The Door Trivia Game | Word Play

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1. You wake up from some bad dreams, only to find yourself locked in a corridor, no longer dreaming. In front of you is a door, your only means of escape. You approach the door, which contains your first puzzle requiring you to press colored buttons in a particular order. Trial and error will not work, as you only have one chance. Try making the photo larger, and look for all available clues. In which order shall you press the colored buttons?

Answer: Green, cyan, blue, orange, pink, yellow

If you look carefully at the picture, you will see at the bottom of the door there are colored dots. These dots match the square buttons, and are placed in the specific order you need to press the buttons. In this puzzle, the dots, reading from left to right, show green, cyan, blue, orange, pink, then yellow. This is the order the buttons must be pressed.

2. Is this even real? Are you even real? You wonder what this all could mean as you continue on. It looks like the next door wants those four zeroes filled in with different numbers. If you look at the door closely enough, you will see some hints as to what numbers go in the spots. What number will fit in the third number spot?

Answer: 2

The door this time is looking for four numbers, and the numbers make a date, written as the month then the day. On the bottom of the door, there are Christmas decorations and the words USA Xmas. So the date we are looking for is December 25, Christmas Day in the United States.

In the US, the month is written before the day, meaning we will write this as 12/25, so the third number in this puzzle is a 2.

3. You wonder, are you guilty of something? Why would you be trapped here? A string of numbers appear on the third puzzle of The Door. There are blanks in the pattern, and it seems that, if you fill in the blanks of the numbered sequence, the answer should reveal itself. If you know how to solve the square of digits, the answer to the Door's riddle is what following number?

Answer: 173547

Placing these numbers in a grid of nine blocks by nine blocks will make it easier to solve. If this is done, it will become apparent that this riddle is actually a Sudoku puzzle. When the Sudoku has been solved, there will be numbers in every blank space. The letters on the grid indicate the numbers, in order, that make up the answer. Below is the Sudoku puzzle fully solved.

2 3 7 4 6 8 9 5 1
1 4 8 5 7 9 6 2 3
6 5 9 3 1 2 7 8 4
3 7 1 2 5 6 8 4 9
5 8 2 1 9 4 3 7 6
4 9 6 8 3 7 2 1 5
7 1 3 9 2 5 4 6 8
9 2 4 6 8 1 5 3 7
8 6 5 7 4 3 1 9 2

4. The next door you encounter has a grid upon it, and it seems you are able to press each square and turn it black! There is a code involved, however, which indicates the buttons on the grid to press. At least this one is black & white, so there isn't anything else at play. Upon solving, the door does not open. It appears to want you to react to the door's new message. What is your appropriate response to gain entry?

Answer: You wave back at it

This door has employed the use of a nonogram, a specialized puzzle that creates pictures and messages when it is solved. Each row and column indicates the number of boxes that will be colored in once fully solved. If more than one number is shown on a row or column, there is at least one uncolored space between them. Some nonograms get large and complicated, incorporating numbers of different colors to reveal entire pieces of art in their place.

In this simple nonogram, we can see three columns are completely filled in, which helps with the rows and filling in the remaining gaps. Having done so, you'll see that the door is now saying "HI". You wave back at the friendly door, and are allowed to pass.

5. The next puzzle door ahead of you is a very complex mechanism. To your left you see a lever, and you hear running water. An inspection of the room indicates this door rotates, allowing water to pour through the maze in front of you. The mechanism is sophisticated, and could be easy to lose control of the water, but you quickly spot the path through the maze you must complete. Though it is not a very good drawing, once full of water the maze reveals a vague image: of what?

Answer: A Tree

Picture mazes can be far more complex than the master of the Door could manage. Puzzles like this are often easier to see the completed picture by coloring in the entire section, not just drawing a line as one typically would for a maze. In this particular case, following the path reveals a trunk and some very basic foliage at the top.

Water has been used as a method of completing circuits for a very long time, and is very cleverly used in many puzzles games and seen hiding secrets in film.

6. You wonder if ever you'll escape, or if the doors will never end. Eager to make your way out, however, you continue on. There are ten wires labeled with letters on the floor in front of the door. Each letter and number has wire connections to them. Fortunately for you, you've played enough match quizzes to know exactly what to do. You carefully attach the wires, from the left column to the right column, save one. Tell me; if you successfully connect the left letters to their corresponding right numbers, which letter wire will you exclude, or "cut", as the lone wire?

Answer: H

If you draw a line between the letter on the left and the number on the right that corresponds to the letter's location in the alphabet, all wires cross except for one. A1 through G7 all cross between each other, and I9 and J10 cross. H8 is the only wire that will not pass by any other wire on the grid.

You cut the H8 wire, and mechanisms begin to whir. The door opens with a hiss, and you continue on.

7. It ain't easy traveling a long corridor, solving puzzles to open heavy doors, but you press on to the next door. A four-digit lock is clearly the end goal here. You stare, contemplating why a map of Italy is present. Finally, you understand the association at play here, but it seems the numbers wouldn't all fit in the locations. Given all the clues, and with only 4 available slots, which of these should you enter into the combination lock?

Answer: 1551

This door clearly is indicating a Roman numeral association. Using the word MILD, you can deduce each one's Roman numeral equivalent. Unfortunately, there is not even space for 1,000 1 50 500. If you add them up, however, you'll get a total of 1,551, which can be represented as MDLI in Roman numerals. Yes, the door is pleased, a scrambled Roman numeral puzzle solved!

8. You press on; and a strange, triangular door is before you. The door has a mechanism just next to it, it appears to be asking for triangles. You give it one, but it does not open. What more can I say? How many triangles do you see, to appease The Door?

Answer: 30

Puzzles asking for the number of triangles can be tricky, but all you need to do is solve one layer to find the total number of triangles visible. The top layer has four obviously visible triangles, but if you add two triangles together to make a new one, there are three more.

There are two more using this method with three triangles in it, and the entire cap is also a triangle. This makes a total of 10. Because the next layer can be added to each to create new triangles, we can add another 10, and with the base layer, the same thing is true, for another 10.

Therefore, a total of 30 triangles is needed to pass through this door.

9. A flame lights inside you. You feel you must be getting close to the end. The next task The Door presents seems to you like a two-parter. Lucky for you, you are a fan of the game show "Countdown", and recognize both the numbers and letters games anywhere. First, you solve the letters. Seeing as there are no numbers given for the maths portion of the puzzle, you know what you must do. Solving the Letters game provides you with the answer to the Numbers game. Therefore, which of these equations will satisfy The Door and unlock your path?

Answer: ([100 / 25] x [8 / 2]) + 6 / 6

If you solve the anagram in the Letters game, you'll find the word formed to be SEVENTEEN. This is the target number to achieve in the maths portion. In the case of ([100 / 25] x [8 / 2]) + 6 / 6, we can solve using the order of operations. PEMDAS (or BODMAS or other variation) tells us that parentheses and brackets come first. We can simplify each portion, then, to get (4 x 4) + 6 / 6. Multiplication and division come next, so we can simplify to 16 + 1, adding finally to reach 17. In this particular example, the parentheses and brackets are completely irrelevant. The Door does not care, so long as the answer reaches 17. For that matter, the simple math equation of 25 - 8 would have sufficed.

Using the same method for the other three equations, we get the following:
(100 x 2 - 25) / (8 x 6 / 6) = 21.875
(6 - 2) + ([25 - 8] x 100) x 6 = 10,204
(6 x 6) / (25 x 8 / 100) - 2 = 16

10. You hear music faintly in the background as you approach the next door. You recognize the song, as well as the rebus appearing on the door before you. It all clicks, and you've been given clues this entire time. Solve the rebus, solve the clues, or do both. Either way, you should arrive at the final answer, a musical artist's name. What will you use as the answer to The Door?

Answer: Teddy Swims

Did you solve the rebus, or the clues? Jaten Collin Dimsdale, known by his stage name, Teddy Swims, is presented in rebus form in the picture on The Door. Who knows what swimming stroke the little bear is doing, but he sure does seem to be enjoying his time.

There were also clues in each question, a reference to a Teddy Swims song title. In order of appearance: "Bad Dreams", "Are You Even Real", "Guilty", "Black & White", "Lose Control", "Tell Me", "It Ain't Easy", "What More Can I Say?" and "Flame". Of course, the entire quiz is a clue. "The Door" is the tenth song title mentioned throughout.

Source: Author salami_swami

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The Door Trivia Quiz

Ten puzzles between you and freedom. Only one way out. Can you make it through "The Door"? Pay attention to the entire picture, or you may miss important clues.

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