# New game ... Beware!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 7, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734 "2002-11-07T16:52:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/1 "2002-11-07T16:52:00Z")
The following was [Userfriendly](http://www.userfriendly.org)’s Link of the Day.
[http://www.albartus.com/motas/mystery/game.htm](http://www.albartus.com/motas/mystery/game.htm)
It’s a graphical puzzle/adventure game. It seems to be quite interesting, although I haven’t gotten very far yet…
Second area, with the clock and the computer. We’ll see.
_Hinky linky fixified - UB_
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/2 "2002-11-07T17:17:52Z")
Doh, sorry about the bad link. (Preview is my friend…) Here it is again: Userfriendly
New information: There seems to be some sort of help menu, vaguely accessible from the top right side of the screen (I think). I used it to turn text descriptions on, which may be helpful.
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/3 "2002-11-07T17:24:48Z")
I can’t seem to do anything with the diskette box.
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/4 "2002-11-07T17:41:41Z")
**Legomancer** , are there diskettes in the diskette box? Can you open it? perhaps use them with the computer?
Where did you find the diskette box?? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/5 "2002-11-07T17:57:14Z")
Got it now. I missed a particular detail. Now I’m in the next room…
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/6 "2002-11-07T17:59:52Z")
The box is on top of the bookcase.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/7 "2002-11-07T18:02:19Z")
Woohoo, room #3!
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/8 "2002-11-07T18:04:57Z")
Thanks, **Mullinator** , that was driving me crazy. I think I need to turn up the lighting on my screen or something…
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/9 "2002-11-07T18:13:18Z")
Double woohoo, room #4! Of course, it would be nice to know how many I have to go.
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### Author:  [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/10 "2002-11-07T18:16:44Z")
I’m confused - what am I supposed to do in the first room with the poster and the key and the screw driver? Ok - what am I supposed to do in the first room with everything?
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/11 "2002-11-07T18:18:42Z")
On a roll! Room 5 looks interesting
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### Author:  [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/12 "2002-11-07T18:24:19Z")
OK - now I managed to get into the computer room. No luck there yet though.
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/13 "2002-11-07T18:33:08Z")
Finished it! There’s a long sequence of “odd man out” on a lock. Had to guess on one of them and I’m still not sure why that one was the odd one. Some of them are pretty tricksy.
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### Author:  [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/14 "2002-11-07T18:34:55Z")
How do I use the diskette in the computer? I can’t get it to rest on the table. Help.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/15 "2002-11-07T18:37:28Z")
I still don’t know why P was the odd one out. That one escaped me completely.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/16 "2002-11-07T18:40:14Z")
I want that flag in the computer room. 🙂
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### Author:  [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/17 "2002-11-07T18:45:18Z")
I’m so confused now! Even more so than before. I’m in the room with the walking bridge. Can someone help me?
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### Author:  [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/18 "2002-11-07T18:46:10Z")
5th room 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/19 "2002-11-07T18:48:20Z")
After that infernally long lock, the next room was a cake walk.
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-beware/135734/20 "2002-11-07T18:48:22Z")
Yeah, I’m not sure why some of the buttons on the IntelliLock are correct… had to guess on two or three.
**Skittles** , you don’t need to get the diskette to rest on the table, you just need to put the diskette into the disk drive (by clicking on in it your inventory at the top of the screen, and clicking on the disk drive). Of course, if you don’t have the diskette out of the box yet, you’re missing something else …
I’m up to the room with the color wheel and framed wheel, just past the motorcycle room. (I didn’t open the locker near the motorcycle, so I hope that wasn’t important.) Now I can’t figure out this elevator…
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