The Gramophone Escape
As you sit there listening to your streaming music service and/or mp3 iPod digital music device thingumy some of the older ones amongst you may remember something called a "Compact Disc" that music used to come on - you may even still be using one as a coaster for your morning coffee. Anyway, these were rubbish as you had to go out (outside of the house!) and actually buy them - you couldn't download them! Wow. Rubbish hey? And if you are particularly ancient and decrepit you may even remember listening to music on something called a "cassette tape". Not only did you have to leave the house to buy these but you couldn't even hear the music on them anyway as them were really 'hissy'! Can you imagine that? Anyway, before even this piece of ancient history, people in mud huts and caves would listen to music recorded on platters of plastic, called 'records', on a device called a 'Gramophone'. These were terrible as not only did you have to leave your cave to buy them, and they were 'hissy', but also the music would skip and distort if dinosaurs and woolly mammoths walked by. Arrrgggh!.

Anyway, so as you can see, escaping gramophones is entirely a good thing, and the goal of The Gramophone Escape, a new escape the room game, makes a whole heap of sense. Unless, that is, you live in a cave, away from dinosaur and woolly mammoth habitats, you like to leave the confines of your cave once in a while, and you don't mind poor sound quality. For you guys, this game will be a bit of a mystery [subbed by Victoria V].

Entry 3394, Thursday, July 10th 2008, Filed In Games
Rating(25%)

Chimps

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YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Comment 1, Thursday, July 10th 2008 09:50:42 AM

Chimps

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IM FIRST..................................WOO Hooooooo

Comment 2, Thursday, July 10th 2008 09:51:06 AM

Stacey

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Grabbed this one off of another site... Its not especially difficult... A well made game.

Welcome back Graeme. Hope you had a nice vacation (its no longer a holiday... <wink wink>)
I suppose it must have been strange celebrating the 4th over here =0)

Comment 3, Thursday, July 10th 2008 09:52:47 AM

Chimps

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hmmm im dead after one click of a hoover

Comment 4, Thursday, July 10th 2008 09:53:44 AM

Myuhinny

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COOL another one time to check it out!!!

Comment 5, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:05:29 AM

Guybrush

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6th ..so close....

Comment 6, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:27:12 AM

Guybrush

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hımm maybe I'm fifth

Comment 7, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:27:32 AM

Guybrush

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Ah I died! Be aware of the

HINT: (click box to highlight/fade)
snake<\hint>

Comment 8, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:29:42 AM

Jim

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SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
I've found everything except the last number on the Russian band channel.

The anti-venom
SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
is the "card" thing with yellow on it

Comment 9, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:34:57 AM

Guybrush

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got

HINT: (click box to highlight/fade)
4 records,remote,thing from the pocjet,2 keys(used)

Comment 10, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:36:16 AM

Guybrush

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Hıım yes the thing cured me,why that hat changes color?

Comment 11, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:39:03 AM

Guybrush

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SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
enter the numbers with records in alphabatical order. TV is not needed!

Comment 12, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:51:08 AM

Fairyhedgehog

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Hey, Graham, enough of the mud huts and caves! My family had a wind-up gramophone when I was a kid and we were the only people in our block of flats who still had music when there was a power cut.

It did hiss. The needles were brass and about a centimetre or two long and the vynyl discs used to scratch really easily. But it was music and it didn't need electricity so how cool is that?

Comment 13, Thursday, July 10th 2008 12:03:44 PM

Andiar

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Hint for numbers
SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
match the discs to the colours of the rainbow

Comment 14, Thursday, July 10th 2008 12:49:53 PM

Gnnnaw

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How did u get the cure for snakebite (venom)? Got bitten and died like five times...

:-(

Comment 15, Thursday, July 10th 2008 01:06:26 PM

Gnnnaw

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six times...

Comment 16, Thursday, July 10th 2008 01:20:48 PM

Gnnnaw

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oh..found it...

Comment 17, Thursday, July 10th 2008 01:26:46 PM

Elise

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don't just enter the code....you will die for cheating lol

Comment 18, Thursday, July 10th 2008 01:55:52 PM

Misty

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how many records are there?

Comment 19, Thursday, July 10th 2008 02:02:07 PM

Gnnnaw

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Elise, tried that too...gosh I´m so dead by now...never been dead´r...*lol*...

My son woke up (just like that, as they do) he´s two and asked me, really adult-like if I could paus that playing and play some with him...*lmao*...

Comment 20, Thursday, July 10th 2008 02:59:37 PM

Silvermoonj46

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I hate pixel hunting :(

Comment 21, Thursday, July 10th 2008 03:26:17 PM

Julia

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I have 4 records, the remote and I've used 1 key. Now I can't find anything. I'm afraid to click the vacuum since I can't find the antidote. Any help?

Comment 22, Thursday, July 10th 2008 03:30:10 PM

Julia

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Power of posting hard at work. Found the antidote :)

Comment 23, Thursday, July 10th 2008 03:34:45 PM

Xavea

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I can't find the 4th record. I have
SPOILER: (click box to reveal/hide)
one from under a stool on the starting screen, one from under a stool in the screen with the gramophone, and on from a locked cabinet by the gramophone


Can anyone direct me towards the right area? Hints would be lovely.

Comment 24, Thursday, July 10th 2008 03:45:55 PM

Julia

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Xavea, check floor areas. Maybe near the front door...

Comment 25, Thursday, July 10th 2008 03:55:05 PM

Joy

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I must be very old... I remember "Eight Tracks" and then the adaptors that you could fit a cassette tape in!

Comment 26, Thursday, July 10th 2008 04:32:31 PM

HunterThompsonWanabe

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Graeme --

This game proves the need for a 4th voting category: "Makes Harry Potter Maze Look Good."

Comment 27, Thursday, July 10th 2008 05:29:17 PM

Cyberjar88

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I think the "Graeme-ophone" looks more like a Victrola. But that's just my opinion.

Comment 28, Thursday, July 10th 2008 05:46:42 PM

Zog

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You forgot the 8-track player

Comment 29, Thursday, July 10th 2008 09:20:19 PM

Via

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Bahaha I like it how if you press tab a little box comes up saying "no cheating please :-)"

Comment 30, Thursday, July 10th 2008 10:41:45 PM

Star

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Freedom!

Comment 31, Friday, July 11th 2008 04:08:21 PM

Gigi

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Thanks for the very hilarious intro Graeme, as a cavewoman it really made me laugh, brilliant!

Comment 32, Friday, July 11th 2008 06:13:29 PM

Kanashii

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... But I love records and cassettes... and I'm only 17... D: And Zog, YUS. I LOVE 8-tracks.

Comment 33, Saturday, July 12th 2008 12:53:17 AM

The Great Dane

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"You are dead because of cheating"!!! Why oh why did you tell us to try to use tab, Via. I'm not gonna play it again. I'm sure I can sleep without finishing it the right way. :)

Comment 34, Sunday, July 13th 2008 07:20:02 AM

Draghkar

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Where is the key to the third cabinet?

Comment 35, Monday, July 21st 2008 04:45:30 PM

Witchrock

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If anybody besides me is trying to play this now the link here isn't working but this one is http://www.kongregate.com/games/innu/the-gramophone-escape

Comment 36, Thursday, September 4th 2008 05:34:59 PM

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