Bug with Gramophone puzzle.

[CONDOR V]

Bug with Gramophone puzzle: In the small drawer, can move the symbols but cannot release in the desired symbol. When I release it, it just reverts to the button looking symbol. The only way I can leave it in the desired symbol is to right click when on said symbol and exit drawer.
Then do back to the drawer and in second symbol repeat the above step.
But after doing this three times and having the right symbol combination - I have checked with videos that it is correct - the game does not trigger the next mechanism in order to proceed with puzzle. Also in the videos I have watched the game should make a clicking sound as you scroll through the different symbols. Not the case here. Have verified my game files.

[CONDOR V]

No one answering - Is it safe assume the game is dead and abandoned by devs?

[chloros]

I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question, actually. I played the game on my own without any solution whatsoever yesterday, from start to finish, including of course that gramophone puzzle you're mentioning since that was the "hardest" part.

There's not even the need to check out a video online, or a guide for that matter. But it is true that your hint to solve this puzzle is inside the little compartment on the front face of the gramophone and you might be tempted to go online if you just proceed from one puzzle to the next—and if you never played any music in your life. It should look like a piece of paper neatly placed next to the deceased's vinyl disc. The trick to trigger the mechanism is quite simple, really. Not sure what your problem is, though. Selecting the adequate symbols, maybe?

[CONDOR V]

Thanks. I understand the puzzle. Basically after I select the right symbols, the next step of the puzzle does not trigger for me.

[chloros]

Did you try an alternative combination? If you understand the puzzle you probably noticed that there should not be any particular order to the symbols, but I fear that the game's code might just be set in a determinist way, i.e. only a particular order of the adequate symbols can trigger the next step of the puzzle, and I just happened to use it during my playthrough.

If you have some sort of way to do screenshots on your computer, I'd appreciate if you could share a shot of your symbols from your gameplay. Sometimes, 'the devil is in the details'.

[The Nothing]

I'm having the exact same problem. I used 3 clues to solve this part of the puzzle and it put the symbols in the exact same order I did, but it would not recognise the pattern when I did it. it theen unlocked the panel where I am supposed to dial in 78T but there is just no way I can make the correct selection with the mouse. Is there a fix for this?

[fhg1893]

Same problem. It's bugged.

The first part is the three rests which have to be combined to form a quarter rest. Trivial puzzle, couldn't solve it because I can't get the dials spun into place. Not because I don't know what I'm doing, but because the controls are broken.

SIX clues to solve the stupid gramophone, listening to the same minor-key looping suspense music, all because of stupid, broken controls.

[zaphodikus]

Solved 1st time for me, my trouble was the weird use of a toggle power switch, which in reality was logical. The game controls are terrible, some hotspots like when you meet the proprietress of the ginger Cat, I had to click just below the hotspot to start talking to here. I stood in the restaurant for ages clicking madly all over. Clicking on the lowers point of the hotspot for the owner was the trick, other puzzles are equally clunky.

Not a great game, not trash, but not worth it as a game in a catalog of better games.

[Tanja012]

chloros の投稿を引用：

I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question, actually. I played the game on my own without any solution whatsoever yesterday, from start to finish, including of course that gramophone puzzle you're mentioning since that was the "hardest" part.

There's not even the need to check out a video online, or a guide for that matter. But it is true that your hint to solve this puzzle is inside the little compartment on the front face of the gramophone and you might be tempted to go online if you just proceed from one puzzle to the next—and if you never played any music in your life. It should look like a piece of paper neatly placed next to the deceased's vinyl disc. The trick to trigger the mechanism is quite simple, really. Not sure what your problem is, though. Selecting the adequate symbols, maybe?

I feel so stupid! I've been thinking and thinking and even after seeing the answer.. I still don't get it. normally I do pretty well at puzzles, but here I'm dumbfounded.. can someone please explain how the answer makes sense? it's making me frustratet not knowing why.

[zaphodikus]

I was never convinced the game puzzles were terribly logical. So many games rely on a context that the player often does not have, puzzling the context will drive you nuts.
Try playing "Day of the Tentacle" or a "Monkey Island" game, and you will know what I mean.

[Tanja012]

actually I do feel that those games(not logical) but at least made sense in a weird way.. it's just I have no idea at all how anyone can get to this answer from that sheet of paper! someone here said that it was very easy to figure out.. that makes me very curious what the "easy" part is..

[yoda]

I can't get the handle in the drawer. In a blink of an eye the camera switches from the top to the front of the drawer and you can't fetch the handle. When you click at the front of the drawer the camera switches to the cupboard underneath.

[zaphodikus]

Some (many) of the interactions you need to try get the camera to reposition. The quality control on this game left a lot to be desired for me too.