Frustrating Flash Friday

September 5, 2008 12:32 PM

Flash Friday: Casual Gameplay Escape is a game where you solve puzzles to escape a room. Some puzzles are more difficult than others.
posted by schyler523 (15 comments total)

Here's a not really helpful walkthrough if you get stuck...clues are hidden until you click on them.
posted by schyler523 at 12:46 PM on September 5, 2008

Actually that walkthrough is here...oops.
posted by schyler523 at 12:47 PM on September 5, 2008

Um, some of these games seem very crappy. Like the dice game which has many possible solutions but one correct answer, and the red and yellow squares game, which I can't see the logic of. I'm still hooked, though.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:42 PM on September 5, 2008

I can only see one solution to the dice game. I played this earlier in the week, but I went back just now to look again, and I just can't see any other way for it to work.

Also, the red/yellow rectangle puzzle was one I had to refer to the walkthrough to get. I tells you "what" to do, but now "how," so at least I still had to figure something out on my own there.
posted by owtytrof at 1:54 PM on September 5, 2008

Finished the whole thing without the any help. Probably the first time I've ever done that with a flash "escape" game.
posted by mrnutty at 1:55 PM on September 5, 2008

...and it didn't take me that long, either.

/costanza
posted by mrnutty at 2:02 PM on September 5, 2008

Okay, I finally got the jist of using the posters, so I take back my complaint about the DJ game. I escaped at last. It feels pretty good, actually, to be out of there.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:07 PM on September 5, 2008

This is pretty frustrating.
posted by cj_ at 3:16 PM on September 5, 2008

Okay, let me just save you all the trouble: this is, hands-down, the best room escape game out there.
posted by greenie2600 at 3:49 PM on September 5, 2008 [4 favorites]

that. was. AWESOME, greenie.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 7:36 PM on September 5, 2008

Okay, let me just save you all the trouble: this is, hands-down, the best room escape game out there.
More neutral games.

These are pretty neat too.
posted by juv3nal at 7:48 PM on September 5, 2008

I nominate the "escpape" tag as a signifier of things unnecessarily frustrating.
posted by The White Hat at 10:19 PM on September 5, 2008

The Vision game greenie links is great because the puzzles are actually logical. If you can't figure it out, it's your own damn fault.
posted by neckro23 at 2:17 PM on September 6, 2008

Wow. Some of those puzzles were not logical. Lots of guesswork, trial and error, trying things so many goddamn times. More frustrating than engaging.
posted by tehloki at 6:35 PM on September 6, 2008

this was amazing!
posted by bitteroldman at 4:45 PM on September 8, 2008