1982 (2014)
> x car key (@ Study)
The key to the Barchetta.
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Let's look at keys! (Yes, I can't believe I'm doing this one either.)
"Key" icon by Atif Arshad from Noun Project (CCBY3.0)
1982 (2014)
> x car key (@ Study)
The key to the Barchetta.
Acid Rain (2021)
> x car key (@ Inside Your Car)
It's the key to your clapped-out Holden.
> x brass key (@ Front Porch)
It's a tarnished brass key. It looks like an antique.
> x red key (@ Southern Ledge)
> x white key (@ Laboratory)
It's a white metal key. There's nothing on it to indicate what it opens.
> x silver key (@ Ledge)
The Acorn Court (1997)
> x wooden key (@ Court Yard)
A very small wooden key that seems to have been carved by hand, perhaps by a previous prisoner.
The Adam and Eve Project (2017)
> x pipe (@ [Adam] Bedroom)
Advent Door (2020)
> x brassy key (@ The Study)
Totally ordinary brass housekey. It's definitely not yours, though.
> x old key (@ A Collapsing Corner)
It's an old-fashioned long iron key.
Advent Mirror (2022)
> x key (@ Closet (verso))
It's a long-barreled gold key. The bow forms a monogram: an elegantly swooping capital "R".
Aesthetic Deletions (2003)
> x key (@ The hallway on the lower deck)
It's a large key. The fob reads "Storage Area".
Ailihphilia (2018)
> x YE KEY (@ Scrap Arcs)
Engraved YE KEY, it clearly looks important. It's carved with...well, roses, or ... you're not sure. Maybe it does not lead to Ye Fey or Ye Ley, but you haven't seen too many locked places, and its label also is a relief there aren't a whole bunch to chase down. You've been running around enough so far.
Alchemist's Gold (2022)
> x key (@ Den)
All Quiet on the Library Front (1995)
> x key (@ Lobby)
This key is on a flourescent yellow keychain, which is, in turn, attached to a rather large chunk of wood. The whole thing is awkward, and difficult to hide within a backpack (not that you have one with you) or a pocket.
Amnesia (2003)
> x ordinary key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
A quite ordinary key it opens the ordinary chest.
> x red key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
A red key.
> x green key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
A green key
> x crystal key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
A crystal key.
> x blue key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
A blue key.
> x main key (@ the second room in my puzzle)
That stupid pesky key you were looking for the whole time it lets you out of this stupid place.
And yet it moves (2014)
> x key (@ Garden)
A key, a little chunk of metal, dull even in the sun. [if held, add:] The key rolls around your palm. It has words on the side that say "I am the key to unlocking the world."
Annoyed Undead (1999)
> x brass key (@ High Priest's Room)
Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (2006)
> x steel key (@ Bathroom)
This is a nondescript steel door key. Gosh, I wonder what it unlocks?
> x brass key (@ South Wall)
It's a small key. Made of brass.
Apartment F209 (1997)
> x car keys (@ Closet)
[Insert sarcastic description here]
The Apprentice (2006)
> x black key (@ By the cottage)
It's a small black key.
Arborea (2022)
> x ignition (@ At the top of the Bulldozer)
The key is attached by a long chain to the driver's belt. You're not going to be able to take it, but you could turn it. The ignition is currently on.
> x keys (@ Woodlands Simulation Room)
There must be about fifty different sizes and shapes, including hexagonal, octagonal, square, heptagonal, triangular, ten-sided and even two-sided (though we tend to call those "screwdrivers").
Archie's Birthday - Chapter 1: Reggie's Gift (2005)
> x key (@ Basement)
It is the school's master key. Supposedly, this key will open any door in the school. Personally, you're only interested in one.
Art D's Next Batch Adventure (1997)
> examine key (@ Tiny room)
The key is old but strangely unrusted.
Art D's Third Batch Adventure (1997)
> examine key (@ Old bare hut)
On the key is printed a tiny version of the town seal.
Asendent (2000)
> x key (@ Specious loby)
its an ordinry key. the tag says EXETIVE WASHROM. Kep it safe its not yors!
Augmented Fourth (2000)
> x copper key (@ Magic Lab)
The copper key is two inches long and has a single groove in it.
> x silver key (@ Opera Hall)
The key is unusually small, about the length of your pinky, and it has an intricate collection of grooves and ridges.
Awakening (2009)
> x brass key (@ Inside the Gatehouse)
It is dull, stained, and quite large.
Babel (1997)
> x metal key (@ Records II)
It's a regular key marked "RESIDENTIAL MASTER".
Ballymun Adventure (2006)
> x large key (@ Room 12)
It's a large key with the number 19 engraved on the top.
> x small key (@ Room 1)
A key with the number 13 engraved on it.
> x silver key (@ Room 4)
It looks like a key to a filing cabinet.
> x brass key (@ School kitchen)
It's a shiny brass key with the letters SR engraved on it. I wonder which door it opens?
> x red capped key (@ Room 13)
It's a small key with a red plastic cap.The letters CR are engraved on it. Now all you have to do is find the right lock!
Baluthar (2003)
> x silver key (@ Dungeon)
Basilica de Sangre (2018)
> x keys (@ Entrance)
The Sexton is carrying some big iron keys.
> x large brass key (@ The Mother Superior's Office)
A large brass key.
Berrost's Challenge (2008)
> x key (@ Tavern)
Its a skeleton key made of brass. It looks too small to be a door key.
The Bibliophile (2014)
> x bookstore key (@ Among the Books)
It's a modern key.
> x store key (@ Cramped Store)
It's a dirty but modern key.
Birmingham IV (2018)
> x brass key (@ In the field of the blasted oak)
A large, well worn key with a trefoil bow, a long shaft and intricate wards.
> x heavy key (@ Octagonal Chamber)
Well worn, made of steel, and as large as a pocket-pistol.
> x silver key (@ Octagonal Chamber)
A delicately worked silver key.
Biscuit (2001)
> x brass key (@ Joe's bedroom)
A small brass key.
> x metal key (@ kitchen)
A small metal key.
> x rusty key (@ model railway area)
A rusty steel key.
Blackness (2013)
> x key (@ Long Hallway)
This is the key to the janitor closet.
Brain of the Night Guest (2011)
> x hundred-year-old typewriter key (@ Balcony)
It's the "I" key.
BSE (1996)
> x brass key (@ The Green Calf)
A small, complex brass key with a label tied to it.
Bugged (2001)
> x small iron key (@ Startroom)
It is a small iron key.
Bullhockey 2: The Return of The Leather Whip (2019)
> x apartment key (@ Loft Bedroom)
It's your "house" key. It's stamped with "#9".
> x utility key (@ Loft Bedroom)
It's a long key, but you don't know what it unlocks. So you use it as a tool to pry stuff with.
> x car key (@ Loft Bedroom)
It's the key to your beat-up silver car. It's just as beat-up as the car.
> x mailbox key (@ Loft Bedroom)
One of those long USPS keys, with a "#9" stamped on it.
> x copper key (@ Lockridge Yard)
It is small and made of copper, like most copper keys. It goes to Judith's backyard gate.
> x rusty old key (@ Convenient Storage Area)
Rusty and old.
> x little bronze key (@ Gymnasium)
Small and shiny, like bronze.
> x odd key (@ Master Bedroom)
It's odd, because it's rather long and gold-colored--you've never seen a key like it. There is a metal ring looped through the little hole in the top, but what the key was attached to may have been ripped off of it.
> x brand new key (@ Big Closet)
It's small, with a nickel-sized handle, barely any ridges, and made of a cheap metal, like it belongs to a pair of roller-skates.
> x package box key (@ Mailbox Room)
It is a small metal key with a tag attached to it, bearing a message.
Bullhockey! (2018)
> x car key (@ Loft Bedroom)
As beat up as your car, to which it belongs.
> x apartment key (@ Loft Bedroom)
It's your shiny apartment key. It's nicked in many places.
> x mailbox key (@ Loft Bedroom)
One of those long USPS keys, with a "9" stamped on it.
> x utility key (@ Loft Bedroom)
It's your "all purpose key", meaning you use it as a handy prying tool--you really have no idea what it goes to.
> x silver key (@ Living Room)
It is silver. It looks like one of the keys that you and Natalie were given when you moved in. You figure it must be hers.
> x tiny key (@ Back Room)
It is a tiny, shiny metal key that would probably go to a drawer or chest somewhere.
> x large steel key (@ Back Room)
Large and made of steel. Thus "large steel key".
> x white key (@ Back of Trailer)
Looks like your basic little white key. Might go to the door under which you found it. Subtle.
> x ponderous key (@ Upstairs Bedroom)
It's rather ponderous, like the kind that goes into padlocks.
> x white key (@ Exercise Room)
It is a strange white key made of what appears to be alabaster. You can't imagine what it must go to.
Cacophony (2009)
> x apartment key (@ Work Room)
A small, simple, standard key.
Campus Invaders (2022)
> x car key (@ Meeting Room)
With this key, you can open Dr Sturgeon's car and retrieve the battery needed to operate the projector.
Captain Cutter's Treasure (2021)
> x brass key (@ Broom Closet)
It's a small brass key, about two inches long.
> x gold key (@ Captain's Cabin)
It's a small gold key, about two inches long.
Captivity (2020)
> x key (@ A Wizard's Workshop)
The key is small, ornate, and well polished. It’s suspended on a purple ribbon.
Capture Santa! (2007)
> x small key (@ Dining Hall)
It's a small, silver key.
Carpathian Vampire (2022)
> x small key (@ Bedroom)
It looks like it would open a closet or wardrobe or something similar.
> x large key (@ Vampire's Room)
It looks like a door key.
The Chinese Room (2007)
> x key (@ The Chinese Room)
It's a key with the Chinese symbol for "key" on it. Seems a bit superfluous, really.
A Christmas Quest (2020)
> x key (@ Outside Home)
It is an old-fashioned style key, quite chunky too!
Chronicle Play Torn (2004)
> x portal key (@ Attic)
A bunch of nightshade, mandrake root, and hare's ears.
> x keys (@ Vault of keys)
They're half meter wide and two meters high wooden boards swinging on fine iron chains. Each contains hundreds of long nails with keys of various kinds on them. You have the feeling that every key needed to open a lock in the world has a copy here.
> x wire key (@ Vault of keys)
It is a thin iron wire, religiously bent to a silhouette of an antique key.
Citizen of Nowhere (2019)
> x key (@ Desolate Beach)
An old iron mortise key.
Clusterflux (2019)
> x apartment key (@ Dirt Lot)
This is the key to the red door that lets you in your apartment.
> x old key (@ Very White Kitchen)
This is a small, old key with the word 'shed' written on it in tiny, tiny letters.
The Coast House (2001)
> x old house key (@ Front of House)
The key to the coast house, given to you by your grandfather ages ago.
> x small key (@ Den)
Well now, it's a small key. There must be a small lock around here someplace.
Coke Is It! (1999)
> x keys (@ Inside Building)
It's just a normal-looking set of keys.
The Colour Pink (2005)
> x gold key (@ Inside the shop)
This small key is golden coloured.
Comp00ter Game (2000)
> x key (@ Starting_Room with name)
It just looks luke a regular key but it is the secrtet key you need to open the secret door. Where is the secret door?well I'm not going to tell you because if I did then it wouldn't be a secret nowwould it hahahaha that's a n old joke really tyhe secrtet door is pretty not so secret itstands out like a sore thumb.
Cragne Manor (2018)
> x brass winding key (@ Railway Platform)
A small brass key used for winding a clock.
> x aluminum key (@ Backwater Jail)
This is a small key; the kind for lockers.
> x thin steel key (@ Dusty Office)
A thin steel key with a somewhat old-fashioned look.
> x Konstantin's keys (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant, Lower Cambrian Era)
You know that they're Konstantin's because "Mein Keys" is written on the tag.
> x key from an urn (@ Cragne Family Plot)
The key is greasy with fine ash. Was it burned? Who interred this key, and why?
> x bronze key (@ The Cragne Manor's Back Garden)
> x iron key (@ The Shambolic Shack)
A hefty iron key, its wards streaked with rust.
> x Allen key (@ Tunnel Entrance)
A small, hexagonal Allen key, L-shaped, with a "6" engraved in one side, indicating it is 6 mm in diameter.
> x large brass key (@ Tiny Windowless Office)
A large and important-looking brass key. Someone wrote a two digit number on the bow. It's mostly worn off, but the first digit looks like a 3.
> x white key (@ Court)
A finger-length key, its off-white striations indicating it was carved from ivory, or bone.
> x rusty iron key (@ Study)
A small, rusty iron key.
> x small desk key (@ Library)
It probably unlocks the mahogany desk in the library.
> x splintery key (@ Basement)
This splintery wooden key looks like it's ready to fall apart at any moment.
> x ornate bronze key (@ Basement)
This old, slightly tarnished bronze key is covered in fine, lacy designs.
> x sinister iron key (@ Basement)
A heavy iron key with a sinister character. Its weight in your hands is chilling.
> x frosty blue key (@ Basement)
It's a stiff, blue key, powdered with flecks of white. It emits a frosty aura ? brrr.
> x origami key (@ Basement)
Folded out of a single piece of paper, yet unmistakeably a five-toothed key, this is a real work of art.
> x silver ivory key (@ Basement)
A gleaming silver key with a creamy ivory handle. A dark, murmuring emerald is set into the hilt.
> x red triangle key (@ Wine Cellar)
A small metal key with a red triangle etched into the handle. It's sticky and it smells like grapes.
> x ornate silver key (@ Stairway)
Cryptically inscribed and ornately engraved: the Silver Key to the Gates of Slumber.
> x long wooden key (@ Cragne Family Plot)
A long wooden key.
> x sturdy key (@ Balcony)
This key looks like it's seen some use throughout its time, yet it still looks and feels very sturdy. While it shows some slight hints of rust, it has lost very little of its original color.
> x tiny brass key (@ The Shambolic Shack)
It's too small to be the key to a door. Maybe a jewelry box, or a cabinet.
> x slimy key (@ Disheveled Studio)
A thick, acrid residue of paint, slime, and something unplaceable obscures whatever kind of key this is.
> x old iron key (@ Science Tower)
This heavy old black iron key probably unlocks something pretty important, if you had to guess.
> x ancient key (@ Curiosity Shop)
A heavy, ancient key of some dark metal. The bow is of coiling, almost slimy-looking knotwork, while the wards are slightly pointed at the ends, like gothic windows. Despite the absence of rust, it gives a sense of having never seen the light of day before now. It feels dirty even after you wipe it on your pant leg.
> x tarnished brass key (@ Station Security Room)
A tarnished brass key to the shack.
> x nasty key (@ Steeple)
A large key, nearly the length of your hand, its teeth. . . well, a row of rotted, human teeth. Etched beneath the teeth, upon the shaft of the key, is a runic script.
Crocodracula: The Beginning (2020)
> x brass key (@ Miss Lipton's Classroom)
[if untaken] It's not your bike key. It must unlock something else.[end if] It's a heavy key, for locking up something serious.> x bike key (@ Mister Sarducci's Classroom)
A tiny steel key.
The Cruise (2001)
> x key (@ Ship Entry)
It is your room key.
> x wooden key (@ Gift Shop)
It is very small and made of wood.
The Crystal Palace (2011)
> x iron key (@ kitchen)
a wrought-iron key with a plastic label.
Darkiss Chapter 1: the Awakening (2015)
> x iron key (@ Crypt)
You can use it to unlock a locked door or something similar, if you find the right keyhole.
The Day I came back (2014)
> x slippery key (@ Cemetery)
It looks like a golf cart key. You're an expert on those.
> x keys (@ Cramped Room)
A discouragingly huge number of keys.
> x unique key (@ Cramped Room)
It's made by Welbourn Inc.
The Day of the Queen (2015)
> x key (@ Potter Room)
Paul gave this to you for one of your birthdays. While he doesn't condone your habit of stealing and destroying golf carts from the course next door, he shows support. It's a skeleton key, that can open 95% of all golf carts in the world, and you've tried at least 34 models so far.
Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba (2020)
> x key (@ Tribe)
It is a wooden replica of the sun key that I had drawn in my journal. The quality of workmanship is superb.
Dr Horror's House of Terror (2021)
> x key (@ Studio Crypt)
Just a small brass key.
Dr Who and the Ribos Operation (2017)
> x temple key (@ Cubby)
A small ornately carved key
> x heavy iron key (@ Chamber Alcove)
A heavy iron key.
Dr. Death's House of Horrors (1992)
> examine copper key (@ 18th century France)
The word "SINCERITY" is engraved on it.
> examine gold key (@ European castle)
The word "CHARITY" is engraved on it.
> examine silver key (@ Graveyard)
The word "MODESTY" is engraved on it.
> examine iron key (@ African jungle)
The word "LOYALTY" is engraved on it.
> examine brass key (@ Old West town)
The word "BRAVERY" is engraved on it.
> examine steel key (@ Desert)
The word "FRIENDLY" is engraved on it.
> examine aluminum key (@ Stone cell)
The word "MERCY" is engraved on it.
> examine chrome key (@ Large room)
The word "HONESTY" is engraved on it.
> examine bronze key (@ Lumbermill)
The word "FAITHFUL" is engraved on it.
> examine lead key (@ Medieval dungeon)
The word "TOLERANCE" is engraved on it.
Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1999)
> x yellow key (@ Inside Pyramid)
It's a yellow key. Its shaft is in the shape of a triangle.
> x violet key (@ Hallway)
This key has a circular shaft.
> x green key (@ East Edge)
Its shaft is in the shape of a square.
> x blue key (@ UnFair Booth)
Its shaft is in the shape of a diamond.
> x red key (@ Dressing Room)
The key is red aluminum, toothless, and has a rectangular shaft.
Dream Pieces (2013)
> x key (@ Bedroom)
It's a normal but useful key as far as you can see.
Dreary Lands (2005)
> x small key (@ In a Wierd Oblong Room)
A small key, like one that might unlock somebody's journal, it is probably made of tarnished bronze or brass.
> x ignition key (@ In a Wierd Oblong Room)
It has rigid teeth on both sides of its short neck. The wider end which serves to be turned when the key is in the ignition is some sort of plastic and provides good gripping for your fingers. The whole thing is the color pink, as if to clue you in further that it belongs to the car you fell into, as if you wouldn't have guessed or at least tried the possibility.
Easter Egg Hunt 2020 (2020)
> x moon key (@ The Baron's Study)
The small key for the clock has an elaborately carved head that resembles a full moon ringed by strange symbols.
> x sun key (@ Laboratory)
This key has an elaborately carved head that resembles a sunburst with thirteen points.
Empty rooms (2011)
> x gray key (@ Room #2)
A typicall gray key that appeared out of nowhere, it could be usefull. Try to "unlock" something with it.
> x red key (@ Room #5)
It's a key that is shining red but it's also a little dusty at some places.
> x green key (@ Room #6)
It's a green key and it reminds you of a cucumber, this makes you hungry. Maybe you should find something to eat.
Endless Sands (2015)
> x key (@ Shed)
An ornate key that you assume is a spare for the gravedigger's house. There's a small keychain attached with the letters "G.D" on it. Wait, are those his actual initials? G.D the gravedigger?
Eruption (2009)
> x iron key (@ Village)
This is a short, heavy iron key.
Escape from Ice Station Hippo (2012)
> x large key (@ Restricted room)
This is a large, metal key. It has large ears meant to be turned easily by someone wearing gloves, since the cold outside would cause the metal to become too painful to turn the key otherwise.
Escape from the Arboretum (2002)
> x chrome key (@ on the front deck of a barge)
The key is chrome coloured. It appears to be of the backdoor variety.
> x brass key (@ up a chimney)
Closer examination reveals that it is a very ordinary small brass key.
It is quite old by all accounts.
> x yale key (@ further cellar)
Closer examination reveals that it is a very ordinary yale key.
Escape From the Mechanical Bathhouse (2020)
> x brass key (@ Lobby)
It's a brass Yale-type key.
> x silver key (@ Lobby)
It is a flat, wide key with a square aperture. It looks like the sort your grandmother used to keep on the mantlepiece, to wind the clock.
Escape from the Starship Zenon (2000)
> x steel key (@ Cell)
A steel key. Looks like it might fit a keyhole.
Escape from the Underworld (2008)
> x elevator key (@ Staff room)
A small key with a label attached reading 'Elevator Key'
> x rusty keys (@ Staff room)
There are a couple of useless rusty keys. They look like they would break if you tried to use them.
Eunice (2018)
> x house key (@ Bog Heart)
One of the five treasures: the KEY of APPRECIATION! It's a house key. The key is heavy brass and old fashioned. It rests solidly in your hand.
Everybody Loves a Parade (1997)
> x nifty key (@ Rock Museum)
It appears to fit the lock on the glass case perfectly.
Excelsior (2014)
> x key (@ Bedroom)
The black key is rather intricate.
Eye of the Inca (1992)
> examine key (@ Forgotten room)
It looks something like a large skeleton key. But it's the first one you have ever seen made of pure gold!
Ferryman's Gate (2020)
> x copper key (@ Forest Path)
It's a large copper key. It's too big to belong to padlock or chest.
Fifteen (1998)
> x keys (@ Street)
Five or so.
The First Snows of Winter (2013)
> x small key (@ Bridge)
This small metal key is rather discoloured and worn from its time spent buried in the stones, but it still looks useable.
Foo Foo (2016)
> x small key (@ Inside Get Your Nibbles)
The kind that opens a door.
> x iron key (@ The Forest)
An iron key.
FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room (2007)
> x blue key (@ Phone Booth)
It's just an average-sized blue key.
> x black key (@ Restroom)
It's just a largish key of black iron.
The Four Eccentrics (2019)
> x crystal key (@ Workshop)
[no description]> x skeleton key (@ Cryptcove)
A fairly small key carved from age-browned bone. Its tiny teeth, however, are many-jointed and look as if they would fit neatly into any lock.
Frankenstein Adventure (2004)
> x key (@ Dirt path)
You see a key that looks like it might be for a front door.
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (1997)
> x keys (@ Living room)
Your house keys. They always seem to be ending up in some hidden crevice -- Pastiche thinks they're naturally attracted to the TV remote.
Gaia, Živa, Jarilo (2020)
> x black key (@ Front Gate)
Just an unlabelled black key.
The Garlic Cage, Episode I (2012)
> x key of freedom (@ Closet)
A beautiful golden key. It gives off more light that Betelgeuse, and feels more powerful in your hands than a supernova.
Gaucho (2012)
> x keys (@ Cemetery)
The keys are made in old style: big and brass, with a large ring at the top.
Geist (2014)
> x skeleton key (@ Server Room)
A true skeleton key. Ornate and, quite literally, made of some kind of bone.
Ghost Train (2003)
> x brass key (@ Railway Track)
A old brass key, Marked. "Southern Railways."
> x rusty key (@ Signal Box)
An old rusty key marked "Disused Line."
> x black iron key (@ Black Railway Carriage No:7)
A long black key.
Gnu in the Zoo (2016)
> x black key (@ Keeper's Hut)
The bow of this key has been enamelled black. It is a slightly odd shape, with two pointy bits that look a bit like horns.
> x white key (@ Keeper's Hut)
The bow and half the shaft of this key have been coated in white plastic, or possibly enamel, and made to look like ivory.
> x red key (@ Keeper's Hut)
The bow of this key has been enamelled red. It is a slightly odd shape, with two pointy bits that look a bit like horns.
> x green key (@ Keeper's Hut)
This is one of the smaller keys. At one point the whole thing was painted green, but the paint has worn off most of the blade. Some wag has drawn little semicircles on it to resemble scales.
> x yellow key (@ Keeper's Hut)
The bow of this key is mainly solid, with a hole for the keyring in one corner. A piece of yellow, furry material has been stuck around it.
> x brown key (@ Keeper's Hut)
This is one of the smaller keys. Its bow has been coated with a material that looks brown from a distance, but on closer inspection the colour is built up from flecks of all sorts of different earth tones. It has a feathery texture.
Goldilocks is a FOX! (2002)
> x brass key (@ In the kitchen)
It's rather small and battered looking.
> x tiny metal key (@ In the cellar)
There's nothing very much I can say about it except that it's tiny, metal, and a key.
Gourmet Gaffe (2011)
> x key (@ The Queen's Dungeon)
A profoundly inconspicuous key.
Grooverland (2021)
> x winding key (@ Painful Purchases)
This is an old-time key used to wind some kind of spring-operated mechanism. The handle is shaped like a bee.
> x creaky key (@ Doña Villar's Tango Temptations)
This key exudes an unmistakable aura of creakiness.
Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets (2017)
> x deathshead key (@ The entryway)
A tarnished copper key, its head in the shape of a skull, is lying in the dust on the ground, presumably lost by its owner.
Halothane (1999)
> x small key (@ Laboratory)
A nondescript small key, made of some indeterminate metal.
> x room key (@ Antechamber, in the Aviators Saloon)
A smooth, small key of the sort popular ten years ago.
> x golden key (@ Chapel)
A small yet heavy golden key.
> x black key (@ Empty Room)
It's just a dark black key.
> x platinum key (@ Ward Two)
A platinum key, too small to be a door key. Perhaps it's used to open a safe-deposit box of some sort. There is no tag or serial number on it, which makes tracing it difficult.
Hangar 22 (2011)
> x house key (@ Dining Room)
Sometimes you like to pretend this is the key to the city, given to you by the Mayor himself. In reality, it's the key to your front door. You've never met the Mayor.
Happy Ever After (2000)
> x brass key (@ Hotel Topiary)
A small brass key.
> x iron key (@ Hall of Science)
A small iron key
> x gold key (@ Hall of Alchemy)
A small golden key.
Haunted House (2011)
> x key (@ Servant's quarters)
I was sure I saw a key inside the cabinet, but it seemed to have vanished with Rose's vision...
Heated (2010)
> x keys (@ your bathroom)
Hercules! (2021)
> x key (@ Labyrinth)
A large key with a skull and crossbones emblazoned on its face. There is a small inscription too (a poem?) written on the wide face of the key in strange lettering. It reads:
I shall tell you of a heX
You cannot live without
through storms and blizZards it was said
by wiZards and bY scouts
Hidden Verbiage (2018)
> x key (@ Dungeon Den)
It looks custom-built for fitting into locks.
Highland Chef (2001)
> x key (@ Kitchen)
It's nice and shiny. Quite nice of Angus to make that for you.
The Holy Grail (1989)
> x shiny key (@ North of Rift)
It's so shiny that it's obviously been well cared for.
> x crystal key (@ Broom Cupboard)
Inscribed on the shank you read - "ACME CRYSTAL KEY COMPANY."
> x rusty key (@ Brick-lined Chamber)
It's a key, and it's pretty rusty.
HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE (2014)
> x broken key (@ Reliquary)
A plexiglass key... which has snapped into two pieces and is currently unusable.
The Horror of Rylvania (1993)
> x iron key (@ Doctor's Office)
It's an iron key, intricately carved. It's fairly large - it barely fits in your hand - and heavy, for a key.
> x gold key (@ Master Bedroom)
It's a simple unadorned key, iron plated with gold. It's fairly small.
> x brass key (@ Tower Top)
The brass key is rather small, with intricate designs carved on it - a tiny dolphin's head is at the tip, and the minuscule handle is worked into the shape of a sailing ship.
> x wooden key (@ Library)
It's a small wooden key, and looks like it was carved fairly recently.
The House (2007)
> x brass key (@ Entry Closet)
Just an ordinary, small brass key.
> x gold key (@ Guest Bedroom)
Just an ordinary, small gold key.
> x iron key (@ Master Bedroom)
Just an ordinary, small iron key.
The House (2003)
> x small key (@ Secret Room)
A small, sparkling key.
> x black key (@ Computer Room)
Completely opaque.
> x dull key (@ Secret Lab)
Dull and opaque.
The House of Mystery (2018)
> x blue key (@ Living Room)
A blue key that unlocks something small and clear.
> x bedroom key (@ Backroom)
The key that unlocks the Master Bedroom. Finally.
> x firebrand key (@ Unliving Room)
"That's a spicy meatball." It unlocks the chest on the mantle piece.
I Must Play (2004)
> x gold key (@ Arcade)
It's just your everyday golden key that probably leads to wild treasures unknown. Or, maybe it's just a key to a door in the arcade.
> x brass key (@ Arcade)
It's a pretty nice brass key.
Igor's Quest (2020)
> x key (@ Parlour)
> x keys (@ Parlour)
The Impossible Bottle (2020)
> x key (@ Laundry room)
Interface (2009)
> x keys (@ Bedroom)
There are several keys on the keyring.
John's Fire Witch (1995)
> x lead key (@ Goblin Room)
The key is about two inches long and pretty thick for a key. It is made of lead; this puzzles you as you would expect a key to be made of a stronger metal.
> x cheez kee (@ Trophy Room)
The small cheez kee looks awful.
Jon Doe - Wildcard Nucleus (2019)
> x security key (@ Entrance Gate)
The King's Ball (2023)
> x small key (@ Palace Gates)
It's the key to your shop.
> x large key (@ Palace Gates)
It's a large key with an ornate bow (or head) and a large ring for hanging on the hook.
Labyrinth (2006)
> x gold key (@ A Green-Smelling Room)
It's a gold key.
Last Day of Summer (2011)
> x brass key (@ Garden)
A slender brass rod with key-teeth on one end.
Letters From Home (2000)
> x attic key (@ from a wandering workman)
A very ordinary key.
Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl (2020)
> x copper key (@ study)
It's a tiny copper key.
Lowell's Paradise (2008)
> x key (@ Park)
That's just flag talk; you were trying to keep your spirits up with a little flourish. You meant that the flag has vertical red bars at the ends, and in the middle there's a picture of a golden key on a black background. See, wasn't it more exciting the other way?
Lydia's Heart (2007)
> x cabin key (@ On the Lawn)
It’s an ordinary key — small and rather tarnished.
> x brass key (@ West End of the Hall)
The old-fashioned key is short and sturdy. The business end doesn’t have much in the way of slots and teeth.
> x shiny key (@ A Weedy Flower-Bed)
The key is so shiny it almost looks like gold rather than brass.
Maiden of the Moonlight (1996)
> x moon key (@ Manservant's Room)
The small key for the clock has an elaborately carved head that resembles a full moon ringed by strange symbols.
Man Overboard!!! (2006)
> x silver key (@ Cargo Hold)
A small metal key that appears to have fallen out of the first Mate's pocket.
Mingsheng (2004)
> x key (@ 塔 (ta3) Inside pagoda)
It is a large iron key. Most of the angular edges seem to have been worn down by passing many hands.
Moon-Shaped (2006)
> x key (@ Bottom of the Well)
Dirty from having lain at the bottom of the well.
Motel California (2011)
> x car key (@ Sun Deck)
A car key to unlock and start your van.
> x brass key (@ Room 106)
A small, brass key. About the right size and shape to fit a wall safe.
> x room key (@ Courtyard)
ust what you've been looking for - The key to Room 110.
Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (2008)
> x keys (@ Cellar)
There are several keys on the key ring.
Not Much Time (2002)
> x red key (@ Auntie's Bedroom)
This red key has a square shaped end.
> x strange key (@ Front Porch)
This is a very strange looking key. It is tiny, its teeth are mishapen and it is marked: 'GC Key'. You have no idea what that means.
Nowheresville (2022)
> x brass key (@ First Avenue East)
An ordinary key made of brass.
> x ornate key (@ Nice House)
A key covered in golden filigree.
Nudists Gone Wild (2010)
> x golden key (@ Colony entrance)
The design of the key looks suspiciously like a penis.
The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf (1997)
> x brass key (@ Your Office)
It's a small, brass key.
> x shiny key (@ Dr. Eaubooboo's office)
It's a small, shiny key.
Old Jim's Convenience Store (2019)
> x aluminum key (@ On The Porch)
It is a simple aluminum key, with no keyring attached. You got it along with all the documents pertaining to the ownership of the store.
> x silver key (@ Secret Hideout)
It is a small silver key. It is attached to a keyring. [if in crack, add:] It must have dropped from one of the iron nails on the wall; you actually spot a loose iron nail on the ground and deduce that when the nail fell down from the wall, the key then ended up in the crack.
Passenger (2004)
> x key (@ Wizard's Quarters)
A long, slender key, with carvings of waves.
Perdition's Flames (1993)
> x small key (@ Downtown)
It's small -- too small for an ordinary door lock. It's probably for a desk or some other small lock.
The Physiognomist's Office (2015)
> x key (@ Surgery)
Small, compact, bright. It looks like the key to a window.
Plane Walker (2021)
> x keys (@ The Cockpit)
It looks like these aircraft keys are required to start the plane, and to keep it flying.
> x key (@ Key Room)
A bland, plain key. It has a tag labeled "master."
> x keys (@ Key Room)
All manor of keys in a huge pile. They all somehow blend together into one mass though, so you can't get just one.
Poppet (2019)
> x copper key (@ Den)
A small copper key.
The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)
> x brass key (@ Round Cave)
A Quiet Evening at Home (2010)
> x key (@ Stoop)
your house key.
Save the Cheshire Cat! (2014)
> x key (@ Back section of the fur coats shop)
A metal key.
Search for the Sacred Stone (2005)
> examine key (@ In an airport restroom)
A small key with the number 26 etched on it. It looks like a key to one of those storage lockers.
Seasonal Apocalpyse Disorder (2020)
> x iron key (@ North of Hut)
A little key carefully molded out of iron.
> x rusty key (@ Base of Stairs)
It looks like it might open a lock.
Seeker of Magic (2019)
> x silver key (@ Deep Inside Cave)
It looks like it's made of silver.
The Seven Doctors (1998)
> x small key (@ Chess Room)
A small key, of the type used on handcuffs
Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (2020)
> x master's key (@ Hall of Feasting)
A heavy iron key on a black ribbon.
> x key (@ [creepy place])
A simple key made of [metal].
> x steel key (@ Food Court)
It was a steel key, with a round head.
Shades of Gray: An Adventure in Black and White (1992)
> x delicate key (@ Forest Glade)
The key has been delicately engraved with the phrase IN GOD WE TRUST.
> x small key (@ Woods)
The key is small and shows no signs of rust.
> x keys (@ East Cell Block)
The keys are to lock the cell doors. Perhaps they'll unlock them, as well.
The Silence of the Gods (2011)
> x iron key (@ Living Room)
Looks... bulky.
So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest (2021)
> x aluminum key (@ Helen Yublyanova's office)
It's a key for opening a wardrobe. You know because your wardrobe at home is opened with a similar key.
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh? (2014)
> x brass key (@ Bedroom)
Such a delicate little key. That's what they expected out of women in those days.
> x steel key (@ Attic)
It's an odd-looking key. It might have been fashioned specifically for this box.
The Song of the Mockingbird (2021)
> x key (@ South of the Corral; Outside the Barn; Under the Windmill)
This is the key you took from [Podge or Whitey or Felipe]. [if 1 key found] Unlike the keys you're familiar with, this one [else if 2 keys found] Like [Podge or Whitey or Felipe]'s key, it [else] Like the other two keys, it [end if] has no wards. Instead, the shaft is a cylinder about a quarter of an inch in diameter. Along the shaft are fluted grooves. At the other end, the shaft expands into a large oblong handle rather like the key for winding a clock. Just at the top of the shaft is a thin ring of [silver or bronze or gold].
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons (2013)
> x antique key (@ Study)
It's an antique key
Tookie's Song (2002)
> x icicle key (@ Central Well)
This key feels slightly cool to the touch. It is shaped to suggest some sort of icicle or snowflake.
> x resilient key (@ Central Well)
Though shaped like a normal key, this one feels rather odd. When you touch it, it squishes very slightly before returning to its normal shape.
> x plus key (@ Central Well)
Only one characteristic of this key distinguishes it from a perfectly normal house key: there is a small, even cross engraved in the upper portion of it. In addition, you imagine that it is actually radiating a bit of warmth.
> x dropping key (@ Central Well)
Even though it looks completely normal, something about this key makes you think of it as a "dropping" key. You're not sure why.
The Tower of Beef (2003)
> x key (@ Beef Processing)
The key is pretty normal looking, except for the phallus carved into its head. Presumably that indicates its use.
Trapped in a One-Room Dilly (1998)
> x white key (@ One-Room Dilly)
It is just a little white key.
Trapped in a Small Room (2010)
> x key (@ Shelf)
A key with a picture of a plum on it. Looks like it would fit in some sort of heavy padlock.
Tryst of Fate (1995)
> x wire key (@ Upstairs Hallway)
Magnificent in its opulence, astounding in it's austerity - its a bent piece of wire with a loop in it.
> x wooden key (@ Mark's Room)
The key is carved out of some type of dark wood.
> x brass key (@ Burned Down Shack)
This is pretty much your average brass key with few distinguishing features except for the voluptuous lady carefully engraved onto the shaft.
Turning Point (2004)
> x key (@ Weaponry Half)
This key unlocks cabin 612.
Underground (2019)
> x red key (@ White stone cave)
This is a Red Key, it's thick and metallic. [hint]
> x iron key (@ North end of Iron Hall)
It's an iron key. [hint]
> x golden key (@ Hellish path)
A nice and shiny golden key. [hint]
> x brass key (@ East end of Hallway)
An old Brass Key. [hint]
> x white key (@ West Hallway)
It's a plain white key. It feels thin in your hand. it's a bit cool to the touch.
Untold Riches (2015)
> x brass key (@ Rainforest)
The brass key is about as long as your finger. Professor d'Squarius was sure this key would grant you access to the vast riches he spoke so vaguely about.
The Untold Story (2019)
> x crescent key (@ Under the Forest)
The blade of the key is shaped like a crescent moon while the head of the key has the impression of a symbol of some kind. It looks to be the symbol of a Wizard.
Vindaloo (1996)
> x front door key (@ The Hallway)
It is your front door key.
The Wand (2017)
> x key (@ Library)
It's a large brass key.
> x iron key (@ Smithy)
It's a large iron key.
Waystation (1995)
> x key (@ In the Car)
It's a small, silvery key.
The Weapon (2001)
> x key (@ Yi-Lono-Mordel Control Room)
[if 1st time] Given that one of the guards who brought you up here gave the key to Cheryl, this else This [end if] elliptical disk of grey metal is almost certainly the key for a certain particularly annoying pair of handcuffs.
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (2021)
> x key (@ Closet)
A small ornate gold key with a heart design at the top. You remember Ian putting that key in a slender woman's hand, closing her fingers over it, and kissing the hand.
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft (2014)
> x key (@ Fountain)
A large iron key, rusty and pitted.
Withdrawal Symptoms (2000)
> x brass key (@ Large Bank Room)
This key leads to the deposit box formerly belonging to your aunt. It is made of yellow brass and you think it looks kind of important. The number 4711 is engraved in it.
The Wizard's Apprentice (2013)
> x key (@ The Dungeon Cell)
The Xylophoniad (2016)
> x bronze key (@ Cave mouth)
A heavy bronze key with a heart-shaped loop. On the shaft is engraved in tiny writing: To the bedchamber of she whose face launched a thousand ships.
You Are Here (2001)
> x iron key (@ Guest Room)
A plain iron key, cheaply made.
> x golden key (@ Inn Lobby)
The golden key is decorated with elaborate sculptures of humanoid figures, entwined in impossible contortions.
Zeppelin Adventure (2018)
> x key (@ vast desert)
Not the kind of key that unlocks doors, but a butterfly-shaped key for winding up a clockwork mechanism.
Zombies! (2004)
> x plain key (@ Kitchen)
It's a plain industrial key marked 'DO NOT COPY, BOY!'
> x outer key (@ Warehouse S)
A plain key larger than the interior door keys. You recognize it as the key to the outer door.
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