Walkthrough / Gradual Hints for Type Help
These hints are designed to give you just the hint you need to get to the next scene.
Questions? Post on the intfiction.org forum.
General questions / Getting started
There's an empty box on my screen. What do I do?
- Click on the box and type something.
- The game has provided a contextual clue about what you should type.
TYPE HELP
What am I trying to do in this game?
- Start by reading your inbox. (If you haven't found the inbox, see the previous question.)
- Type
inbox
and then click on the Brief.
- Try typing those codes into the box. For example, copy and paste
01-QU-1-11
into the box.
04-ST-?????
couldn't be found. Can you figure out what the rest of the file name is?
- Your objective for the majority of this game is to find files to search for in the box. (There are a lot of
them.)
How many files are there in this game?
- There are 98 files in this game. When you type
help
you can see the number of files you've found.
- There's a pattern in the file names that you'll need to figure out.
- Each of the filenames you've seen begins with a number part, and then two letters, and then a series of
numbers.
04-ST-?????
does, too.
- You'll need to guess which numbers go in the
?????
part.
- Read
03-LI-1-4-5-6-7-8-9
closely.
- What do the letter codes mean?
- What does
QU
mean? What does EN
mean? What does LI
mean?
- In
02-EN-1-6-7-10
, Person 1 uses a word starting with "Qu."
- In
01-QU-1-11
, Person 11 uses a word starting with "En."
- In
02-EN-1-6-7-10
, Person 7 uses a word starting with "Li."
- The letter codes are locations.
QU
is Quail Lane. EN
is the Entrance, and
LI
is the Living Room.
- Now that you know what the letter codes mean, what does
ST
mean?
- In
03-LI-1-4-5-6-7-8-9
, Person 5 uses a word starting with "St."
- The
ST
means "Study."
- What do the numbers mean in the files you've unlocked? (In the next hint, I'll just tell you what they
mean.)
- Each file lists the numeric person IDs of the people who appear in that recording, in numeric order from lowest
to highest.
- To figure out
04-ST-?????
, you'll need to figure out who was in the Study after the Living Room
scene 03-LI-1-4-5-6-7-8-9
.
- In
03-LI-1-4-5-6-7-8-9
, Person 5 invites Person 1 and Person 8 into the Study.
04-ST-1-5-8
How do I solve the hangman game?
- To submit a letter, type
hangman x
where x
is the letter you choose.
- Did you try all the vowels?
- Did you try all of the most commonly used consonants?
- You can't solve it.
Now what do I do?
Copy your list of found files into the box below, and click "Submit."
For example, you could copy and paste this:
(0) 00-invitation
(1) 00-readme
(0) 01-QU-1-11
(1) 02-EN-1-6-7-10
(3) 03-LI-1-4-5-6-7-8-9
I'll provide you with hints leading you to another file.