Gateway Game Hints

• The object of the flash game "Gateway," which received the Audience Choice Award in the Jay Is Games 2006 Casual Gameplay Design Competition, is to navigate a robot through a series of rooms, solving a puzzle in each location to open the gateway to the next area. While the gameplay mechanics of "Gateway" are relatively simple, its puzzles are anything but.

Telescope

• In one room, you'll find a telescope and a keypad. Looking through the telescope, you'll see a robot napping on a sofa. Look away from this window and look back; the robot will rise, writing the word "Peeper" on the window. However, if you consider this writing from the robot's perspective, it displays the number "739339," which is the code for the keypad.

Planks

• The following area has two gateways with platforms and a third platform in the middle, but nothing connecting them. You enter the room from the left and push down a plank to connect to the center. To access the right-side gateway, step on the color panels in the center platform until they're both the same color; it doesn't matter what color they are. Walk through the left gateway again and you'll enter from the one on the right, allowing you to push the other plank down. Walk back to the center platform and step on the color panel on the right until it matches the background of the platform, and you'll be able to access a new area through the right gateway.

Pearls

• Next you'll find six pearls of varying size: tiny, small, medium, big, large and huge. The pearls are located near six pedestals, and you'll be able to create a stairway to the next gateway by positioning the pearls on the appropriate platforms. The height of the steps should increase from left to right, and trial-and-error may be necessary to find the correct solution. The proper pearl placement, from left to right, is large, medium, huge, tiny, big and small.

Television

• To watch TV, you first need to find an extension cord; use the screwdriver to open the panel near the gateway to obtain it. Each channel on the TV shows you a different clip from the same video, and when you watch it in sequence, you'll see an orange robot moving throughout the various scenes in the house. The chronological order of the clips also forms the password for the keypad in this room; the sequence is 954271.

Light Bulbs

• The final room in "Gateway" is shaped like an octagon, with eight panels in the floor and six light bulbs hanging above it. When you step on a panel beneath a light bulb, the light will flash a number of times, indicating how many total times you need to step on that panel. If you lose track of the number, step on the panel until it returns to the starting color and count again from there. In the completed puzzle, each of the six panels will be a different color, and, starting from the gateway and moving clockwise, they'll be red, purple, blue, green, pink and yellow.