CASE INDEX

Attic: Ball Sorting Chest

Attic crates behind the tied-back curtain with the small ball-sorting chest on top
The ball-sorting chest on the attic crates.

The attic has a piano, a grandfather clock, a coat rack under the window, a checked box on a barrel, and a curtain on the right hiding some crates.

  1. Use the Bungee cord on the curtain on the right to tie it back (Tie cord). Take the number cards from the open crate.
  2. Zoom in on the small chest on the crates ("Move the balls on the line to sort them out by color."). The balls sit on an outer ring and a straight centre line, and the round arrow button on the left resets them to the start. There are ten balls: two gold, four bronze and four silver. The goal is both gold balls on the centre line, the four bronze balls on the left half of the ring and the four silver balls on the right half.
  3. Work one colour at a time: first get the two gold balls into the two centre-line slots, then move the ring balls until the bronze ones gather on the left and the silver ones on the right. When the colours are sorted, the chest opens. Take the clock hands (Arrows).
    Ball chest with gold balls on the centre line, bronze on the left and silver on the right
    The sorted arrangement that opens the chest.
PUZZLE

Attic: Coat Rack Clues and Equation Box

Attic box with number and sign cards for an equation
The equation box among the attic crates.

The coat rack hides two clues, and a box among the crates needs the number cards.

  1. Zoom in on the coat rack and lift the straw hat. Underneath, a tag reads 17:45, and five runes are carved down the rack's pole. Note both; they are clues for the clock and the rune lock.
    Coat rack with the straw hat lifted, the 17:45 tag circled and the five runes on the pole outlined
    Under the hat: the 17:45 tag and the five runes.
    Close-up of the coat-rack pole showing five carved runes from top to bottom beside the 17:45 tag
    Detail: the five runes on the pole, top to bottom.
  2. Open the box on the crates and add the number cards. The 4 and = cards are already in the bottom row. Drag the other cards after them so the row reads 4 = 7 - 2 + 1. The / and x cards are not needed. Worked left to right this is not correct arithmetic (7 - 2 + 1 makes 6); the game evidently reads everything after the minus sign as one group, 7 - (2 + 1) = 4, so 4 = 7 - 1 + 2 is accepted as well. The box opens as soon as the last card is in place. Take the Flower (a red rose).CODE4=7-2+1
PUZZLE

Attic: Grandfather Clock

Grandfather clock in the attic with boy and girl figures on top
The attic grandfather clock.

Two small figures, a boy and a girl, stand on top of the grandfather clock.

  1. Attach the clock hands and set the clock to 5:45, the 17:45 from the hat tag. The boy moves towards the girl. Give the Flower to the boy: he kneels and offers it, and a chess Rook rises. Take the Rook.CODE5:45
PUZZLE

Attic: Rune Lock

Rune wheel with nine segments, none pressed yet, and the hint "Click on the correct signs to open the lock."
The rune wheel before any rune is pressed.

The checked box on the barrel has a rook-shaped slot and a round lock divided into nine rune segments.

  1. Place the Rook in the slot on top of the box. On the rune wheel, press exactly the five runes carved on the coat-rack pole; each one darkens when pressed. Leave the other four alone. The box opens; take the Queen.
    Rune wheel with the five pressed dark segments circled
    The five runes from the coat rack, pressed.
PUZZLE

Bedroom: Eight Queens Chessboard

Chessboard top of the bedroom bedside table with queens beside it
The eight queens chessboard.

The chessboard top of the bedside table is the classic eight queens problem: place eight queens so that none can attack another.

  1. Go back down to the bedroom and use the Queen on the chessboard. Place eight queens so that no two share a row, column or diagonal. One working answer, giving the column counted from the left for each row from top to bottom: 2, 8, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7, 4. Take the Piano key from the compartment that opens.
PUZZLE

Attic: Piano Keys

Attic piano keyboard with a jumbled black swirl pattern
The jumbled piano keys in the attic.

The attic piano has a gap in its keyboard, and the keys' black swirl decoration is jumbled ("Are these keys confused?").

  1. Climb back to the attic and put the Piano key in the gap. Swap keys two at a time until the black swirl pattern runs unbroken across the keyboard. Line up the ends of each swirl with its neighbours, working from one end of the keyboard to the other. When the pattern is complete, take the Key card and the Dove head from the piano.
    Piano keyboard with the black swirl pattern running unbroken across the keys
    The restored swirl pattern.

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