Tricky Doors Walkthrough: Episode 3 – Locked Apartment

Episode 3 takes place inside a locked apartment where the protagonist wakes up trapped. As you explore the rooms and uncover hidden clues, it becomes clear that people recently left the apartment under mysterious circumstances. Your goal is to escape, but someone, or something, doesn’t want you to leave. This guide will walk you through all the steps needed to complete the episode.

Turning on the Lights

1. Pick up the feather duster from the shelf on the right.
2. Go to the light switch and use the duster to clean off cobwebs.
3. Take Token (1/5) from behind the switch, close the panel, and turn on the light.

Searching the Living Room

1. Pick up sleeping pills from the table. Break off the broken chair leg and take it.
2. Lift the corner of the rug to find a match and Token (2/5). Grab Token (3/5) from the pillow on the armchair.
3. Take the rope from under a stack of books on the table.
4. Collect Token (4/5) from the lamp. Use the chair leg to move the burned log in the fireplace, then collect the window handle and a chess piece (queen).
5. Install the handle on the window and close it.
6. Insert the queen chess piece into the chessboard-like box on the couch. Solve the chess puzzle by placing queens so none threaten each other. Take Token (5/5) after solving.
7. Find a jewelry box under the melted snow on the window ledge. Insert the five tokens to unlock a color-based puzzle. Solve it to receive a magnet.
8. Combine the magnet with the rope to make a magnet on a string.
9. Use the magnet in the aquarium to retrieve a key.
10. Use the key to unlock the door and move to the kitchen.

Exploring the Kitchen

1. From the freezer, take a frozen piece of meat.
2. Take the knife from the pull-out drawer (use the keys hanging on the chair).
3. Open the cabinet under the sink and take the rubber gloves. Tip over the trash can, remove trash, and collect a fuse.

Unlocking the Storage Room

1. Return to the living room. Use the knife to cut the blue-striped pillow and retrieve a key.
2. Use the key to open the locked drawer on the storage room door. Solve the lock puzzle to access the fuse box.
3. Wearing rubber gloves, remove the burned-out fuse and replace it with the new one.

Inside the Storage Room

1. Unplug the washing machine cable using the rubber gloves. Cut off the plug and wire with the knife.
2. Open the washing machine and take out the clothes. Check the checkered shirt pocket for a screwdriver bit and remember the colors on the pocket.
3. Use the knife to break the ice on the small window.
4. Take the screwdriver handle from the drawer next to the washer and insert the bit to complete the tool.

Cooking the Trap

1. Take the newspaper from the table and a microwave clue based on cup positions.
2. Go to the microwave. Place the frozen meat inside.
3. Combine the wire and plug to power the microwave.
4. Set the knobs according to the cup clue and leave on only the colored buttons matching the checkered pocket.
5. Once cooked, add the sleeping pills to the meat and take the bait.

Distracting the Dog

1. Return to the storage room. Throw the bait to the dog and wait for it to fall asleep.
2. Collect the kettle from the shelf and firewood near the dog.

Lighting the Fireplace

1. Go to the living room. Place the newspaper and firewood into the fireplace and light them using the match.
2. Examine the painting above the fireplace and memorize the number of hats, horses, snakes, and hawks.

Unlocking the Safe

1. In the storage room, examine a second painting to count the same objects.
2. Use the numbers from both paintings to enter the code 5872 on the safe.
3. Inside the safe, take the valve and battery. Combine the battery with the screwdriver.

Fixing the Plumbing

1. Go to the kitchen. Under the sink, open the valve panel and install the missing valve.
2. Arrange the pipes to allow water flow from inlet to outlet and rotate the valves correctly (see diagram if needed).
3. Fill the kettle with water from the tap.
4. Heat the kettle on the stove and take the boiling water.
5. Use the screwdriver to open the vent cover and retrieve a key.

Escaping

1. Go to the window with ice in the storage room.
2. Use the kettle of boiling water to melt the ice.
3. Use the key to unlock the window.
4. Open it and escape the apartment, completing Episode 3!