can't swing the chandelier or get the sphere back from the book.

[MechroJester]

so ive been stuck for hours and finally cracked and looked it up. the walk through mentions for the 3rd ending to take out the cube from the book and then go over and swing the chandelier. only i used the sphere in the book not the cube and can not get it back and the track ball thing that swings the chandelier wont budge. have i missed something. or have i broke the game?

[rolandoftheeld]

The metal object from the book has nothing to do with the chandelier. The trackball doesn't move very much at all. Try to drag one way, hold for a second, then drag the other way, hold, and repeat. It can be tricky but it's simple once you get the hang of it.

[[HEL] hikari]

The chandelier swinging is really a small amount. You'll know it's started doing it because the camera switches from focusing on the control to focusing on the chandelier. It took me a while to realise nudging it around was even doing something.

[Kamamura]

Yeah, I consider this one to be a minor design foul. It does not really translate well from the touch controls to the mouse.

[[GA] Roachy]

Oh my god. I would have never figured this out. That's a bit more than a "minor" design foul IMO. Not sure I would have figured it out even if I hadn't been using a mouse.

Been ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around trying to make any progress on finding the second artifact for at least 4 or 5 hours. This is also a very hard thing to search for help on without getting spoiled all to hell.

Would have been much better if there were any sort of feedback or animation on that gold thing. Like if it rolled around in place like as a trackball or something. Or even if there were some of that UV paint stuff on the ball and the lamp, to trigger some sort of idea on what to do with it besides click it furiously and in vain. Anything!

[RedneckDuker]

I'm so glad i found this. I've been lost so long. I tried that metal thing on the railing for soo long and because i never saw it move, like everything else does in these games, I figured i messed something.

[Robin Zechs]

Thank you for pointing this out. I was trying to knock over the safe but since the trackball did not do all that much I tried everything else. Apparently I should have clicked, hold the clicked trackball, swing left to right and start moving it into a circle.

[Offsides]

Thanks for this! I also found lowering my frame rate in the nvidia control panel helped as well. This happened in the Room One where you had to set your frame rate to 24 in order to move a similar object

[maruca]

If anyone is playing this on an iPad/tablet and not on steam (I'm playing these games on both on PC qnd iPad and normally find it much more immersive with the hand than the mouse - meaning playing on the iPad ): it's even worse on a tablet

I ended up on pushing down hard, leaving my finger on the orb and circling my finger at a steady pace (but NOT too fast!) to gain momentum and speed. Then I swung it in the direction I needed... It barely moved at all until quite a bit of time...

Not well designed at all!

Thx for this thread and the help evrryone!

[Notiophilus]

Agreed! Replaying for the first time in a while to get the third and fourth endings, and while I got the rest of it without hints, I was stuck here. You can see the ball move just barely, which made me think that the frame around it was some sort of locking mechanism I had to remove before I could move the ball properly. Ended up finding this thread.

In a jankier game it wouldn't be a problem, but the puzzle design / player communication in this game is generally so good that I trusted the interface, and that's what got me. If The Room Three's is ever updated again, devs, I'd strongly advise making the ball move more.

[Lord of the Wifi]

Bumping this to the top because of this very frustrating 'puzzle'. The golden thing on the railing does't move *at all*, not even a fraction. The chandelier just keeps swinging back and forth a little, the camera never focuses on it at all.

How am I supposed to solve this 'puzzle'? The replies above didn't help at all unfortunately. How Fireproof Games has put this ridiculous thing in their (otherwise awesome) games is beyond me. Hopefully someone will have the solution for me.

EDIT: Just tried it again for 10 minutes. The chandelier only moves back and forth slightly, never picking up 'speed', the camera never focuses on the chandelier either.