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An open cardboard box on a cutting mat holding a drawn snowman riddle card, with a cardboard mascot peeking in, a smiling lightbulb above and stickers on the lid

Out of the Box

Brain teasers and memory

By Felt Tip Games · 143 plays

Thirty cardboard riddles where everything on screen is fair game: drag words out of the question, tip the box, close the lid, borrow the hint bulb. Each solve sticks a sticker on the lid.

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About the game

We usually draw everything with felt tips. This time we swapped the pens for cardboard and masking tape and made a box full of riddles where the obvious answer is usually not quite it. Every riddle is a card inside an open box: a one-line question on tape and a little scene to poke at. The trick might be in the picture, in the words of the question, in the hint bulb or the riddle number, on the lid, in the box itself, or with Flap, the cardboard mascot who reacts to everything you try. There are 30 riddles in three boxes of ten, from gentle warm-ups to properly sneaky ones. Tap, drag, hold, double-tap, swipe, rub, shake, wait, zoom, tip the box by its walls so loose things roll, or close the lid. After every solve a short line explains why the trick was fair, and a sticker goes on the box lid. Stuck? A free nudge unlocks after 20 seconds, and for one lightbulb an animated hand shows you the answer. You can also skip a riddle for two bulbs and come back to it later.

How to play

Read the question, then poke around. Tap, drag, hold or swipe things in the scene. The words of the question, the hint bulb, the riddle number, the lid, the box and Flap can all be part of the answer. Tip the box by dragging its side walls or with the arrow keys. Zoom with the mouse wheel, a pinch, or + and -. Tap the bulb for hints: the nudge is free after 20 seconds, the answer costs 1 bulb and skipping costs 2. You start with 3 bulbs and earn one for each new solve. Escape or the pause button opens the menu.

Devices
desktop, mobile, tablet
Orientation
any

Content notes

Some riddles ask you to wait, hold or shake, and one asks you to mute the sound.

Screenshots

The result slip after riddle 5, "Get in politely.": three stars, the line "A polite knock is two quick taps: knock knock." and a new door sticker on the box lid.The whole cardboard box tipped to one side in riddle 9, "Get the ball in the hole.", so the golf ball rolls downhill towards the flag.The hint for riddle 27, "It's night. Where's the moon?": an animated hand demonstrates a drag while Flap's speech bubble explains the solution.The level select with three riddle boxes. The first two lids are full of stickers and every riddle has three stars. The third box, Fragile, is just opening.On a phone, the hint bulb has been dragged out of the top bar into a dark room towards an empty lamp, in riddle 10, "It's too dark to read."Box 1 finished: a slip reads "This side up is done" above a lid full of ten stickers, and Flap is celebrating in a party hat.

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