Escape the 80s

This page contains hints for the puzzles contained in the game Escape the 80s.

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Love Hearts

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Four out of the five love hearts contain common phrases found on love hearts but they have been changed somehow.

There is help to decipher the phrases in the text above. Have they have been encoded is key to working out the fifth.

The green love heart says "Be Happy", the orange one "I Love You" all the letters have been shifted. Work out by how many letters and apply it to the grey one in the middle.

The letters have all been shifted by 7 down the alpahbet so you need to undo this. Move M back up 7 plaves to F, V back to O etc... The final answer is 48.

Movies

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Complete the crossword using the clues.

Pick out the letters highlighted.

Rearrange the letters to spell a number.

The number is 31.

Pac Man

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The Pac Man along the bottom of the game hold they key.

They are giving you directions to follow.

Start with the Pac Man in the middle of the game and work your way around the board following the directions along the bottom.

Foloowing the directions given, and collecting the letters you pass along the way, spells FORTY SIX.

Polaroids

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Place the images into the correct poloroid.

The arrows hold the key.

Pick the letters out the arrows point to and spell a number. The two arrow colours split the two word answer up to help.

The letters spell TWENTY FOUR.

Dominoes

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The Domino placement is key.

Each letter has one or two dominoes placed purposefully above or below the letter.

The letter D has a total of 10 below it.

The total of 10 below D tells you to go down the alphabet 10 times to N. The total of 6 above O tells you to go up 6 to i. Continuing this gives you nineteen.

Monopoly

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The house placement is key.

The number of houses on each property is important.

The 3 houses on Oxford Street - F.

The number of houses tells you which letter in the property name to take. For Regent Street, there are two houses to take the E. Doing this for each property gives the letters F, E, I and V. Rearranged these spell five.

Pictionary

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Focus on what is drawn bottom left.

The arrow helps. Say what you see.

There are four cups of tea.

There are four cups of tea, four tea, forty.

Poker

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The cards are key.

Each card has been picked carefully to give a five letter word.

Each card is one letter, the ace of hearts = H.

The ace of hearts tells you to take the first letter from hearts, for the two of hearts, take the second letter and so on. This gives you the letters h, e, r, t and e. Rearranged this gives three.

Scrabble

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Focus on the word solution.

How many points?

The board is symmetrical.

Scoring the word solution (and using the fact the board is symmetrical) gives the solution. Each letter is worth 1 with the L and second O being on triple letter score spaces. This gives 1 + 1 + (1x3) + 1 + 1 + 1 + (1x3) + 1 = 12.