Help me escape

January 6, 2006 7:33 AM

Flash Friday. Several little amusements which are short enough not to wreck your whole work day (sorry about that). Help the boy, Mr. Zhong and the mouse in their endeavors.
posted by caddis (28 comments total)

I don't get the interface for the one with the mouse--all I can do it get him to say "I SHOULD FIRST LEAVE HERE."

What can I do, other than access the mouse's inventory? Can I make the mouse move? Are there things onscreen besides the mouse that I can interface with?
posted by Prospero at 7:50 AM on January 6, 2006

Try picking up a surrounding object.
posted by caddis at 8:00 AM on January 6, 2006

"As for the cooperation of the cartoon animation and the game authorize of contact"
All your base are belong to us!!
posted by nkyad at 8:09 AM on January 6, 2006

Just another hint you will need in the mouse puzzle: you can combine objects in the inventory by dragging them over each other (if the combination is valid, it holds, else the object you're dragging return to its original position).
posted by nkyad at 8:42 AM on January 6, 2006

I took the mouse's advice to heart and left the page without accomplishing a damned thing.
posted by Busithoth at 9:59 AM on January 6, 2006

yeah, these are tough... i give up.
posted by cusack at 10:03 AM on January 6, 2006

I can whack the gorilla with the dead alien, but that's about it. I can't get anything to the mouse at all.
posted by yhbc at 10:15 AM on January 6, 2006

a hint for yhbc
check out that thing that's shocking the gorilla ...
posted by forforf at 10:35 AM on January 6, 2006

Once you figure out how to open the mouse cage you will have to use the objects to get objects and eventually to get those nuts in a jar. That one was tough, but if I could figure it out, anyone reasonably adept at this type of puzzle could.
posted by caddis at 10:59 AM on January 6, 2006

Woot! I got through all three of the games with the boy. Damn, these are hard. I gave up on the mouse one after I got the balloon to tilt the bookcase. In that game, there's no clue (i.e., hand-pointer) showing you what or where you need to click.
posted by Gator at 11:02 AM on January 6, 2006

Aha, I finally got the mousie one too.

Nice post, very diverting!
posted by Gator at 11:21 AM on January 6, 2006

Felt badly about beating the gorilla so moved onto the mouse game. But I wanted to bash the mouse over the head with the dead alien every time it said, "I did not understand" when I did something wrong.

ps: for those stuck on the mouse puzzle, find the paper clip to get the ball rolling.
posted by squeak at 11:21 AM on January 6, 2006

Okay, I got the mouse the damn nuts.

I still can't do anything except whack the gorilla with the dead alien, though.
posted by yhbc at 12:11 PM on January 6, 2006

yhbc, you can do something else with the dead alien. You'll need to mess with the wiring again...
posted by Gator at 12:17 PM on January 6, 2006

key to the mouse is combining objects within his stash of stuff. drag them over each other.
posted by chr1sb0y at 12:35 PM on January 6, 2006

doh...
posted by chr1sb0y at 12:58 PM on January 6, 2006

Mousey-mousey like'm his self the candy.
posted by The Monkey at 1:47 PM on January 6, 2006

i beat the gorilla with a fried frog thingy. i drew on my face and opened a door. i turned into a lizard, a frog, a squiddish thingy, and a fish. and maybe a bumblebee. i don't remember.

i really feel like i've accomplished a lot in the last (gulp) half hour.

but now i'm standing in the middle of a room holding a goldfish bowl, staring at the screen like oliver twist ("please sir, can i have some more?") and shrugging my shoulders whenever that stupid guy moving the mouse around clicks on things.

little help?
posted by macmac at 2:37 PM on January 6, 2006

"I don't understand! I don't understand! I don't understand!"

Shut up shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP!
posted by mikrophon at 2:38 PM on January 6, 2006

macmac, you'll notice there's some broken glass on the floor. Perhaps your goldfish bowl is meant to replace one that was broken...
posted by Gator at 2:42 PM on January 6, 2006

and here i thought i'd clicked everywhere there was to click. thanks for the assist gator.
posted by macmac at 2:50 PM on January 6, 2006

Can't get that damn thing to stop scratching itself....
posted by Dagobert at 11:29 PM on January 6, 2006

d'oh, just got it.
posted by Dagobert at 11:30 PM on January 6, 2006

Finished them. They kick ass.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:09 AM on January 7, 2006

Damn, I spent some serious time on some of these except for the first one with the boy and the silly ghost ones. However, I just watched a 12 year old boy zip through the three of the boy in less than five minutes total. He had the mouse out of the cage in the first 30 seconds, but it did take him more than fifteen minutes for the whole thing.
posted by caddis at 10:29 AM on January 7, 2006

aargh. I've got the glove on the string, the inflated balloon holding it all taut...but the mouse doesn't seem to want to do anything further. The other ones were peanuts compared to this...
posted by BT at 8:08 PM on January 9, 2006

If you already blew up the balloon with the tube from the pen, then there's still another part of the pen you haven't used yet.
posted by yhbc at 8:14 PM on January 9, 2006

Ah, yes, the...which makes the...and then...

Thanks, commish. Now I can go to sleep without dreaming of a poor starving mouse who just doesn't understand.
posted by BT at 8:53 PM on January 10, 2006