Sunday, December 26, 2010

Antrim Escape 2: Team Tactics - Complete Walkthrough

Finally I beat it!! The sequel to Antrim Escape is amazing. I just finished writing up the walkthrough. Here it is guys.

The walkthrough is sorted into chapters and within each chapter are individual puzzles. I will refer to the conservatory walls using North/East/South/West as illustrated in the pictures below:



Chapter 1



Item Pickup:
- water bucket behind plants in North wall
- green gem behind water bucket in North wall
- ancient tablet behind water fountain in close up fountain view
- trowel behind flower pots in East wall
- axe head hidden among vegetation in North wall
- brown snake inside vegetation of South wall corner



Tilting Vent with Numbers:
Locate the left vent on the West wall and enter the tilt-able vent view. You will notice there are glowing lines that are colored white, blue, green and yellow.  Tilt your iPhone around trying to form a number with each color. Ignore the white lines.  Now enter these 3 numbers in the vents with blue/green/yellow buttons behind the fountain to open that vent and retrieve an Egyptian plate.


Candy Box Puzzle:
Locate a trowel laying on the floor in the East wall behind the flower pots. Now click on those pots and then use the trowel in inventory to dig on the mud. You will see a candy box.

After retrieving the candy box, double tap on it in inventory to open the detail view.  This is where it gets tricky: use the trowel on the candy box by first single tapping to highlight trowel and then tap on the detail view of candy box. Tricky because I didn’t think they will reuse the trowel again on the same object!! Finally, after candy box is opened, shake your iPhone to get the candies inside.

Small Candy Fountain:
Go to the North wall and tap on the small candy fountain. Now in the bigger view of it, place the 4 candies on the fountain: each candy has a shape where you’ll need to match it on each platform of the fountain.  If you done it correctly, a box of matches falls out.




Two more things to do here for this puzzle!! Tricky eh?!! First, make note of the candy color on each platform on the small fountain.  Top and middle platform should have just 1 candy each, but the base platform has 2 candies. You need to know some basic color mixing here (Google is your friend). Combine the two colors to get the result color. For instance, yellow + blue = green; red + blue = purple; and yellow + red = orange.  Take note of the 3 colors because they will be used in the next puzzle.



Water Fountain Puzzle:
Enter the water fountain view in West wall.  You will notice there is a color circle on each platform of the fountain. You've guessed it: the candy colors we took note of earlier.  If you enter it correctly, water will flow. Fill the bucket with water.


Music Tube Puzzle:
Enter the music tube view in North wall.  You will notice there's a small wooden piece in the centre tube. You cannot pick it up but just fill it with water using the water bucket to make it float to the top.

Pick up the wooden up and open it's detail view. There should be 5 numbers.  This is the water level you each fill each tube. For example, if the numbers are 4 3 6 5 7 then fill the water tube from left to right like so:



Now a red button will appear. Press it to play the tune. This can be hard for people that don't know music at all.  So here are the notes: 4 7 4 7 4 3 5 7 (these notes are NOT randomized).  For example, the first note is a 4, so you tap the water tube with water level 4; 2nd note is a 5 so tap the water tube with water level 5; and so on…
Playing it correctly will give you another Egyptian plate.




TicTacToe Puzzle:
Okay this puzzle is the hardest and cleverest of them all in the conservatory!! OMG it took me so long to get it.

First you have to locate the TicTacToe markings behind the water fountain. To do that, enter the fountain view. Now tilt your iPhone to the left to reveal some tiny markings. Tap on it to bring up the TicTacToe markings view. Record it.


Now go bring up the flower pot view in East wall. In the flower pot with yellow flowers and green grass, there is a empty dug hole on lower right corner in mine. I am not sure if this is randomized but that dug hole should be a flower because there are 3 flowers and 5 grasses, so it makes sense in a TicTacToe  game that there are 4flowers and 5grasses.

Anyways, you will need to decipher the TicTacToe-FlowerPlant sequence. Each markings you recorded earlier represents a square in the TicTacToe game. 

Finally, enter the vent scene BEHIND the water fountain and enter the sequence in accordance to the flower/grass button to retrieve the final Egyptian plate.




Egyptian Circles & Interlocking Key:
At the point you should have 3 Egyptian plates. Place them in the slots on the left side counter in the East wall.  A yellow key will drop out. This is the interlocking door key. Inserting the key into either slot will open the interlocking door.  Chapter 1 ends…





Chapter 2


Item Pickup:
- soap located in left side balcony
- blue paper under the chair in left side balcony
- labyrinth game on table in right side balcony
- axe handle on wall in right side balcony

This chapters begins with you playing as Ryan in the balcony. But note that you can switch back to Emma in the conservatory.  This is important because this is where the game gets interesting!! We need to pass items back and forth underneath the metal door.  Also, I think this is the balcony where Ryan climbed down at the end of Antrim Escape 1.  Very cool to pick up the story from here!! Good job GameHive.






Magnifying Glass Passing Puzzle:

Switch back to Emma and pick up the magnifying glass in the center top of the red metal door. Now tap beneath the door where there’s a white light and place the magnifying glass there.  Switch to Ryan and tap his metal door (blue in color) to pick up the magnifying glass.

Now in the right balcony wall you will see some very tiny symbols if you zoom in.  Use the magnifying glass to bring up the view. 


First line: red door with 28 gives you a ball
Second line: ball + labyrinth game gives you a key




Balcony Blue Metal Door Puzzle:
You probably know that on the balcony metal door there are squares that you can press and depress.  And this will take effect on the red metal door on Emma’s side. A puzzle is lurking around!!  So we got the hint earlier that Red Door with 28 gives you a ball. Here’s the method:

You will have to make a “28” on the red door in the conservatory. But you will have to enter the 28 as a mirrored 28 on Ryan’s blue metal door. Like so:

A metal ball drops out on Emma’s side. Pass it to Ryan and have him place it in the labyrinth game.


Labyrinth Game:
Pretty straight forward here. Beat the game and get a key. Use the key to open the glass door on the right balcony side to enter the living room.  Chapter 2 ends...




Chapter 3
This is awesome because I didn't expect to have another room!! 3 rooms so far. At this point I feel the 1.99 I paid for this game is totally worth it.


Item Pickup:
- tongs on carpet in North wall
- orange liquor bottle with explosive sign in East wall

Firewood Chopping with Axe:
Emma in conservatory has the axe head and Ryan in living room has the axe handle.  Yup!! Ryan has to pass the axe handle to Emma through the half opened interlocking door.  Once Emma has both the axe head and stick, combine them by opening the axe head in detail view and then choose the stick and tap on the axe head.

Use the axe to chop the big heavy logs in South wall. Emma will retrieve some firewood.

Fireplace Puzzle:
Have Emma pass the following items to Ryan: firewood, matches, candy box.
Use Ryan to light up the fireplace by first placing firewood, pouring the orange liquor in it and lighting up the firewood with matches.

Molding Candy Key Puzzle:
This is the coolest puzzle ever!!
First, have Ryan pass to Emma the soap that he's picked up in the balcony.  Emma is going to make a mold of the interlocking key in the soap.  To do this, pull out the key in the interlocking door, which results in shutting the door completely. Then with the soap in detail view, apply the interlocking key to it.

Now tap on the key in the soap to pick it up again. There you go!!  Now use the key again to half open the interlocking door and pass back the soap to Ryan

Meanwhile in the living room, have Ryan place the candy box (with candies inside) into the fireplace. The fireplace will melt the candy. Now use the tongs to pickup the hot, hot candy box.

Now with the soap in detail view, pour the liquor candy into soap (apply candy box to soap). This will create the candy key.  SWEET!!  Pun intended.
Pass this candy key back to Emma so she can fully open the interlocking door.

Finally they reunite!! Chapter 3 ends…



Chapter 4

Red Gem:
Apply matches to the red liquor bottle to ignite it.  Retrieve the red gem.

Stitched Chair:
In South wall, zoom into the red chair, tap about 5 times to break the stitches and retrieve a piece of paper that has many color dots on it.



Curtain and Ring:
In South wall again, open and close the curtain about 10 times to drop the ring. Tap underneath the piano bring up the view. Pickup the ring

Book Heart Puzzle:
First tap on the book on top of the piano to enter the bigger view. Place the piece of paper from stitched chair onto left side of the book. Place the ring in the centre. Voila!! The light will cast a shadow through the ring creating a heart shape. I love this puzzle too.

The tip of the heart will point to a color line. Mine points to the purple line. Take note of those symbols with a purple dot beside it.


The heart shadow is probably different for everyone; hence, pointing to a different color. Make note of your own color.




Carpet Chopping with Axe:
After picking up the tongs on the carpet, tap the carpet (left corner in North wall) to bring up the carpet view. Tap the top left corner again to flip the carpet over.  You can see a small crack. Use the apply to chop it open and take note of those numbers on the 3 green circles.

Blue Red Lock Puzzle:
This is another crazy amazing puzzle that this game deserves 5 stars.

Double tap to open up the blue paper detail view. It's blank. However, there are some burn on the corner. This hints at using matches to heat it to reveal some hidden msg.

On East wall in living room, there are 3 pictures with red symbols on them.

Goto the bigger view of the blue red lock in the living room North wall. It says "What's left is unnecessary".  This hint is freaking awesome yo. Remember the 4 symbols on the blue paper and 3 red symbols in the pictures?  Now cover the left side of those symbols vertically, and they resemble numbers. Inside you will get a green snake statue.



Snake Statues Puzzle:
In the yellowish brown stand to the left of the fireplace, tap on it to enter the close up view. Drag the 3 circles to match the symbols you noted earlier from the piano book.
In the green stand to the right of the fireplace, drag the 3 circles to make the numbers you found earlier in the crack underneath the carpet.

Now place the snakes on the statues: brown snake on brown statue and green snake on green statue. And tap the stand to have the two snakes face each other.




Owl & Ancient Tablet Puzzle:
Notice the owl followed Emma into the living room. Don't you wanna do something to it??  It kept on HOOT HOOTing in conservatory and we couldn't do anything. Now we can.  Use the metal ball and throw at it!!  That's right.

Note that it will land on top of the fireplace. The trick here is to have the owl land on the ancient tablet that has footprints on them. So place the tablet on top of the fireplace first. Then throw the ball at the owl until it lands on the tablet.
This will trigger the wooden box in the centre of North wall to open up.

Falling Stairs Game:
Place the labyrinth game into the hole in North wall. Make sure both snakes are facing each other to transform the labyrinth game into the falling stair game. Put the metal ball into the stair game to start playing. Beat the game!! And get the key to escape~!!!!



Saturday, December 18, 2010

Antrim Escape 2 - Team Tactics Walkthrough

UPDATE: See complete walkthrough here: 
Antrim Escape 2: Team Tactics Complete Walkthrough 

I was too busy with other stuff I can't believe I didn't play my favorite iphone game's sequel the first day it came out. I bought it this morning and am having hell of a good time solving the puzzles. I am on Chapter 3 now. When I finish the game I promise I'll put up a detailed walkthrough asap. A few hints for those who are stuck. These are the puzzles that took me a long time to solve:

- Tic-Tac-Toe Puzzle: When you're in the fountain view, tilt your phone to get the markings behind. Record it. It is the input sequence for the vent cover that has a flower button and a grass button on top of it. To translate those to the sequence, match the markings to the flower pot that has tiny flowers and tiny grass planted inside. I am not sure if it is randomized but there's a dug one in mine. And that's flower because there were 3 flowers and 5 grasses. It makes sense in a tic-tac-toe game that the numbers are 4 to 5.

- Red door puzle: When you are in the conservatory, you can find a magnifying glass on the door. You won't use it until in chapter 2. Put the magnifying glass underneath the door. Have Ryan to pick it up. Ryan can use it to read some small numbers on the right side of the balcony. Press the buttons on the door as Ryan. Switch back and forth between Ryan and Emma to have the buttons on Emma's side to show the number that you read using the magnifying glass.

Other hard-to-find items:
- On the left side of the balcony, on the floor you can find a blue piece of paper as well as a blue soap. On the right side by the tree drawing, you can find a wooden stick.
- To get the axe, pass the wooden stick in above step to Emma through the half-opened zig-zag door. Emma can use it to combine to get axe and use axe to chop the logs into smaller piece to give back to Ryan. Ryan then can put the firewood to fireplace, pour orange liquor on it, the light the fireplace up using matches.

And after the fireplace...is where I'm right now. I'll figure it out asap and share! Feel free to input what you have so far but I'm not gonna read it. Well, not until I beat the game. This game is a lot more rewarding when you beat it yourself.

Good luck to all!