If your mother-in-law isn't criticising the cooking, it's your wacky uncle going a bit Brexit over pudding while the children run riot with the latest flashing gadget that's destined for the bin. Now, if you've ever had two families over for Christmas, you'll know that having that many people in the same house for a couple hours is a setup rife with murderous intent. Grimoire and Sally have something to say about everything in any given scene. Adopted into the halls of Tangle Tower as a young girl, Freya grew up alongside her fellow, err… Fellows, as well as her similarly distant Pointer relatives, who occupy the second of house Tangle's two towers. It's yet another impossible mystery to solve, making the whodunnit just as compelling as the how.Īt the centre of it all is poor Freya Fellow, a gifted artist, scientist and all-round wunderkind who met her untimely end while painting her dear friend (and distant relative) Flora Fellow.

By beginning its tale with something so patently preposterous, Tangle Tower manages the rare feat of making everyone in its titular mansion feel like a genuine suspect. 'Of course, a painting can't kill anyone', your mind shrieks. It sounds ridiculous, and yes, I don't think it's a spoiler to say it is ridiculous. a portrait holding a blood-tipped knife? Instead of a person being the prime murder suspect in this charming Phoenix Wright meets Professor Layton-style detective puzzler, it's *checks notes*. Tangle Tower, the latest game from Snipperclips brothers SFB Games, goes one step further, though. The former's still important for a satisfying ending, of course, but unravelling what appears to be the impossible (how did they get in? How did they leave?) is a much more brain-pleasing knot to unpick than figuring out which of the many shifty faces in front of you looks the most suspicious. The best ones aren't so much about the 'whodunnit', but the 'howdunnit'. The symbol for gold is on the hex labeled VI.I love a good locked room mystery. In this path, VI and VII are never visited. If you follow the line path, you visit the following places in the hex grid: II, I, III, IV, V, VIII, IX, XII, XI, X. The only way the relative positions work is if the pi corresponds to position II in the grid. Overlay the Greek letter paper's general organization of boxes onto the hex grid from the lab. We still get the same conclusion using another line of reasoning. Let's suppose, however, you don't buy the 'atomic mass 197' reasoning. What we're MEANT to get from this is that the pathways to get beetles made of components with atomic mass 191, 193, 195, 196, 200, 201, 206, and 209 have all been found! However, getting that mass 197 gold beetle has proven elusive.Ĭonclusion: All of these papers just show that it's hard to make gold in this world. (Neutrons don't affect an atom's elemental identity, but it's magic beetles, so who cares?). The developers either confused atomic number with atomic mass, or else alchemy in this universe relies on atomic mass. The atomic mass of gold is 196.967, almost exactly 197. The number BELOW the element's symbol gives you its atomic mass (protons + neutrons, averaged across all isotopes, or versions) of an element. On the periodic table, the atomic number ABOVE an element's symbol tells you which element it is. So you can get diagrams with forks and branching depending on what kind of decay happens. This can change the number of protons (for example, gold has 79 protons) and yield a different element. In chemistry, nuclear decay (such as ALPHA or BETA decay see the alpha and beta letters in the diagram) can lead to different pathways that turn elements into each other. The achievement name, 'Chemistry or Alchemy,' is likely also a clue. On the table nearby are beetles made of different materials, some of which are labeled with numbers. Maybe SB Games just wanted to torture us. the next poster needs to analyze this because I HAVE NO CLUE what this means. Tried to make it with the planets in the right order and find the logic with the numbers but to no avail. I thought it was some kind of family chart. THen the chart with the A B C could be pretty intereting. I thought I was onto something with the Greek symbols which could start spelling as PEWY or PENNY.

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