Key & Compass presents:
Trapped in a Small Room
by Anthony

In this small, simple, semi-surreal escape game, you play as someone in darkness. You're carrying a lemon and a flashlight with a wire sticking out of it. Once you get some light, escape from the small room.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.

Map
Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Walkthrough

Darkness

> i. turn on flashlight. (doesn't work)

> put wire in lemon. (And now there's light.)

Small Room

> x me. (uhh, I'm sure you're not a broken flashlight.)

> x lemon. x flashlight. x wire.

> open trap-door. (locked)

> w. (The trap-door is to the west? Okay, fine.)

> s.

Window

Nothing here. Window is bricked-up.

> n. e.

Shelf

> x book. take key. x key.

> w. n.

Brick Wall

Nothing here but "The cake is a lie" on the wall.

> s.

Small Room

> unlock trap-door with key. (Click. But it doesn't open.)

> open trap-door. (Now it's open.)

> w.

Basement

> read note. (It says go up from the small room.)

> e. u.

Hole

Oddly, you don't just go up again or enter the exit.

> take exit.

You arrive at a roof-top bakery where a baker explains everything and gives you free cake.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

A baker explains everything at the very end of the game.

Inventory

a lemon. You're carrying it.

Put the wire into the lemon to turn the flashlight into a working flashlight.
Once the flashlight is working, it doesn't matter what you do with the lemon. You can't eat it.

a flashlight. You're carrying it.

Put the wire into the lemon to turn the flashlight into a working flashlight. Now you can see and go; the game won't let go anywhere until the flashlight is working.

a wire. It's inside the flashlight.

Put the wire into the lemon to turn the flashlight into a working flashlight.
Once the flashlight is working, it doesn't matter what you do with the wire.

a purple book. It's at Shelf.

Read it. Take the key from it.

a key. It's in the purple book.

The key unlocks the trap-door in the Small Room.

a note. It's in the Basement.

Read it. It tells you to go up from the Small Room. Which, by the way, you can do as soon as you have a working flashlight.

an exit. It's in the Hole.

Take it to escape and win the game.

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