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- Garden Layout
- How To Escape The Garden
- How To Get The Gold File
Behind the Blue Chromatic Door in Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward lies the B. Garden, or Garden for short. In this large area, you can find flowers, trees, and water streams under an artificial sky roof. You will explore this room with Alice and Luna, who will provide hints throughout the puzzle.
The Garden has a few tricky puzzles whose solutions aren't always obvious. If you're stuck on any part of the Garden, we're here to help. Let's take a look at everything you can find in the Garden, the solutions to each puzzle, how to get the Gold File, and ultimately how to escape.
This guide will not contain any spoilers for the story.
Garden Layout
The Garden is shaped like a triangle, with the exit and entrance doors on adjacent walls in the corner. Throughout the Garden, a thin stream of water flows. Before we escape, let's take a look around this room.
Turning to the left after entering the room, you can find the escape door and the escape safe. On the wall nearby is a keyhole that we will come back to later.
Move down the wooden path to find a bench beside a waterfall, and a control panel with three red buttons. Next to the control panel is a shed, in which you can find a shovel and a key.
On the opposite side of the shed, you can find a wood floor area with a sign displaying a birds-eye view of the Garden and a hint for a part of the puzzle. On the other side of the wooded area, you can find a potted plant, and a small vegetable garden. To the left of this area, facing the tree, you can find another bench and a measuring scale.
To the right of the bench you can find a small pond beside a gravestone. This gravestone isn't used for the puzzle, but we will need to come back to this area later to grab an item.
How To Escape The Garden
Now, let's seek a way out of the Garden.
Start by picking up the metal rod from the bench near the entrance, then pick up the shovel and bronze key from the shed nearby. With the shovel equipped, turn so that your back is facing the shed and inspect the small area of grass beside the stream. Dig here to find the box with bronze lid, which you can combine with the bronze key to get a piece of torn paper.
Head back near the entrance and find the mushroom at the foot of the tree. Use the shovel here to dig up the box with silver lid. Next, move to the wooded area and inspect the potted plant to find the silver key. Combine this with the box with silver lid to find a second piece of torn paper. This can be combined with the first piece of paper to get most of the torn note.
After moving the potted plant back, turn to your left and inspect the cut open bell pepper to get a yellow coin. Move to the next area, and, near the pond, equip the shovel and dig up the white skunk cabbage to find a box with gold lid. While you're here, pick up the metal detector that is leaning on the gravestone.
Next, move slightly to the left to find the measuring scale. Pick up the small knife from the left scale, and the gold key from the right scale. Combine the gold key with the box with gold lid to get the final piece of torn paper, which you can combine with the other two to complete the paper with dots.
After picking up both items from the scale, the drawer on the measuring scale will open, revealing a piece of metal. This can be combined with the metal rod you found earlier to create the lever handle.
Head back to the vegetable garden and equip the metal detector. You can use this on all three of the crops growing here to find a tomato, onion, and cucumber. Combine each of these with the small knife to receive the red coin, white coin, and green coin, respectively.
Move back to the scale with the coins in hand, and you can begin your first mini-game of the Garden. Here, you will need to measure the weight of each coin against the others, until you are able to determine the relative weight of each coin. However, after using the scale four times, it will break, and you won't be able to use it again.
To solve this mini-game, place any two coins in the scale and determine which is heavier. Then, place the lighter coin back on the scale and measure it against a new coin. Repeat this process until the machine breaks. If you weren't able to exactly figure out which coins were heaviest or lightest, don't worry, we'll go over the exact order later in the puzzle.
Next, with the paper with dots item equipped, head back to the control panel with three buttons near the shed. The paper will instruct you how to press the buttons. Follow the directions below to find the solution.
- Left
- Right
- Right
- Left
- Middle
- Middle
- Right
After pressing the buttons in this order, the waterfall will stop, and you can find a plaque with four slots for the coins to fit. Between each slot is a less-than symbol, indicating that you will need to place the coins from lightest to heaviest. Using the information we found earlier, put the coins into the slots in the following order.
- Red < White < Yellow < Green
Doing this will cause the panel to flip back and reveal a screen. Displayed on this screen are nine different colored stars, that you will need to touch in the correct order. To find the correct order, there are a few different steps we need to take first.
Exit out of the mini-game and head to the exit door. To the right of it, you can put the metal lever into the slot to operate the light system in the Garden. With the lights off, you can now see stars glowing in the water stream. Following them to the small pond, they appear in the following order.
- Purple
- Blue
- Yellow
- Green
- Red
Coincidentally, this is the order you need to tap the stars to solve the mini-game. Head back to the screen and tap the stars in the order above to turn the screen green, giving you the Green Safe Password. This can be entered into the safe to escape the Garden.
How To Get The Gold File
To get the Gold File, you will need to return to the star-selection mini-game. Instead of touching the stars in the order they appear towards the pond, you will instead need to enter them from largest to smallest. This order can be found below.
- Red
- Blue
- Yellow
- Purple
- Green
After entering this, the screen will display the Blue Safe Password. Return to the safe near the entrance and put this password in to receive the Gold File.
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