Basketball Arena Escape

Written by: Rambler

This Marathon Walkthrough really deserves a place here, also to show the great atmosphere among all of the players. Thanks @Rambler and @his claque of supporters!

tonylimon24
Thanks to all who helped. The walkthrough's gonna be as long as a novel.
16/6/10 22:01

Rambler
I'm gonna try a walkthrough lol
16/6/10 22:29

Peke
Good luck @Rambler
That is quite a challenge.
16/6/10 22:34

annaby
good luck @Rambler. All that back and forth and up and down ... are you feeling a little masochistic today?
16/6/10 22:35

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 1

This is a non-linear game and a lot of the moves can be done in various orders, however some things must be done before you can move on

• Turn left twice and click on storage room door to enter, click on open cupboard door to close it and then click on waste bin, collect ID card.
• Back out to court and turn right 3 times, click on old rooms and then enter room 2. Click on left blue cupboard and note title of book (BURSA588).
• Back out of room 2 and enter room 1. There’s nothing to get here yet, but note that there’s a safe needing a code and a door cabinet that ‘You need to active’.
• Back out of old rooms to the court and turn left 3 times, zoom into box to right of office door and use TBL card that you got from the waste bin.
• Click on monitor and click red?
• Answer the question – lower case will do it.
• New password (changes each game)
• Enter new password and click on door control folder –this ‘actives’ the door cabinet.
• Close that folder and click on the Open Codes folder, note the two banks of numbers – best if you write them down one above the other.
• Back out of PC and zoom into green VIP cupboard, note that you need a 6 figure code.
• Back out of office and return to room 1 in old rooms
• Click on the door control panel and it should open
• Now the game begins to get real : )
TBC
16/6/10 22:53

Mark
Rambler, I played twice, ALL codes change.
16/6/10 22:57

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 2

• you need to click the wires at the top and bottom so that 1 on the top is connected to 3 on the bottom, 2-1, 3-5, 4-2, 5-4
• See here for a screen shot http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6816/doorcontrol.jpg
• (sorry it’s a bit small)
• So now the control room and the press room are unlocked
• Go to the press room and click on the left hand side of the desk, whoa, it moves! Do it again and again until it’s up against the right hand wall. Now click on the floodlight on the right to make it turn to our right (so it’s looking at the wall), then turn off the light using the switch on the left – tadaaa, a code (TGT 681)
• Exit the room and enter office, click on top drawer – I’m sure you can work the next bit out!
• Take the blue key.
• Back to the storage room and use the key on the bottom right cabinet to get a USB stick
• Back to the control room
• Use the USB stick on the console and wait until copying has been completed. No need to try and take it back, it’s in your inventory by default.
• Exit control room and head to the office, place USB stick in PC tower and click on monitor. Use your brain here.
• Home team, guest team and referees rooms are now open.
• The game is afoot…
TBC
16/6/10 23:16

Rambler
Ah, thanks Mark, I didn't realise that.
Does anyone want to take over, I'm bushed...
16/6/10 23:18

Rambler
If not, I'll press on. Gotta eat first.
How is it so far though?
16/6/10 23:21

annaby
@Rambler - you're doing an outstanding job!
16/6/10 23:26

Rambler
Thanks annaby

Walkthrough Part 3
• Now you have some choices
• Explore all the new rooms that have been opened for your own pleasure and see how you go, however this is what you should find.
• Guest Team, at first there is nothing of interest in the toilets, although note that you can turn right and see a fan and cubicles.
• In the locker room you can open a locker and get excited, but there’s nothing to collect (there’s a shirt with ‘8’ on it but it’s a red herring)
• There’s nothing in the showers either.
• Back out and head for the Home Team
• Enter the toilets and turn right, looks familiar? See that the fan is turning though, so turn it off and click on the cable. Whoa, it came off, so collect it.
• Back out and have a quick squint in the showers, sorry girls, nothing to see here ; )
• Head for the locker room and find a basketball in one of the lockers, I’ll let you find it, don’t want to spoil the fun!!
• Now you have a choice, you can move on further into the home team room and start using the elevator, or you can go back to the court and use the ball.
• To use the ball, go back to the court and turn until you see the guest room door, click just above it when you see a hand and you will get a side-on view of the basketball net. Guess what you do here.
• Well done, you should have a pink pass card now.
• Okay, in your inventory you should have a cable, a blue key and a pass card all active.
• Enter the guest room and go to the toilet block, turn right and place the cable on the fan. Aha, another key, this one is grey (or gray if you’re not English)
• Okay, that’s it for the Guest Rooms.
• Back out to the court.
17/6/10 00:05

annaby
@Rambler - I have to go out for a while, but I'll be cheering you on the whole time. I'll check in when I get back.
17/6/10 00:12

Peke
Looking good @Rambler
Few more laps and then the finishing line.. :)
Beware of dehydrating yourself on this marathon.. :)
(personally, I'd use beer)
17/6/10 00:20

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 4

• Ref’s room next.
• In we go and turn left into the meeting room. There’s a white board here that looks like it should spin, and the curser turns into a hand on the r/h side and let’s us know this, however, nothing happens. Grrr
• Never mind, let’s try the other room.
• Now then, we seem to have a missing book, where can it be? I’m sure it will turn up later; in fact I know it will.
• Anyway, while we’re here we may as well use the grey/gray key to open the locker. TADAAAAAA, a screwdriver. Now we’re cooking : )
• Now then, where can the s/d be used, well it’s a hand tool and should be used as such, it can tap things, turn things, lift things – in fact, it’s the tool that keeps on giving : )
• So, let’s try it on the white board in the meeting room. Oh my god, it turns the board over, unluckily for us there’s only a big pink splodge to view. Hmmm, maybe we need something to clean it off.
• So let’s go search for a cleaner.

TBC

I've got a second wind now : )
17/6/10 00:24

Sarah
@ Rambler You are amazing!!! your wt is GREAT!!! I completly missed the right turn in the toilets!! duh but thanks to you I have everything do far that you have mentioned..off to check the othe posts now to keep going..please keep doing the WT your doing great T.Y!! :D
17/6/10 00:31

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 5

• So we need a cleaner. Well where can we find that? Let’s go back to the unexplored part of the home team room.
• Click, click, click – aha, there’s an elevator.
• Up we go
• Hmm, Fast Food, Store, Pool and Table Tennis.
• Self Service is closed – boooo. Wait a minute, there’s a coin trapped under the flap, let’s get it. Damn, it’s stuck and our trusty s/d can’t shift it, oh well, perhaps another reliable tool will help. We’ll see later.
• Click on. Ah, there’s the club store, but it’s closed and cunningly situated in a place where no fan is allowed. How the hell do they sell stuff??
• Click on round the corner and look into the Table Tennis Room, open the top right cabinet and see an arrow pointing up, so do what it asks of you. Aha, a vent, if only we could open it. But we can, we have the s/d! However, all we are left with is a ventless hole.
• Never mind, I’m sure it means something.
• Back out and enter the Pool room, oho, there’s a key at the bottom of the pool; I’m a good swimmer so I’ll just dive in and grab it. Oh no, it’s electrified. Fortunately, the game maker is more sensible than me and doesn’t allow me to dive in. Phew!
• Well, while we’re in here we may as well explore. Turn right and see a ‘dodgy’ tile, then smile, because you now know that you’re going to get a hammer somewhere along the line, or at very least a crowbar. My money’s on the hammer though.
• Right then, where’s this cleaner? Okay back out of the pool and click on the stairs going down to the right. What’s this? The Exit? Alas no, well not for us anyway. So click right of the door and then enter the cleaning room. Cleaning room you say, well then there must be some cleaning material here, sure enough there is. Find it and get out.
• Return to the referees’ room and clean the board.
• Aha, we have a shape code, make a note of it.

TBC
17/6/10 00:51

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 6

• Again, we have a choice, you can go to the exit and use the s/d on the panel, but you will see that you are missing a gear, or you can go exploring and find the gear and not know what to do with it for a while.
• My choice would be to get into the elevator and choose level ‘0’. What’s this, am I able to jump in a car and drive out of here? No, don’t be silly, and don’t think you can open the door to the parking area by clicking on the handle either! I’m afraid you must tap the bars.
• Anyway, you’re in the car park area now, note the car registration – it changes every game, but it might just might be useful
• Especially if you return to room 1 in the old rooms section. Why? I here you ask, well, remember the safe ………..
• I take it that you opened the safe!
• If you did, you now have a very hand gear. Hmm..
• Okay, to the exit!!
• If you didn’t already, open the panel with the s/d, then use the gear.
• Aha, a code needing shapes. Well, we know this from the whiteboard. (Again, different in every game)
• Bingo, Exit A is open
• Time to explore anew : )

TBC
17/6/10 01:12

Peke
I considered opening the A a halfway point. Maybe six more laps to go.. :)
17/6/10 01:33

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 7

• Okay, Exit A is now open, if you like you can follow the corridor all the way down to the end, but it will do you no good. Instead, use the elevator.
• Once again, you have a choice; feel free to explore all the floors from -1 to 3.
• The best bet though, is to go to the third floor and examine the VIP rooms to the left and the right. Take a note of the numbers on the back of the chairs. NB, in order to achieve this, you must go right first and then go back to the left.
• So we now have a 6 digit number (again, it changes for each game) and it relates to VIP. Hmm.
• I’m sure you can remember where to put this number. No?
• Remember the Office with the Green VIP cabinet?
• Well done, you should now have a green key.
• Go back to the elevator in Exit A and choose the ‘0’ option, it should take you to the gym.
• Use the green key to turn on the light in the changing room
• Steal the credit card from the jacket on the left
• Back out, turn left twice and face the swinging punch bag. Wait until it swings over to your right and then grab the pair of pliers on the shelf behind (So many thanks due here, Yvon, Mark, Gary and annaby especially).
• That’s it for the Gym.
• Back out and head for the Home Team room.

TBC
17/6/10 01:37

nokra
Wow!!!@rambler...reading the WT and it is great...inspiring me to play again!
What a super job and game!!!!Thanks for all your hard work!!!
17/6/10 01:47

annaby
over 2 hrs later and Rambler is still going strong!
17/6/10 02:21

Rambler
Walkthrough Part 8

• So, head for the elevator and go to level 2. Use the pliers on the shutter to get the coin.
• Now head back to Exit A and use the elevator to go to level 3 and use the coin to get a soda from the machine immediately in front of you on the right.
• Now turn left and you should see the Sport Library in front of you. If not, back out to the lift and re-enter.
• Once you’re in the Sport Library, you will see a yellow book that’s brighter than the rest (and clickable), grab it.
• Now whip down to level -1 and click behind the security console (to the top right – you’ll see a hand) and get…….a HAMMER, woohoo.
• Okay, to use the hammer, go to the Home room again and make your way up the elevator to the store front and smash the window to get some binoculars. While you’re up there, go the Pool and give the dodgy tile a whack too and see that you need a valve.
• Head back to the court and go to the Referee’s room
• Go into the main room and place the book in the gap in the bookshelf. Wow, what a book, it can make cupboards move.
• Don’t be shy, run down the new opening and explore, to the right is a steamy hall and to the left is a barred window.
• Go to the left and select your binoculars from the menu and you’ll have a new view, take note of the numbers (change each game) and also the piles of ‘bricks’, note how many of each there are in each pile.
• Back up and go down the right tunnel to the end, shove the soda up the steamy pipe and move forward.
• Use the trusty S/D, click the off to on, and be prepared for amazingness. Back up….
• Yay, a new tunnel, go down and click on the left hand console. Enter the number you saw through the binoculars.
• A walkway appears, sprint down, grab the valve on the left and exit rapidly.
• Go back to the Pool room, you know what to do, I’m sure. Then collect the black key from the bottom of the pool.
• Now we’re on the home run.
• Go back to the 2nd floor in Exit A and use the credit card on the machine in front of you to purchase a ticket.
• Grab the ticket and turn right to the turnstile. Use the ticket to go through the turnstile.
• Then, when you get to it, use the pink pass card on the reader to open the door to the gym.
• Go forward and look up, what’s that? A little blue box hanging from the ceiling, how are we going to get that down then? Well, we shall see.

TBC

Not much more now….
17/6/10 02:34

Peke
Aaand Rambler picks up the speed. The finishing line is just ahead. We could be witnessing a new world record.. :) Go, Go, Go..
17/6/10 02:44

annaby
@Peke - I agree. Rambler is headed for the Pulitzer prize for walk-throughs
17/6/10 03:00

Rambler
Not long now….

Walkthrough Finale

• Right, let’s revisit some old ground. Can you remember the start of this game when we could only enter the likes of the Old Rooms?
• Well let’s revisit them. Go back to the Old Rooms and enter Room 1.
• Click on the safe, but its open I hear you cry!
• Ah, but how many of you saw the top right part that needed a key, so use the black key. Woohoo, a Golden Cube.
• Sprint back to the Referee’s room and hustle down to the tunnel.
• Click on the right hand console, you know, the one that you need a golden cube for.
• Plonk the Golden Cube in and wait. Ladders, yay, let’s get out of here.
• Not yet, sorry, there’s more to do.
• Wait a wee minute, those piles of bricks look familiar, let’s change them to match the drawing we made earlier (you did make a drawing didn’t you?)
• If you didn’t, it’s easy enough, just go back to the binocular view.
• Once you get the gate open, grab the bow and arrow.
• Head back to Exit A and take the elevator to level 2
• If you haven’t already done so, purchase a ticket from the machine on the left by using the credit card you ‘lifted’ from the jacket in the Gym changing room
• Move right to the turnstile
• Use the ticket
• Go through the turnstile
• Head down the ramp
• If you haven’t already done so, use the pink pass card to open the door
• Take the Bow and Arrow and shoot down the blue box.
• Head back to the court near the Guest team room and open the blue box and collect THE EXIT KEY!!!
• Head for the exit….
• Oh, where is the EXIT? Goddammit, where is the Exit?
• Hmm, we could try lot’s of places.
• GOT IT!, Remember the 3rd floor where the Sport Library was. I’m sure there was a staircase on the right, let’s try there…
• Damn, the door’s locked : (
• Hang on though, we have a gold key, let’s try that..
• Hoorah, we’re out. People are waving garlands and offering us apes and ivory. Oh, perhaps not…
• Thanks GH, I think we deserved better.

Whew, my first major walkthrough. I need a drink now…
17/6/10 03:11

Peke
WOOT.. Rambler did it..
Great WT.
Feeling tired now? :)
17/6/10 03:21

annaby
@Rambler - your WT is funny & fantastic! I award you the Medal of Achievment. And you've inspired me to play it again tomorrow.
btw, loved the part about finding the exit - I think most of us had a hard time remembering where we saw it.
Enjoy your drink(s)!
17/6/10 03:21

Rambler
Thanks both, it'll be a while before I attempt one of those again. Haha
Anyway, cheers and goodnight.
17/6/10 03:35

Peke
@Rambler
G'night..
I think I need some sleep too..
17/6/10 03:51

Valantine
Awesome wt, we haven't had a good game like this in a long while
17/6/10 04:05

kennedyspag
WALKTROUGH NEEDED! WHERE TO GET INTO REFS ROOM?
17/6/10 04:07

SuzieGirl64
Thank you for a stupendous WT Rambler! I couldn't have done it without you!
17/6/10 04:24

JJ
wow...awesome WT wouldn't have made it without rambler. Thanks again everyone. This one takes it over Mr. Bean this week. =}
17/6/10 05:57

Full
Wow Rambler, congratulations on your walkthrough!!
That´s a hell of a job you did there.
Didn´t play the game yesterday but will start now and i´m gonna need the WT for sure :-)
17/6/10 11:09

Puzzeled
Fantastic game, and even more so the WT. Loved the part about finding the exit. I was running around in cirkles trying to find it, but all that did, was get me dizzy!lol. Couldn´t have done it without all your comments and the WT. Thanks all!
17/6/10 20:10

Gina
Thought I'd make it an even 400 comments. Must be the Monk in me! I've been an escape gamer since the Crimsom Room & although I rarely comment I do recognize the regulars & really appreciate their help & WT's. Couldn't do it without them!
18/6/10 03:10

Ellie
I finally got the time to play this game. A great one even if most of the views were like "nope, nothing to find here either" lol!

An amazing wt @Rambler, it was such a pleasure to read it!! Thank you so much for the effort, and gongtats for the Pulitzer Price lol - you deserve it!! I'm really looking forward to your next long game wt :D
19/6/10 04:46

Edgar
@nokra, you were right... Excellent game! It gave me hours of fun :D
And a remarkable WT @Rambler. It gave me a pleasant reading time also, thanks for that. I wouldn't give only a Pulitzer but the Nobel as well!! LOL!
19/6/10 05:15

kitkatfox
excellent game! I needed some hints to get out.

Love the finding the exit in the walkthrough @Rambler. You captured my feelings exactly lol :D
7/7/10 22:47