Escape Room Level 24

Overview

Level 24 takes place in a yellow-walled bedroom with a brown door on the left, a plain T-shirt hanging on a wall hook to the door's right, an open book spread in the center showing the question HOW MANY HOLES IN CLOTHES?, and a bed with a pink blanket on the right. A purple star ball, a soccer ball, and a basketball sit on the floor at the lower left. The password is the number word SIX.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 4

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look over the bedroom before opening the keypad. Note the brown door, the T-shirt on the hook beside it, the open book with the holes-in-clothes question, the bed with the pink blanket, and the three balls on the floor.
2. Read the question on the open book carefully: it asks how many holes a piece of clothing such as the displayed shirt has. Count the openings a shirt provides rather than counting only the visible tear.
3. Tap the keypad beside the door to open the letter panel. The answer bar has three empty slots, and the pool reads X, W, E, I on the top row and T, O, N, S on the bottom row.
4. Convert the counted total into its English number word. The shirt's neck, two sleeves, and waist opening, together with the torn hole shown on the fabric, lead to the total expressed by the three-letter word SIX.
5. Tap S from the bottom row, I from the top row, and X from the top row to fill the three slots in order, spelling S-I-X.
6. Check that each letter is present in the pool and that the three slots match the three letters. Confirm SIX; the panel accepts it, the door opens, and the level-clear chest reward appears on screen.

Strategy & Reasoning

This is a counting riddle disguised as a bedroom scene. The bed, the blanket, and the balls are dressing; the active clue is the shirt on the hook and the question printed in the open book. The trick is to count every opening in the garment, not just the obvious damaged spot.
The letter pool confirms the number word. Among three-letter number words built from X, W, E, I, T, O, N, S, only SIX can be formed, and its letters S, I, X all appear in the pool. Words such as TEN need a T and E and N but do not match the shirt count the riddle intends, and ONE is unavailable because O, N, E cannot form the required answer here.
Counting the garment openings one by one prevents the common undercount. Players who see only the torn fabric hole guess a smaller number, while the riddle counts the functional openings of the shirt as well; the resulting total matches the word the pool can spell.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Do not count only the visible tear. The riddle counts the shirt's neck, sleeve, and waist openings together with the damaged hole, so a one-hole guess undercounts.
• Do not let the balls on the floor distract you. The three sports balls are set dressing; they do not determine the number in the password.
• Do not settle for a number word whose letter is missing from the pool. If your candidate needs a letter the keypad does not show, recount the openings instead of forcing the entry.