Book Shop Secret Maybe?

[Lantantan]

Spoilers I guess? So the bookshop directory image does not match the interior of the drafted room, suggesting the book case has been rotated. A new clue book has a sign pointing to that book case too but so far I'm stumped on how to get it to open, anyone wiser than me found out yet?

[Lantantan]

Originally posted by Varsoon:

Originally posted by Roan:

Has anyone tried drafting the Bookstore as their last room?

Lasting hope = "Last in hope?"

Welp, one more thing to try.

I did, but not as my 45th room, not in that sense last room.

[Varsoon]

Following up with one of my hunches :
Digging up the Treasure Map treasure in the Book Shop did not reward anything unique.

I'm still working on both drafting it as room 45 as well as using the Ballerina Shrine buff to rotate the room.

[Varsoon]

I managed to draft the Bookstore as my final room, in the top right.
Unfortunately, this does not seem to have unlocked anything or changed the room in any way beyond what is normal expected behavior :
Estate Map : https://i.imgur.com/pM1V1B6.jpeg
Shelf Screenshot : https://i.imgur.com/yyj8uR8.jpeg
Store Screenshot : https://i.imgur.com/eJ5fRld.jpeg

[Varsoon]

Following up on rotation--this may be a dead end, too :
https://i.imgur.com/1GZeOfs.jpeg

[ramtha666]

Originally posted by Lantantan:

Yeah, A New Clue is so dense it's hard to know which clue matches which. On that same page there's also the clocks, but that hint is also used elsewhere. I also recall waiting in that room for ages without anything happening.

My biggest Blue Prince complaint is that A New Clue is stupidly dense with clues. It's just inelegant and obtuse.

The entire game is designed so beautifully to prevent bottleneck puzzles that are required to make progress. Then after many hours A New Clue is about as severe a bottleneck as you'll find in any game.

Probably irrelevant to the thread but I had to vent this somewhere after I finally caved and looked up A New Clue solutions. I detest looking up puzzle solutions and usually drop games after I do so. I might stick out Blue Prince though even with a bruised ego.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Varsoon:

Originally posted by Lantantan:

Myself I've been mulling over the newspaper clipping that has the bold words LASTING HOPE, which feels like there's an anagram there. Sadly i'm terrible with word puzzles like that.

HEALING SPOT?
POSTAL HINGE?

It does have EIGHT in there, but that also only leaves us with ONSLAP to mix around otherwise.

STEP, ALIGN, and SPOT are all in there but leave you with LAINGHO, STHOPE, and LAINGHE, respectively.

genital shop

there are 32 2 word combos and none of them spark anything

[Vardis]

Maybe you need an external window when in curse mode to get that red glow. :)

[br00f]

Originally posted by ffrotty:

Originally posted by Varsoon:

HEALING SPOT?
POSTAL HINGE?

It does have EIGHT in there, but that also only leaves us with ONSLAP to mix around otherwise.

STEP, ALIGN, and SPOT are all in there but leave you with LAINGHO, STHOPE, and LAINGHE, respectively.

genital shop

there are 32 2 word combos and none of them spark anything

relevant username lol

[br00f]

the Mora Jai box that has 4 blue tiles in the throne room of the blue prince, i dont see how it can be solved to match the bookshop grid. from L to R top to bottom, it has BLUE, BLACK, BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, GREY, BLUE, GREY, BLUE. could be another somewhere that can

[MANEATER]

Has anyone tried drafting rooms to match the 3x3 grid of books during a daily run?

Most of the colors match rooms that can be generated (blue, purple, orange, green). There are even a few black rooms (e.g.: Throne Room, Treasure Trove).

I guess the only one that would stump me is the gray book. There's no gray rooms, right? I guess it could represent the Bookshop position. Or maybe the Aquarium would suffice since it's technically every color.

[Doombringer]

Gray could be empty too...

[MANEATER]

Just thought of this.... Gray could also be the Antechamber as well? Lots of combinations to try!

[MANEATER]

Actually I take back what I said about the Antechamber. I think it actually counts as a blue room. And also I don't think there are any green rooms that can spawn to the right of the antechamber, where a green room would need to go.

If laying out a grid of rooms to match the books is a real solution, then it doesn't involve the Antechamber as the "gray" book/room.

[Exas4000]

Originally posted by MANEATER:

Actually I take back what I said about the Antechamber. I think it actually counts as a blue room. And also I don't think there are any green rooms that can spawn to the right of the antechamber, where a green room would need to go.

If laying out a grid of rooms to match the books is a real solution, then it doesn't involve the Antechamber as the "gray" book/room.

Cloister? aquarium. did not knew about trove/throne, since i haven't drafted these yet. Me and my friends play together and he saw the book pattern

[MANEATER]

Originally posted by Exas4000:

Originally posted by MANEATER:

Actually I take back what I said about the Antechamber. I think it actually counts as a blue room. And also I don't think there are any green rooms that can spawn to the right of the antechamber, where a green room would need to go.

If laying out a grid of rooms to match the books is a real solution, then it doesn't involve the Antechamber as the "gray" book/room.

Cloister? aquarium. did not knew about trove/throne, since i haven't drafted these yet. Me and my friends play together and he saw the book pattern

Oh, that's right. I was trying to think of green rooms without windows (since I don't believe one can spawn to the right and left of the Antechamber). I forgot about Cloister because I have the Draxus upgrade, which turns it into a red room.