Hammer pencil ;-)

She’s the lady who sued McDonald’s after she spilled coffee on her lap.

When you re-draw the grids, draw only the darker-colored squares for the black areas, and only the lighter-colored squares for the white areas.
You see the numbers like this as well.

There’s a video screen on the wall. You look closely, and, instead of colored buttons there are white triangles along the bottom edge. At least that’s new. You can click the buttons, and the triangles will face up, down, right or left. I suppose there’s a way to arrange them to make something appear on the screen.

There’s also a clue book on the floor. It’s blank. So either there are no clues for this adventure, or you’ll need to find something to draw with.

You turn to the right and there’s a bed and a picture frame on the wall above the bed. I wrote that before I actually turned to the right. How, you ask? I’m clairvoyant. Or maybe I’m not and I just expect this parallel universe to have a bed and a picture frame here because I’ve seen this before.

The picture in the frame is blank. You’ll need something else to draw with. Likely not the same thing you’ll need to draw in the clue book, though, because that’s the way we roll in this universe.

You search all over the bed. Somewhere, there’s bound to be something useful. You peek in front of the pillow, finding a way to look under the pillow. There’s the Red Key. You breathe a familiar sigh of relief. Last week, the red key was on a different screen, and it took you hours to recover from the surprise. Now that the red key is back near the bed, all is right, all is calm, all is copasetic.

You look under the bed, on the right side, and you see four colored circles drawn on the frame – blue, green, yellow, red. You suppose that color order will come in handy later. You pick up an Ink Stick. Or maybe it’s a Stink Ick? It looks more like a USB thumb drive. But you suspect that if you put it on your computer, your USB port won’t work very well any more. You try drawing on the picture frame with your stick, but nothing happens.

You notice four stuffed bears on the bed. One is lying on its back, the next one is facing right, the third one is facing left and the fourth on is on its stomach. You can’t ink them, or really interact with them at all. You suspect their positioning is important, perhaps related to the white arrows on the video screen.

You turn to the left, and try moving the arrow buttons on the video screen to match the bears’ positioning: up, right, left, down. You see two 6×6 diagrams, one green, one blue. These are likely clues for the final combination lock puzzle, but it’s a little too early to figure them out.

You try the stick on the clue book, but nothing happens. So, basically, you have what’s called an ink stick, and you have two places you need to draw. But you can’t draw at all. Hmmm.

You turn to the left and see a cabinet with a sink, and a table. On top of the table, you see a grey puzzle box. You know what that means – it’s tile puzzle time!!!

Now, in the past, you’ve received clues as to what image you’re supposed to form with these tiles. But last week, there was no clue. And it’s always an easy puzzle, so you don’t really need to wait. Maybe you’ll find the clue, maybe you won’t. I don’t particularly care to wait this week, so I’ll have you solve it right now.

You form a picture of a swan with a big, short, bushy tail. Perhaps it’s sitting on a gorilla. Anyway, you open the box and take the Yellow Key.

You look under the table, on the right side, and you see a pencil. You try and grab the pencil, and a mysterious voice calls out, “you can’t touch.” Well, why not? You want that pencil. It’s probably useful for drawing where an ink stick isn’t. But, for now, there’s no touching. It must be a magic pencil with a force field. You make a mental note to find a Star Trek thingamajig useful for breaking force fields.

You look behind the cabinet on the left side and find a pair of Nippers. Looks like you’ll need to nip something.

On the bottom shelf of the table, you find Pudding. This is bizzarro pudding. I think it’s supposed to be Creme Brulee, which is French for “burnt cream,” for those of you keeping score. It was allegedly invented in the 17th Century, and is a rich and delicious combination of caramel and vanilla.

In this case, though… no, not tempting or delicious in the slightest. It has the consistency of a ham hock and the carmelized sugar on top appears more like a bicycle tire. Whoever constructed this atrocity has no respect for the culinary arts. The cream base shakes like week-old jello, and an odor rather like warm sweat socks assaults your senses. You are not eating this pudding.

You turn to the left and see a row of drawers with colored locks next to a bureau. You look behind the cabinets on the right side and find the Blue Key.

You look under the bureau and see a pen of some sort attached to the bottom of the furniture. You use the Nippers to take a Brush. You try dipping the brush in the stink ick, then the pudding, but nothing happens. You take a second Pudding from the top of the cabinets.

So it’s time to start opening drawers…

The Blue Key gives you your third Pudding and a Cup. The Yellow Key reveals a fourth Pudding and a black block. You try placing your brush, your pudding and your cup in the black block, but nothing happens. The Red Key unveils a fifth jiggly, smelly, horrifying Pudding, and a Stick.

You move to the right. You place the Cup in the sink, and suddenly the sink turns on, filling the cup. Odd. The sink wasn’t working before. This is obviously a magic cup.

You use the Stick under the table to take the magic Pencil.

You move back to the left, open the yellow drawer, and pour the water from the Cup on the black block. It forms a puddle. You then put the Ink Stick in the puddle and the puddle turns black. Finally, you put the Brush in the black puddle, and it appears that the brush now contains black ink.

Time to go back to the left and look at the picture frame again. You can’t draw on it with the pencil. Maybe you can with the Brush. Somehow, you draw a checkerboard with a 3×3 grid. This must be a clue for reading the blue and green designs on the video screen.

You go to the left and start drawing in the book with your Pencil. You create a black drawing of a vase or a face of some sort, along with arrows pointing right, down, down and left.

You go back to the video screen, input the new arrow codes, and see red and yellow diagrams.

What do you do to determine the combination, however? The 3×3 checkerboard indicates you’ll be dividing the diagrams somehow, but nothing is readily apparent.

You realize that the 6×6 grids can be divided into 9 2×2 mini-grids. And that would give you the same type of pattern as the 3×3 checkerboard you saw on the picture frame.

You need pen and paper for this, but what you need to do is re-draw each of these grids. Each square of the 3×3 checkerboard corresponds to a 2×2 mini-grid. When redrawing, draw only the lighter-colored squares when re-drawing the black areas of the checkerboard. But for the white areas, draw only the darker-colored squares of the grid.

If you do this correctly, you will draw numbers on the grid. The blue is the easiest. This is the number 1, consisting of only five grid pieces on the right side of the grid.

You draw a 2 on the green grid. You form a 7 on the yellow grid and a 9 on the red grid. Remembering the colored circles under the bed, blue, green, yellow, red, you come up with the combination: 1279.

You try the combination on the door lock and you’re soon out of the room. You find you have a need to hunt down whomever concocted the jiggly, rancid pudding, however, so you can express your… umm… appreciation. In the form of pudding in the face.

1. Make a 6X6 pattern.
2. Change every second line to bold – you get a 3X3 pattern of large squares, each made up of 2X2 small squares.
3. Take one of the patterns, say the red one, and copy all the large squares corresponding to the black squares in the pattern above the bed.
4. For the other large squares (those corresponding to the white squares), just reverse the colors, that is, a small dark square remains white, and a small light square becomes black.

teddy bears

Note the black and white pattern on the board – it’s 3X3. Imagine that the white squares have an “R” (for reverse) written in them. Now look at the red pattern – it’s 6X6, which you can divide with bold lines to make a pattern of 3×3 large squares, each made up of 2X2 small squares. Now, change the 4 large squares corresponding to the “R” squares so that red is interchanged with black, and leave the other squares unchanged. You get 9. The yellow pattern gives you 7, the blue gives you 1 (white on blue background), and the green gives you 2 (white on green background).

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