Solution Guide
Storage
There are two riddles on the wagon and they need to be solved one after the other.
When you start the room, you will be in an obscure room, find the switch and click on it to turn on the light.
First of all you have to focus on the wall full of objects with a poster on the middle.
There is a codex code on that poster, but that's a codex code and how to use it ? This is always a code with 4 numbers. The Companion App player has a widget named "CODEX" in which you can enter these codex code. You will need it all game long to make your way through the train!
7 Differencies
Deliveries
Congratulations, you cleared the first room!
Lounge
Welcome to the lounge!
There are 3 riddles in this room, each one uses different skills and understanding to complete the room in time! You can take each of the puzzles in no particular order but you’ll need to resolve them all to escape!
The first puzzle is related to the model on the left when you enter the room. This is based on Cesar encryption.
For the seconde puzzle, both player have to listen carefully to audios and describe them with their voices to resolve the piano riddle.
The last one is on the little room at the back of the wagon, you will have to use the morse code to resolve it!
Model
Scores
Suitcase
Congratulations, you cleared the 2nd room!
Bunk
Welcome to the bunk!
There are 3 riddles in this room, each one uses different skills and understanding to complete the room in time! You can take each of the puzzles in no particular order but you’ll need to resolve them all to escape!
The first puzzle is focused on the passengers' tickets but also on their description and their rooms. For this one, logic is the key!
For the second puzzle, it’s important not to get surprised by Austrian monuments' names. Read carefully each story to succeed.
The last one is an identikit photo riddle. Description and communication is the most important to solve this riddle.
Bunk Layout
City Plan
Identikit Photo
Congratulations, you cleared the 3rd room!
Engine
Welcome to the engine!
This room contains 4 riddles, each one uses different skills and understanding to complete the room in time! 3 of them can be solved in any order but one is locked before 2 specifics are done.
On the back of the wagon, there is a big machine with valves. This riddle is based on chemistry.
On the right of the wagon there is another big machine surrounded by a wire fence. There are 3 riddles on it.
Behind this machine there is plate that can be opened with a screwdriver. With a lot of wires inside.
On the front of this machine, there’s another 2 riddles. On the left, a maze that can be unlockable with the star badge. On the right side, there's the last riddle but it’s locked. It can only be opened by solving the wires and maze puzzles.
Machine with valves
Wires
Lights
Control Panel
Congratulations, you cleared the 4th room!
Kitchen
Welcome to the kitchen!
This is the one of the most difficult wagon.
This room contains 3 riddles, each one uses different skills and understanding to complete the room in time! You only need one key to get out of the car but it can only be unlocked by completing each riddle.
Several fruits are dispatched in the wagon. The key to solving the first puzzle is to understand what to do with these. It’s a riddle divided in two parts: the first one is to throw out some of these fruits, the second part is to guess their weight to open the padlock.
Then, you’ll find dish towels that lead to picross / nonogram grids in order to play music with pans.
The last one will need you to focus on audio recipes and link them to a frying pan pattern.
Fruits
Towels/Pans
Audio tapes recipes
How to exit?
Congratulations, you cleared the 5th room!
Desk
Welcome to the desk!
For the first part, you can resolve either the submarine or the globe in no particular order. Once a puzzle is solved, you will get one part of the key to access the second part as a part of a codex code. You need to solve both puzzles to get the full codex code and continue the car.
One is hidden in the submarine model, the second in the sun of the solar system model.
There are 2 puzzles on the first part of the car.
One puzzle is at the start of the car. Players needs to open the submarine by putting the correct code on the padlock.
The second one is a two part puzzle : the globe and the solar system.
There is one puzzle on the second part of the car which is about constellations.
Radio
Globe
Solar System
Book
Constellations
Congratulations, you cleared the 6th room!
Locomotive
Welcome to the locomotive, the final car!
This car is the longest due to the number of puzzles you have to solve to escape it.
At the player’s left when they enter the room there is a rocket puzzle composed of five different riddles.
At the left end of the car, there is another puzzle composed of two different puzzles.
Each of those two big puzzles gives a floppy disk that players have to put in the camera machine to unlock this final riddle.
Rocket: Filing up reserves
Rocket: Launch module
Rocket: Initialisation of the password
Rocket: Connectivity
Rocket: Placement
Cube machine
Motherboard
Cameras
Congratulations, you’ve cleared the locomotive car, but this isn’t the end!
Final puzzle
Here is the final puzzle!
Players have to finish the camera's puzzle to find the codex code and reach this final puzzle. The codex code is 0440. Both players have to enter this code to be synchronized. The player in the room has to enter it on the final door and the Companion App player on the codex widget.
This final puzzle isn’t the hardest but it needs communication and synchronization with your partner because it’s a quickness puzzle.
Each player has a screen with 25 symbols but 3 of them are different between both players. Players have only 3 minutes to find which symbols are different.
Here is the solution:
The cinematic ending is different if players have succeeded this final riddle or not.
Anyway, congratulations you have finished How 2 Escape!