50 Comments to Phantom Mansion – 7: The Violet Vault

1. Reka says:

   April 4, 2008 at 3:33 pm

   Whee! Ghosts! :)

2. SLK says:

   April 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm

   Has anyone been able to get “Plan Ahead”? I feel like I’ve tried every way possible, I think my head’s going to explode.

3. jackivee says:

   April 4, 2008 at 8:05 pm

   Any ideas about The Bomb?

4. jackivee says:

   April 4, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   Nevermind…got it.

5. jackivee says:

   April 4, 2008 at 9:32 pm

   Follow My Leade, anyone?

6. jackivee says:

   April 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm

   Nevermind, got it…I never believed in the power of posting before. That was the toughest level, so far.

7. Sherman81 says:

   April 4, 2008 at 9:54 pm

   I’m trying to figure out Ghostal(only the key part and where to put the crates, i’ve managed to get it down to one crate) and Plan Ahead(i’ve gotten it down to everything but i’m trying to figure out how to get the last soul). The rest of them i have gone ahead and done, those are the only 2 left to do.

8. Sherman81 says:

   April 4, 2008 at 9:58 pm

   Ghost to Ghost and The Cross was tricky, but i solved it. Also if done right, on Ghost in the Machine, you see that switch at the bottom left of the screen. Its not needed to complete the level.

9. Jan says:

   April 5, 2008 at 8:52 am

   I’m quite stuck on Ghost in the machine, the 2nd last level. Could anyone give me a hint?

   Here is what I’ve done so far:
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   In the first room I got the box on the platform where you start and used it to let the ghost push the button in that room (I didn’t get the soul in there btw, I couldn’t see how).
   Then I guided the ghost inside the second room and took the box with me, which I moved up to the top of the room.
   The next thing I did was making a ‘bridge’ by pushing the top right box in that room into the box and after that I pushed the box that I got from the other room on top of that one. This made the ghost push the button.
   Then I guided the ghost into the next room on the left (top left room), steared it so that it pushed the button over there and grabbed the key there.
   Next I guided the ghost to the right, the long part of that room and then it walked trough the wall (how???) into the hallway where the two skeletons are.
   I also used the three boxes I had to make a bridge to the door at the end.

   Now I don’t know how to get the ghost into the room with the zombies to let it push the last button. Hope someone can help me.

10. Jan says:

    April 5, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Sorry, I made some typos up there, here to clarify:
    …I got the box ONTO the platform…
    …that room into the VOID and after that…

11. Pa says:

    April 5, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    I did have troubles too!!! But I enjoyed the game so far it has been the easiest of the series!!!!
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    That level was very hard!!! What you have to do is once you placed the 3 boxes to make the exit go all the way down were the skeleton are, there is another box try to put it in the middle of the zombies let him push but you have to be fast and go straight next to the middle cracked tile (on your left), wait for the zombie to push it for you and as soon is in the middle (cracked tile) put in position and you will be able to collect the last soul. I hope it helps :)

12. Sherman81 says:

    April 5, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    on Ghost in the machine, you don’t really need the ghost in the right area, once you have the switch pressed at the top left via the ghost, take the 3 boxes and pushed them into the blank area right below the exit, once you’ve done that and have opened the circle door, the area where the 2 skeltons are at, avoide the skeletons and get the souls and the triangle key at the bottom. Now push the crate down the bottom and take it with you and push it to the left so that the grate can get pushed upward so you can get the next to the last soul. Now use the triangle key and go up all the way, step all the way to the left, then step to the right and take the exit. if done right, you don’t really need the very last switch thats at the very bottom left. let me know if you solve Ghost to Ghost and Plan Ahead.

13. Jan says:

    April 6, 2008 at 3:47 am

    Thnx for the help guys! But I allready beat it now. BTW, I didn’t have to use the cross key or the switch on the bottum left. I do wonder how you’re supposed to complete it when you DO use them.

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    Because if you grab that cross key and then go back to the bottum room to unlock the door for your ghost that means you crack your last tiles and can’t get to the exit door anymore. Unless that is what that bottum left switch is for that is…

    I cleared all levels now, the last one is really easy if you ask me.

    Plan ahead:
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    At the start, go trough the left door into the room below, and walk untill you are BELOW the box, then push it up all the way untill it is in front of the locked door. Then walk south untill you’re at the door and enter the room with the ghost and the two boxes in it. Make the ghost go into the room on your left by pushing one of the crates against the right wall and let him push the switch in the other room. This will make the key appear in the bottum right room.
    Now grab the other box and push it trough the door into the upper room, all the way up, go right once, and down once, grabbing the soul. Then push the box into the hole a couple of tiles to the left and step on the switch, this spawns a box in the top left room.
    Open the door and walk trough it, freeing the box from the wall and use either of the boxes to both fill up the gaps in front of the left door in the bottum left room (so you can grab the soul) and in front of the exit door.
    Level complete!

14. Sherman81 says:

    April 6, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    You know the puzzle that has a circle key door that you don’t really have to use, and if you do you get chased by 3 ghosts. they should had added a soul or 2 to give you a reason for going into that area, or else its pointless.

15. Sherman81 says:

    April 6, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    thanks for your help on Plan Ahead. after i shutdown my computer i started thinking about how to beat Plan Ahead, and then i see where i kept going wrong.

16. Sherman81 says:

    April 6, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Can someone do me a big favor. I have complete all doors, but the thing like frozed up on me or something, so i thought refreshing my window would help, so when i got back on it, all the doors turned back to skulls even though they were checks.

    Jan, can you do this for me since you already finished the game. and i hope you don’t have to do all the doors over again to show me. about all i’m interested in is seeing what the Shrine looks like, so i don’t have to do all the doors over again, becuase thats a waste of my time. i’ve already did all the puzzles by the 2 i had trouble with twice, and on the second one is when i beat the game, and i don’t want to have to go through it a 3rd time.

    If its too large, just send me enough so that i know what it looks like, that or use Paint to put the entire thing together, and then show it to me all at once. If you use MWSnap3, Paint, and Photobucket, it should be easy.

17. Jan says:

    April 7, 2008 at 2:43 am

    I had this problem too, this problem is that you probably loaded the game to fast. What you need to do is load the game again and wait until you get the screen you allways get at the start explaining the basic game, with the boxes, switches and zombies and stuff. There you should NOT click continue but just wait a minute or 2, this will give the server some time to upload your progress et voila! all doors open!

18. Sherman81 says:

    April 7, 2008 at 4:33 am

    That didn’t work, so i was forced to do it all over again. as small as the area was, a picture could had done. Anyway, this time i was able to finish the last door, then one with the mask.

19. Emma says:

    April 7, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    how do u do remote control im stuck lol x x

20. Reka says:

    April 8, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    The game keeps losing my progress if I exit and come back to it. None of the previous episodes had this problem. Is it something to do with their new advertisement engine?

21. Reka says:

    April 8, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Answering myself, yes, it does seem to have to do with the “Gamejacket” ad engine, although they haven’t actually come out and said that. Gimme5Games has a page with instructions for getting your saved game back:
    http://www.gimme5games.com/index.jsp?id=pm_help
    It wasn’t entirely accurate for me, which I guess is because I’m playing here, not via gimme5games, but I was able to use this general principle to find where my almost-finished game was hiding. (Search the randomly-named folder they describe in that page for “violet”, it should get you what you want.)

22. ek says:

    April 8, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    any ideas for ghost in the machine, tried everything

23. Tirex says:

    April 9, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    please, help me for spirit guide

24. Mike says:

    April 11, 2008 at 5:01 am

    I’m totally stuck on bomb

25. andy says:

    April 11, 2008 at 9:04 am

    i need help with ghost in a machine as anyone beat it and can tell me how

26. Tirex says:

    April 12, 2008 at 7:36 am

    i need help for ghost to ghost

27. Reka says:

    April 12, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Tirex, I finally just got Ghost to Ghost (only to join the ranks of those who are completely stuck on Ghost in the Machine).
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    Use the left block to get the ghost to come downstairs. (Push it up the stairs against the wall, then to the left one space.) Push the other block all the way to the right, into the corner. After the ghost has come down, push the upper block down the stairs, then keep pushing it until it’s against the railing. This’ll get the ghost to hit that switch in the left corner, opening a gap in the railing just to the right of where your block is. Push the block two spaces to the right, so the ghost will come down the stairs after you.

    Go down the stairs and collect the soul, then go down below to where you see a key and two souls. Collect the soul you can get to without breaking the floor, then wait for the ghost to first hit that switch next to the stairs to open the railing, then to come around and hit the three switches in succession.

    This is the tricky part: you need to time your movements to lag just a fraction of a second behind the ghost, so you can get across the disappearing floor. (It seems you can continue to stand on floor after it has disappeared, at least for a while; what you can’t do is step on floor just as it disappears. So timing is everything.) You’ll need to do this three times, so you’ll get plenty of practice. When you get across the first time, don’t touch the block; just go up, across from the key and soul, and walk across when the ghost is hitting the upper three switches. Get the soul and the key, then dance across one more time on the bottom. Whew.

    Open the door, then wait until the zombies are off to the right and get the two souls on the left. Don’t break any floor yet! Take refuge in the doorway until the zombies are back. Try to do this next step when the ghost and the zombies are “out of phase”, i.e the ghost is far away. When the zombies are on the left of the cracked floor, walk across the floor to trap the zombies out of your way. Warning: there’s a bug with the top zombie, so if you time it too close, he’ll walk across the void. (If this happens, you have to start over, because zombies can push wooden blocks.) If necessary, trap the zombies in two parts.

    Once you have the zombies trapped, you need to use the ghost to hit all the switches on the bottom right. Push the block (from below the doorway – avoid that other ghost, it’d be a shame to die now) all the way up, then almost all the way right. After the zombie has gone down to hit the rightmost switch, push the block left one space. Repeat for all the switches.

    You should now be able to get the souls and the key on the top right. Use the key to open the door. Get the last soul and push the block that’s already in the room into the void on the top left. Now go get the other block and use it to complete the path to the exit. (Don’t try to save steps by pushing the second block into the room before you’ve started your path – you’ll end up with two blocks next to each other against the wall. Yes, been there, done that.)

28. Jan says:

    April 14, 2008 at 3:24 am

    Ghost in the machine:
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    In the first room get the box onto the platform where you start and used it to let the ghost push the button in that room (you can’t get the soul in there btw, you’ll get a chance to grab it in the end).
    Then guide the ghost inside the second room and took the box with you, and push it allthey way up to the top of that room. (Note: this will make your ghost ‘bounce’ of that box and make a smaller circle.
    The next thing you do is was making a ‘bridge’ by pushing the top right box in that room into the void and after that push the box on the left, that you got from the first room on top of that one. This makes the ghost push the button in that room a filles up the void in there.
    Then you guide the ghost into the next room on the left (top left room) and stear it so that it pushes the button over there, filling up that room. then you can grabe the key and leave the ghost be, you don’t need him anymore.
    Next thing you do is simply pushing the 3 boxes from that room all the way until they fill up the void in front of the exit.
    Then you go to the far right room with the two patrolling skeletons, you grab the key and move the box in that room into the room below with the 3 patrolling zombies.
    Use this box to fill the void in between this platform and the soul in the first room and grab it. (Note: as said above you do NOT need to psuh the lower left button this way)
    Now you can step trough the locked door you grabbed the key for earlier and go to the exit, grab the last soul just next to it and voila! you’re done!

29. Osandee says:

    April 17, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    I stuck on “The Bomb”. How are you suppose to manipulate the boxes or the ghost to get to Hector to the switch. Can someone please help me out?

30. Reka says:

    April 20, 2008 at 12:05 am

    Gah. Looks like they got rid of the gamejacket ad engine, which is good, but thereby lost your saved game again, which is bad, but you can rescue your saved game by moving the .sol file, which is… not good, per se, because it’s a pain in the a**, but at least I didn’t have to repeat Ghost to Ghost. Which is good.

    Savvy? :)

31. Irid says:

    April 20, 2008 at 6:00 am

    How do you solve ‘Remote control’?

32. Irid says:

    April 20, 2008 at 6:03 am

    See, I *knew* that as soon as I posted that, I was gonna find the answer… :P

33. Sine says:

    April 22, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Really stuck on the bomb – can anyone please help!!!???

34. Danielle says:

    April 23, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    someone help i can’t get the remote control or the follow my lead?

35. an says:

    April 24, 2008 at 6:19 am

    I was stuck on the bomb too.

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    Move the right box to the top and you’ll know what to do after that

36. an says:

    April 24, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Remote control

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    Push 1 box all the way to the bottom wall, put it 3 space from the left.
    You can use the other box to make the ghost turn left half way without the box it should go over the top switch

37. Beer says:

    April 26, 2008 at 11:17 am

    More Ghost in the machine:

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    I didn’t understand how to get the box in the first chamber on to the platform without cracking the complete floor.
    Don’t worry if you do. Jus remember to NOT crack the right part of the floor in the room with the skellettons, so you’ll be able to get back to the door

    Have fun. I just played it all in a few hours!!

38. Sara says:

    May 5, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Ghostal anyone? Need help with the boxes to get to the exit!

39. Danielle says:

    May 8, 2008 at 10:20 am

    I’m Stuck on the bomb ? help please

40. Danielle says:

    May 8, 2008 at 11:38 am

    ok i got the bomb but im still stuck on follow my lead?

41. an says:

    May 9, 2008 at 8:09 am

    I’m still stuck on plan ahead, even with the walkthrough I can’t figure it out!

42. an says:

    May 9, 2008 at 8:16 am

    never mind got it

43. Ritchie says:

    May 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    I need help on Take me to ur leader..

44. Ritchie says:

    May 11, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    I MEAN follow my leader..Ive got all skulls but cant get to the door..

45. ceres says:

    May 25, 2008 at 4:05 am

    i need help in spirit guide?anyone help pls?

46. ceres says:

    May 25, 2008 at 4:22 am

    got it.never mind

47. Pauline says:

    May 29, 2008 at 7:24 am

    can anyone help, just cant get past the cross can anyone help.

48. carrich says:

    August 11, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Just finished Ghostal — You have to get 2 boxes through the door below the exit door. all the rest will be shoved across the top. when you bring out the boxes from the top don’t shove them all the way against the bottom rail, just out the door and exit another door to shove them to the exit door. hope this helps

49. Cary says:

    February 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    Stuck on the bomb

50. mary says:

    October 6, 2009 at 9:25 am

    hello everyone i want to know what is the solution to overcome te ninth gate of phantom mansion 7???help me

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