Limited-time event guide
Escape the Nightmare — Haunted Hotel
Escape the Nightmare — Haunted Hotel is the first Nightmare room: a dim skull-decorated bedroom where a basket-lid tile board, a skull-cabinet object search, a chest wiring panel, a gear-driven clock clue, a six-wheel lock, a red-X marker grid, and a corkboard photo layout lead to the open door.
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How to Approach Escape the Nightmare — Haunted Hotel
- Open the woven basket's lid and slide the diamond tiles until the blue, pink, green, and red groups are whole; the basket opens and gives up its items. Check the corner-shelf panel with the four colored dots on the way.
- Search the skull cabinet's black-and-white board for every listed object until all the green circles are placed. The cabinet empties and yields a Gear; a second Gear lies under the bed blanket beside the printed 2 3 1.
- Open the domed chest's wiring panel and move the symbol pegs along its lines until the status light turns green; the chest opens.
- Fit both Gears into the gear train under the three clocks. Read the hands as 12, 6, and 3:15, then apply the bedsheet order 2 3 1 and set the dresser's six wheels to 631512. The drawer gives a Box cutter and a Pin.
- Use the Box cutter on the skull to free the Memento mori coin, then put the coin into the small panel on the dresser. On the red-X grid that opens, move the markers with the skull directional pad until they reach the green target circle; another dresser drawer opens.
- Combine each Photo with a Pin in Inventory, pin them on the corkboard, and rearrange them to match the colored shapes on the crumpled paper. When the last slot is filled, the door opens and LEVEL COMPLETED! appears.
Common Sticking Points
- Entering the clock readings left to right as 126315. The bedsheet's 2 3 1 reorders them, and the source's working code is 631512.
- Trying to drop a bare photo on the corkboard. The source combines Photo and Pin in Inventory first.
Quick Tips
- Start with the basket lid: slide the diamond tiles until the blue, pink, green, and red groups each form one solid block.
- The gear train needs two Gears: one lies under the bed blanket, and the other comes out of the skull cabinet after its hidden-object search, where every correct find is circled green.
- Under the clocks, fit both Gears into the gear train. The clocks then read 12, 6, and 3:15, and the bedsheet prints the order 2 3 1, so the six wheels read 6 3 1 5 1 2.
- Each loose photo must be combined with a Pin in Inventory before it can go on the corkboard.
- The crumpled paper's colored triangles, circles, and squares are the corkboard layout: match each photo's color and position to it.
Evidence-backed scene notes
- Scene
- The isometric bedroom has a blue-covered bed with a skull pillow and candle on the left, a pink runner and round woven basket in the foreground, a dark domed chest by the door, corner shelves with plants and books, a colored-photo corkboard, a framed portrait, a skull-filled cabinet, and a record-player dresser with drawers.
- Goal
- Clear the chained boards, pin the recovered photos onto the corkboard in the layout the crumpled paper shows, and reach the LEVEL COMPLETED! screen with its +50 coins.
- Opening clues
- After the Monarch of Mayhem's "Welcome to my domain, Ms. Fox" exchange, the Level 1 card names The Haunted Hotel. The first close-up in the source is the woven basket's lid, followed by the corner-shelf panel with four colored dots.
- Puzzle direction
- The source shows a four-color diamond tile board, a grayscale hidden-object search marked with green circles, a peg-and-line wiring panel with red/green lights, a gear train under three clock faces, six-window number wheels, Inventory Combine for Photo + Pin, a skull-controlled red-X marker grid, and a corkboard photo arrangement.
- Sticking point
- The six number wheels need all three clock readings in the order printed on the bedsheet, not left to right. On the late grid, red X cells are hard blockers for the skull markers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the six-wheel code in Haunted Hotel?
In the source it is 631512. The three clocks read 12, 6, and 3:15 after both Gears are fitted, and the bedsheet prints 2 3 1, so the second, third, and first readings are entered in that order.
Where are the Gears?
There are two. One lies under the bed blanket, next to the printed 2 3 1. The other comes out of the skull cabinet after you finish its black-and-white hidden-object search, where every correct find gets a green circle.
How do I finish the corkboard?
Combine each Photo with a Pin in Inventory, pin it to the board, and match the colors and positions to the triangles, circles, and squares on the crumpled paper. Filling the last slot opens the door and ends the level.