I remember Crimson Room. Great game. Not to fill you with despair or anything, but there are at least two sequels: Veridian Room and Blue Room. I solved Veridian Room, but I haven't had any time to try Blue Room yet.

You can find them all by searching Dave Barry's blog.

Looks like it's broken. The code you get from the "Yellow Chamber" doesn't open the safe like it's supposed to.

Ace, at some point in our lives, all men want to know what's in the box of mystery.

But you have to ask her nicely.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Am I the only one who didn't have any patience for that? I have all but 2 of the items to get out of there and my furious clicking on every screen has gotten tedious.

Poop.

Yeah, it gets a little tedious, as those games do.

That's why God invented walk-thru's, dude.

I don't think I've ever played a single game without relying on a good walk-thru after twenty minutes on a level.

Like I've got the time to go searching through thirty fucking rooms to find the silver fucking key and to flip that one switch that lowers the fucking energy shield around the fucking power generator.

I spent one whole godamn hour trying to figure how to get our of that !@#$ room. And then I learn it's busted!?

Sue everybody!!!

I'm actually kind of proud of the fact I needed to look at the walkthrough for "Champions of Norrath" twice: "The last catapult is right by the entrance to the level, dumbass," and "run around the spider and hit it in the back, dumbass."

First time I got through a game with so little help.

It's not busted, you have to use the code AND the last key to open the safe.

Actually, it's even more devious than that... it must have a cookie saved on the particular link.. you have to play the game, get the website address, from that link get the password of the day, follow the link back to the game... don't close the window... then replay the game, the password for the safe will work then.

I found the 'Viridian Room' to be more of a challenge than the 'Crimson Room.' The blue one I didn't get very far on. I got the money, the pen, the paper (help note) and worked the little pneumatic thingy, but to no avail. Ah well... such are life's litle diversions.

The phone number for the Blue Room is a Japanese style phone number.

I got through the Crimson Room and the Blue Chamber easily but am stuck on the Cross in the Viridian Room. I can not figure out where the Chinese Characters go. Please help! I've tried different ways but to no avail.