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Burma Shave #615268
04/18/10 02:25 AM
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I am a bit new to adventure games but like puzzles so this looked promising. I am still finding my feet though.
I am stuck at the start. I am around the back of the house and have advanced the balls and generated the first number at top right. I have assumed I need to make that number the same as the one I can see in the window at the front of the house.
I can change the number using the levers back at the start, but cant work out how each lever changes the number - it seems to vary depending upon the sequence.
So I am stuck. Can anyone help?
And are they all this hard?

Re: Burma Shave [Re: mors] #615289
04/18/10 06:12 AM
04/18/10 06:12 AM
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Hi mors, welcome to GameBoomers.

I haven't played this game, but I've heard that it's a challenging one. There's no walkthrough as yet that I've been able to find, so let's wait for help here.


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: mors] #615291
04/18/10 06:29 AM
04/18/10 06:29 AM
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I played the demo myself. This puzzle is pretty good. Yes you have to generate the number on the front door by pushing the 4 buttons on the stand at the end of the pathway. After you are able to see a number at the back on the building write it down. Then you will notice 4 columns of 3 numbers. Each column matches to the 4 buttons on the stand out front. Take each number in each column and divide it into the number you wrote down. There is going to be only one in each column that will divide evenly with no remainder. This will tell you what four numbers the 4 switches are presently set to. Now, the number on the door is 8246. You have to get the 4 switches to match 4 numbers that when multiplied all together will give the door number. In this case, 31x7x19x2=8246. Knowing where the 4 switches presently sit, cycle each of the four to match 31, 7, 19, 2. BTW, the switches cycle up the column of numbers and not down.

Re: Burma Shave [Re: Mordack] #615293
04/18/10 06:57 AM
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Thanks, Mordack!


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: Rushes] #615437
04/18/10 05:20 PM
04/18/10 05:20 PM
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Anyone needing help or hints for the game can email me at the address given on the official site . Hopefully, there will be a walkthrough for this soon. In the meantime, good to see you helping out.
Note: This is one of the more difficult puzzles.

Last edited by Slip Space; 04/18/10 05:21 PM.

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Re: Burma Shave [Re: Slip Space] #615504
04/19/10 02:45 AM
04/19/10 02:45 AM
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I certainly found this one tricky.


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: flotsam] #615754
04/20/10 05:09 AM
04/20/10 05:09 AM
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I downloaded the demo but haven't played yet. Thanks for the hint Mordak.


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: Kaki's Sister] #616744
04/23/10 08:13 PM
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I am starting to feel this might be beyond me. I have been playing around for a while at the next location and can get from place to place on the various platforms, but can'r work out what to do or any way forward. What am I trying to do here and what is the next objective? Maybe that will help. Everything just seems so confusing.

Re: Burma Shave [Re: mors] #616771
04/23/10 10:18 PM
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Hopefully someone that is playing will help us here.

Re: Burma Shave [Re: flotsam] #616797
04/24/10 01:56 AM
04/24/10 01:56 AM
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I would try and work out the transport booth problem first, because once done it frees up the limitations on the mechanism and makes transport easier.
Enter a transport booth and it should be apparent you can access only a certain number of locations from the one you are at. Fiddle with the machanism and you will see that as you move from one place to another (your location is the one in the midddle), different locations become accessible. Keep fiddling and you should see there is a cycle to the way in which locations become available. The puzzle is a bit like a slider - you are trying to manipulate the dome location into an accessible position.

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In the meantime, I am majorly stuck.
Have been playing for quite a while now. I have all the huts open (I think), and have solved one of them (the one with the elevators). However I can't work out the last sequnce on the panel for the laser array at Vkoda (I have lowered the pergola, found what appears to be the solution on an external panel, but can't make it work - some more colour definition might help) and the the satellite array eludes me at Royal.
I only just opened Tat so will play in there, but a nudge on either of the other two would be appreciated.
Some excellent puzzles so far.

Last edited by Rushes; 04/24/10 04:28 AM. Reason: combined stacked posts

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Re: Burma Shave [Re: flotsam] #616810
04/24/10 04:30 AM
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Thanks, flotsam.
luck mors.

Let's wait for help with your problem now. smile


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: Rushes] #616848
04/24/10 08:48 AM
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Hi flotsam, I'm going to help you via email since I have your email address. I'm willing to help anyone else as well. Find my email address on the links page of the official website .


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Re: Burma Shave [Re: Slip Space] #616851
04/24/10 08:54 AM
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Thanks, Slip Space! We appreciate you taking the time to help.

Posting your help here as well might also assist other players stuck at the same spot. smile Otherwise the same question may be asked here over and over.


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