Escape from Kettuloch

It's randomly generated on each playthrough. For clarity, it leads to the same location as the name guessing puzzle, so if you've already solved that one, you might not need to solve this one as well.

If you guess incorrectly, the game will give you more hints for how to do the math required to solve the puzzle.

The solution is (Number of turns) modulo (total number of notches) = (dial setting). Remember! The zero notch counts, so a 0-9 notched dial has 10 total notches. There are a few other ways to get to the right answer as well, but that's the easiest one to plug into a calculator.

(BTW, if you guess incorrectly a bunch of times your character will decide to just brute-force the combination, allowing you to pass the door without doing any math)

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. If you're talking about the final door, your character should open it automatically if you have all 3 secret keys in your inventory when entering the final room in the web version of the game.

(If you're playing the Python version instead of the web version, I'm pretty sure the command is "unlock," but I don't quite remember. The "help" command should list it though.)

Hearing stuff like this is always really cool, I'm super happy that the game has continued to help you!!!

They're definitely not super easy! The puzzles will give you hints in the game each time you get them wrong, and there's a full walkthrough in the downloads section, but I can definitely give a few hints here too!

Paste these into https://rot13.com/ to decipher them. (Or you could do it by hand, with A=N, B=O, C=P. etc., but that's a bit tedious, haha)

• Name puzzle (room 3,4):
  • Gurer ner gjb jnlf gb fbyir guvf chmmyr, ohg gur rnfvre bar vf svaqvat vg va gur ebbz. Vg'f jevggra va vaivfvoyr vax.
    
  • Gurer'f nyfb n frpbaq jnl gb fbyir gur chmmyr, juvpu vf n ersrerapr gb bar bs gur uneqrfg nqiragher tnzr chmmyrf, juvpu vf sebz Xvat'f Dhrfg.
  • Fryrpgvat vaivfvoyr grkg erirnyf vg.
  • Pyvpxvat naq qenttvat bire gur pbeerpg nern (be cerffvat pgey/pzq-N) jvyy erirny gur grkg.
  • Vg'f uvqqra haqrearngu gur qrfpevcgvba svryq.
  • Gur fbyhgvba vf avxfgyvgfyrczhe, gubhtu avxfgyvgfryczhe vf nyfb npprcgrq. (Ehzcryfgvygfxva onpxjneqf)
• Notches puzzle (room 1,4):
  • Gur fbyhgvba gb guvf chmmyr vf enaqbzvmrq rnpu gvzr lbh cynl gur tnzr.
  • Qba'g sbetrg gung n qvny ahzorerq sebz 0-3 unf sbhe gbgny abgpurf ba vg!
  • Vg zvtug or urycshy gb qenj gur qvnyf (vs gurer'f bar cynpr va gur tnzr gung fhssref sebz n ynpx bs ivfhnyf, vg'f guvf).
  • Lbh pna fbyir guvf chmmyr jvgu gur zbqhyb bcrengvba, be ivn qvivfvba jvgu erznvaqre.
  • Zber fcrpvsvpnyyl, fvapr rnpu shyy ebgngvba bs n qvny ergheaf vgf inyhr gb 0, lbh pna qvivqr njnl gubfr shyy ebgngvbaf, fvapr gurl qba'g vzcnpg jung abgpu lbh jbhyq raq ba. Gur erznvaqre vf gur nafjre.
  • Rknzcyr: Qvny N: 0-9 unf 10 abgpurf. Vs jr jrer gb ghea vg ol 1333 abgpurf, vg jbhyq pbzcyrgr 133 shyy ebgngvbaf, naq gura trg ghearq ol nabgure 3, erfhygvat va hf frggvat gur qvny gb 3. (1333/10=133 erznvaqre 3, be 1333 zbqhyb 10=3)
  • Lbh'er noyr gb oehgr sbepr guvf chmmyr, trggvat vg jebat 4 gvzrf erfhygf va lbhe punenpgre gelvat nyy bs gur cbffvoyr pbzovangvbaf (nsgre nyy, gurer'f n znkvzhz bs whfg 100 pbzovangvbaf, fvapr gur znkvzhz ahzore bs abgpurf ba rvgure qvny vf 10), nyybjvat lbh gb cebterff jvgubhg fbyivat rvgure chmmyr.

I could never quite understand the notch puzzle.

You're not alone on that one, that puzzle is responsible for like, half of the questions I've received on other sites, haha. Hmm... maybe I should add a visual representation of the dials to make that puzzle's description a bit more clear.

...dying to enemies that were doing less damage than I had health...

This one though? I haven't heard about anyone else experiencing that before, but if that’s happening, it needs to be fixed! (In the browser version, you should always have enough health to progress if you buy the armor and drink every potion) Do you remember which enemies or rooms caused this?

Also I'm not sure what sword your talking about in the guide since the shop keep has no sword

Yep, I'll fix that right now. I wrote the guide around the Python version, which had both a sword and armor in the store.

I've fixed the bug you encountered (if the player entered a fight on the same turn that the transformation progressed, the fight was triggered twice, once before and once after the transformation), plus, LynxSnowCat added a bunch of extra QoL features, like the ability to move with buttons in the sidebar!

I also updated the wording of the shop to make the sword/armor part of the walkthrough less different between the Python and HTML versions of the game.

I think so too, but I'm biased, haha. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

If you'd like to see how the gameplay changed over time, it could be worth a look! There isn't a lot to see on the story front though, since the original doesn't have any new endings to read, just a few changed room descriptions and a lot of extra typos, haha.

The Twine version is definitely the better of the two as far as quality-of-life stuff goes (needing to fully replay the game for each ending to see them all doesn't exactly add to the experience, haha), and I haven't seen anyone crash the Twine version, but I still like the original combat and timer balancing from the Python version.

Oh, and thank you, I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed your time playing it!

Congrats! I'm glad I could help, haha