Rooms And Exits Level 19 Walkthrough

Getting Through Level 19 in Rooms And Exits

Level 19 is where most players hit a wall. The room is filled with colored tiles, a keypad door, and what looks like a bunch of decorative panels that don't do anything. The puzzle itself isn't complicated, but the order of operations matters and if you skip a step you can loop yourself for twenty minutes.

Rooms And Exits Level 19 Walkthrough

Start by examining the floor tiles carefully. They aren't random decorations. There are symbols on certain tiles — arrows, numbers, and shapes. I spent a solid hour on this level back when I was stuck, because I assumed the symbols on the walls were just flavor text. They're not. Every symbol corresponds to a tile on the floor. The tiles in the center of the room have the highest priority. Click those first and note which number or shape appears. Once you've mapped the floor symbols, look at the keypad door. It requires a four-digit code. The code comes from a book sitting on the shelf near the entrance. Don't miss it. Open it and turn to the page with the calendar marked on it. There are circled dates and handwritten notes next to them. Each note has a single digit. Arrange them in chronological order of the circled dates and that's your code. I know that sounds straightforward but the handwriting on two of the dates is messy and easy to misread as a different number. Make sure you double check before entering. After the door opens, there's another room with a locked box. Inside that box is a key. Simple enough. But the key doesn't open the exit door immediately. There's a lever behind the box that needs to be pulled first. If you try the exit door with the key before pulling the lever, it won't work and you'll waste time resetting. Pull the lever, then use the key. Exit door opens.

One thing I ran into that isn't obvious: one of the floor tiles is a trick. It looks like it should be clicked but doing so resets the puzzle state partially. The tile is visually identical to the others except it has a faint scratch mark on it. Avoid clicking that one. I found this out after accidentally triggering it three times in a row and having to restart my progress on the puzzle portion. If you get stuck, the most common mistake is entering the code from the book in the wrong order. Double check the dates. That's where people go wrong most often.