The 4:52 — walkthrough
Each entry is one command, in order, separated by slashes.
Directions are abbreviated (n, se, u, d). This is
the exact sequence the game's own test suite runs, so it is always current.
Act I — First Class
board / examine window / wait until 3:52 / n / n / wait until 4:20 recall / wait until 4:52
One loop, all the way round, to see the reset. wait until is how you travel: one turn is one minute and there are a hundred and two of them.
Act II — The Timetable
board / n / wait until 3:30 / ask cavanagh about a crash / s / s wait until 3:48 / n / n / n / n / n wait until 3:54 / wait until 4:00 / s / wait until 4:28 / wait until 4:52
Be in the room at the minute. Third coach at 3:30 for the boy; the guard's van at 3:48; the restaurant car for 3:54 and 4:00; the kitchen at 4:28. Eight facts ends the act.
Act III — The Front of the Train
board / wait until 3:50 / search coat / n / n / n n / n / n / n / n / read the register n / n / read the card / ask hollis about the signal / wait until 4:28 / wait until 4:40 wait until 4:52
The key is in Skeat's coat from 3:46 while he takes tea. Eight coaches forward, through the corridor door, over the tender, and then wait on the footplate for 4:28 and 4:40.
Act IV — The Cutting
board / wait until 4:40 / pull cord / wait until 4:52
pull cord and then stay aboard. Eleven becomes forty-one. That is the act.
Act V — 4:52
board / n / n / n / n / sit s / s / s / s / s / wait until 4:00 ask vail about his daughter / wait until 4:45 / warn vail / wait until 4:51 / warn vail
The winning line, in order: sit at table four before 3:54 so there is no row and the guard stays in his van; ask vail about his daughter between 3:58 and 4:28; then be in the van after 4:34 and warn vail. The other two endings are alight at Westbury and let it happen.
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