4 Comments to Sanpoman – Kuwagata Room

1. andra says:

   April 22, 2012 at 10:28 am

   Nice escape game, not too hard, and no Japanese whatsoever needed to finish it.
   The only possible problem which shortly arose was finding leg instructions: Show

   Just click the window and then click under it. A panel will appear. Use the screwdriver on that panel and press the button – Viola, instructions.

   • dg says:

     April 26, 2012 at 12:56 am

     Thanks andra – that’s all I needed.

2. WonderWorm says:

   April 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

   Found a few objects, but totally lost on all the clues.

3. Reka says:

   April 23, 2012 at 6:44 pm

   Walkthrough

   Show

   [I clicked the left button to start. No idea what the other button does.]

   Examine that… bug in the corner. Looks like we need a key card.

   Turn right and get a closer look at the sink. The faucet is missing its handle, and the cabinet underneath needs a code involving card suits.

   Look at the round, uh, thing on the wall. Examine the wall underneath it: looks like we need something with which to pry that panel open.

   Get a closer look at the dais. Open the drawers on the left side and get (1) a blue teapot, and (2) a wrapped box. Look at the box and notice that someone has done a rather thorough job of knotting the string; there’s no untying this, you’ll need to cut it off.

   Examine the right side of the dais; looks like we’ll need a screwdriver.

   Look underneath each cushion. Notice that one of them can be turned over (click *underneath* it, not the cushion itself) to reveal a card suit; make note of it. Another cushion has a blank piece of paper underneath it.

   Examine the table. Note the symbols on the cup and plate, and collect the green teapot. Look closer at the teapot and note the symbol on it.

   Turn right and look at the shelf. On the bottom is a device that could be a scale, but it doesn’t have a number readout, so it might be a hot plate instead.

   The middle shelf has another bug-like critter. This one makes cutting noises when you click it. Hmm, that wrapped package needs a cutting implement of some sort… aha, a screwdriver!

   Collect the box from the highest shelf you can reach. There’s something on the very top, too, but you can’t reach that without a step stool of some sort.

   Get a closer look at the box and notice the strange arrangement of buttons, as well as the even stranger assortment of symbols, which all have an oval in the middle. Turn back to the dais a minute, and look at the cushions. From this perspective, they look kind of oval, don’t they? And there are lines behind/underneath them.

   That gets you a… flower? Nope, it’s a faucet knob. Hold on a sec, there’s a symbol in the middle. Make a note of it, and then you might as well go put it where it belongs.

   Since we now have a working faucet, fill the blue teapot with water.

   Also, since we’re in the vicinity, might as well try the screwdriver on that panel underneath the round thing on the wall. Oooh, a big shiny red button, just calling out to be pressed! Well, that was anticlimactic. Arrows? Dunno what to do with them yet.

   Now, where else did we need a screwdriver? Ah, yes, the right side of the dais. OK, so it’s not a step stool in the strictest sense, but it’ll serve: get the hexagonal box from the top of the shelf. (Close the drawer/stair thingy so the game will let you move on.)

   Examine the hexagonal box. Get some green stuff from it (must be tea, but it appears very, uh, grass-like), and notice the symbol inside the lid.

   Put the tea into the green teapot. Put the blue teapot on the hot plate and press the button. Go twiddle your thumbs (aka take a turn or two around the room) until the light turns green, then collect the pot, and brew some tea.

   Pour the tea into the cup on the table. That thing sure is steaming, isn’t it? We don’t have any sealed envelopes to open surreptitiously, do we? No, but we do have an annoyingly blank and useless piece of paper. Yerp, that worked: and that looks like it might be the code to the cabinet under the sink.

   Use the code to open the cabinet and get the keycard. You remember where to use it, don’t you?

   OK, so the bug is now activated. Hmm, the arrows are starting to make more sense, but just putting them in straight isn’t working. Maybe those horn-like things were significant? Try it upside-down.

   Et voila, a key! I sure hope you know what to do with it.

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