Escape the Sketchbook

What is Escape the Sketchbook?

Escape the Sketchbook is a free puzzle game made with twikoi's art. You're stuck inside her sketchbook, and every page is a little room drawn from one of her pictures, with her drawings on the shelf, the desk and a garland across the top.

The corner of every page is stuck shut with a little clasp. Find the key: lift a pot, turn a picture upright, give a snack to whoever is sitting on the box, follow the ants, count her little drawings for the dials, put a torn note back together. Then unstick the corner and turn the page.

Every page is built from a little tree of puzzles, and our test solves every one of them by trying every possible move, and checks that you can never get stuck.

How to play

1. Tap to look. Tap anything on the page to look at it. Some things move, open or turn.
2. Pick things up. Things you can take glow; tap one and it goes into your bag at the bottom.
3. Use things. Tap something in your bag to pick it, then tap where to use it on the page. Tap one thing in your bag and then another to put them together. Tap a picked thing again to see it up close.
4. Open locks. Dials, picture buttons and nine dots. The clue is always on the page: count the little drawings, or find the note that shows the order.
5. Turn the page. When the corner's clasp is open, tap the corner to escape.
6. Stuck? 💡 gives a small nudge first, then points at the thing, then tells you exactly what to do.

Features

• A page for every one of her pictures: the first 12 pages are hand-picked puzzle mixes from easy to tricky, and every other picture becomes a bonus page.
• Twelve kinds of puzzle mix together: pots, pictures hanging the wrong way, ants, dial locks, button locks, nine-dot locks, drawers with no handle, someone sitting on a box, a dark corner, a plate, torn notes and the stuck corner.
• Fair by test: every page and every daily page is solved by trying every possible move, and from any point there is always still a way out.
• A lesson you play, not read: the first page waits for the move it is teaching and says why another tap won't do.
• Someone from her sketchbook hides on every page, in a box, a drawer or a corner: find them all for your book.
• Three stars a page: escape, no hints, and beat the page's time. Plus a daily page that is the same for everyone, with a result to share.

Modes, levels and unlocks

Pages

Twelve hand-picked pages from a gentle lesson to big pages with eight or more puzzles, then a bonus page for every other picture. Each page opens when you escape the one before.

Daily page

A new page every day, the same for everyone, bigger at the weekend, with a result to share.

Lesson

The first page teaches by doing: lift, take, use, turn the page.

Tips

• Tap everything once. Things that hide something always wobble, creak or say so.
• Count the little drawings on the garland and taped to the walls: the dials show which ones.
• A note goes in your bag and stays there: tap it in the bag to read it, or use the note button inside the lock.
• Watch the ants: they always know where to go.
• Someone hides on every page. Look in the boxes and drawers you open before you turn the page.

Who will like Escape the Sketchbook?

Escape the Sketchbook is for anyone who likes looking closely and putting clues together, from a four-tap first page to big pages with a dozen things to find.

It is also for fans of twikoi's art: every page is drawn from one of her pictures, her drawings are the things you find and use, and her creatures hide on every page.

Questions

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