If an escape game by TomaTea is on your Christmas list, well, Feliz Navidad dear friend because Ginger Joy is here! With a gentle seasonal soundtrack and some tasteful festive decor, this is one room you might want to linger in for a while, especially if you've got a sweet tooth. Santa will understand, right? But when you are ready to get out, playing is simple. Just click around, and the tip of your cursor will glow when you can interact with something. Click the "i" icon that appears when you mouse over inventory items to view them up close. As you'd expect, there are piles of puzzles, and many of them need various codes to solve. If you see a message that says "I have no clue how to solve this!" it means you haven't seen the clue that corresponds to whatever you're looking at yet. Keep your eyes peeled and your mind sharp, because this Christmas is clever and sneaky!
If there's a better way to celebrate the holidays electronically than by indulging in some seasonal cheer by one of our favourite escape game developers, I can't think of it. TomaTea delivers a game that offers some particularly clever puzzles this time around, requiring you to look at things in different ways and really add up what you've seen, and the lovely visual style incorporates the clues you'll need to solve some puzzles in some very sneaky ways. Maybe a little too sneaky, depending on your point of view, as some clues are very very subtle or may not offer enough direction. If you're patient and perceptive, however, you'll ultimately prevail (gosh that's a lotta Ps), and Ginger Joy is every bit as fun and crafty as you expect a TomaTea to be. I'd say this game is all the present I need, but who am I kidding... I totally need a pony!
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough:
Exploration:
Face the gingerbread house
Click on candles, pick a PIECE OF PICTURE
Click on two Christmas balls hanging from under the ceiling, pick PIECE OF PICTURE
Facing the sofa
Look at the shelves: there are holes of different shapes to put something in
Click under the Christmas tree: take a PIECE OF PICTURE. There's a cage, it's locked.
Facing the door
Click on the niche on the wall. Beautiful landscape! Click on Santa. Pick a ROUND CANDY
Click on the door. Pick a PIECE OF PICTURE
Facing the windows
Click on the three socks. Pick a PIECE OF PICTURE.
Click on all of them to turn them upside down. Pick a CANDY CANE.
Look at the picture above. It says 'Christmas and New Year 2015'.
Some of the symbols are green or red.
Click on the clock.
You can move the clockhands.
Solving puzzles
First you let's solve BOX WITH RIGHT-LEFT BUTTONS
I wonder where we've seen a hint about right and left.
For example, there are two stars to the left and to the right of the gingerbread house.
Also, there's a sequence of stars somewhere in this room.
In the niche with Santa's sledge
RRLRLRL
Pick a GOLD KEY and a PIECE OF PICTURE
Open the cage with the GOLDEN KEY
Pick a SOLDIER
Take a CANDY CANE from the SOLDIER
He has three pushable buttons of different colors.
Now let's solve BOX WITH STARS AND SNOWFLAKES
Where have we seen these patterns?
On the Christmas tree
They glow in a particular sequence
Star-Snowflake-Ball. Press all the buttons on the box, following this order.
Pick a PRESENT and SMALL CANDY
By the way, we have all the PIECES OF PICTURE now. Let's complete the picture.
It's the gingerbread house.
Pick a PRESENT.
Look at the cups closely.
Their handles are numbers: 3982
Use the code on the BOX WITH NUMBERS, window view
Pick a PRESENT.
Let's look at the clock.
Now, where have we seen a hint about minutes and hours?
The picture under the clock
H and 20 are green, M and 15 are red.
20:15
Take a NOTE from the cuckoo's mouth. Click on its hat, take a LIGHTBULB.
Look at the NOTE. What could it be a hint for?
The SOLDIER's buttons are the same colors.
Press the notes from top to bottom
Green Pink Blue Pink Green Green Blue
Take the SOLDIER's head. It's a key.
Open the BOX WITH KEYHOLE
Pick a PRESENT, GREEN CANDY
Look at PRESENTS.
They are all different shape. Have we seen it somewhere?
Shelves over the sofa
Put all four in place. The 'X' wooden thing in the middle looks different now. Also the houses lit up, showing four numbers: 5692.
Let's open the BOX WITH NUMBERS, gingerbread house view.
No, 5692 doesn't work.
Remember the wooden 'X' thing?
It's actually 56x92 = 5152
Pick RED CANDY
Now, the BOX WITH UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT buttons.
Again, remember the 'X' thing above the sofa?
Count the sticks, sticking out on each side.
Up Right Right Up Down Left
Pick GINGERBREAD MAN.
Now we are ready to complete the Gingerbread House!
Look at the picture for hints.
ROUND CANDY
at the front, over the door
CANDY CANES
near the big window
SMALL CANDY
all over
RED AND GREEN CANDY
on the roof
GINGERBREAD MAN
to the left of the house
What's that thing, sticking from the chimney?
We can put a bulb in there!
Now press the ROUND CANDY
Did something change?
The big window lit up.
The last puzzle, 4x4 BOX
The hint is the window of the gingerbread house
-xx-
x--x
x--x
-xx-
Take the key
Open the door.
You're out! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Rhinoceros
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December 16, 2014 10:31 AM