Submissions by jose.gra6380 tagged whydoiknowthat

'Chemical Escape' is a Escape Room game.

A renowned doctor, specializing in biochemistry, wakes up in a lab. He recalls nothing other than a lecture he was supposed to give. The whole lab has a weird smell, and everything has an eerie feeling to it. Suddenly, the speakers on a corner start blasting. The voice is that of your old comrade, a doctor exiled from the field due to his controversial experiments. He notifies you all of your workmates are dead. Only you have been spared, from a favour he owed you from way back. But he won't make things easy on you. The room is slowly filling up with gas. In an hour, you will be paralyzed and die. Seek a way out!

The image attached to the post contains the room layout.

1)Box full of human parts in jars (Ears, liver, bones, eyes, tongue, nose, lungs, fingers).

2)Scale

3)Laptop with "The sum of all senses" on its screen.

Password: Weight the eyes, ears, tongue, fingers and nose. Type in that sum. The previously locked section of the laptop where CDs and DVDs are put in will open by itself.

Yields: Green chip with an A on it (Adenine). Purple paper with Element 4.003 written on it.

4)Periodic Table. Below the elements it says

Code (As squares of colour): Purple/Yellow/Blue/Red.

5)Laptop saying "Your Gold and Silver won't save you. Yet together they might light a path".

Requires a three digit code.

Password: With the help of the periodic table, add up Gold (Au) and Silver (Ag)'s atomic numbers (47 + 79) to obtain the password, 126.

Yields: Purple chip with a T on it (Thymine). Red paper with Element C written on it.

6)Papers full of chemistry articles.

Headlines:

Murky Water's Bane: Article talks about Aluminium Sulphate, Al2(S04)3,'s effects on murky water and how it drives the sediments to the bottom.

DNA for Dummies: Article briefly talks about DNA's nucleobases, mentioning in the order ofcytosine(C), guanine(G), adenine(A), and thymine(T).

Article about the chemical bioterrorism attack that has been conducted as you lay trying to escape the room.

Among the papers there is also a yellow paper with Element 75 written on it.


7)There is a bulletproof glass wine bottle firmly stuck onto the table (can't be lifted, nor broken) filled with murky water.

8)Cabinet full of harmless chemicals with long names.

9)Laptop saying "Purify the source of life". 9 letters long password. After reading the article about Murky Water's Bane, skim through the cabinet and you'll find the mentioned solution, Aluminium Sulphate. Pour it into the murky bottle. Eventually, the sediments will dive to the bottom and now you can read SOCIOPaTh on the now clear glass.

Password: SOCIOPaTh

Yields: Grey Paper with Element 1st on IVB on it. Yellow chip with a C on it (Cytosine).

10)Laptop saying "Scorned by the Elements". 7 letter password.

Password: With the coloured papers found from previous puzzles and the hint on the periodic table, the elements corresponding to the information, ordered in the colors given spell out HeReTiC.

Yields: Blue Chip with a G on it (Guanine).

11)Panel locking the door with 4 slots for chips. To open the door, the player must introduce the chips in the panel slots in the order described by the article ( CGAT ).

You found a way out!