A Short Tale: Walkthrough Guide

31. Go back to where you got the clue for the keyboard to find a new clue. Take a photo of it.

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32. Look at the water pistol behind glass. Use the weird metal key to unlock the lock and get the water pistol. You need to rotate each of the pieces to match the lock. Sorry, I couldn’t get a screenshot fast enough.

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33. Use the trophy/gun case as a bridge to cross over to the DVDs and gum ball machine. Use your photo of the Forever Lost movie marathon to organize the DVDs in order of highest rated (best) at the top to lowest rated (worst) at the bottom. It goes episodes 2, 1, 6, 5, 3, 7, 4.

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34. Use the token to get some sweets from the candy/gumball machine.

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35. Go back to the magic 8 ball. This time he tells you he lost his train of thought. Look behind the desk to find a soccer ball. Use the pump to deflate it, then take the deflated football.

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36. Climb back up onto the desk. Use the sweets as stepping stones across the spilled lotion. Pick up the hair clip. Then, climb up the paper chain to the poster of Captain In Ya Face.

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37. Climb back down to the desk and use the photos from the Disc Viewer to open the pencil case. You need to make the number of gears show up as dots through the windows. Once the pencil case is open, take the paintbrush and four crayons.

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38. While you’re up here, use the paintbrush in the inkwell and then paint the ink onto the blank pice of paper on the desk. The numbers 19857 will appear in invisible ink. Take a photo of it.

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39. Go back down. Turn to the digger truck and press the button. Use the needle to hold the button down so you can climb up its neck to the easel.

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40. Use the photo you took of the sun/sky/mountains quiz to figure out the right colors for each part of the page. So the water is blue, the sky is green, the boat is red, the mountains are yellow, and the sun is red. Take a photo of the little strips of color left behind.

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41. Go back down and take the needle back from the digger.

42. Go back to the bed. Use the water pistol on the empty glass to fill it with water. Pick it up.

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43. Set the square alarm clock to 2:00 because there are only two blue squares on the blocks by the dollhouse.

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44. Use the 5-digit clue you got from the invisible ink (19857) to unlock the smartphone.

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45. Tap on the Balls of Light app. Turn on the light and the balls of light will turn on, wherever they are.

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This Post Has 56 Comments

  1. Mike

    Hey. Love the game. Thread disappeared after I picked up. Is this a bug??
    Thanks

    1. AppUnwrapper

      The thread in the game? It shouldn’t disappear before you use it.

    2. Graham Ranson - Glitch

      Sorry about this, very strange. Please go to the Save Game screen in Options and then select your save file and hit the Export button. If you follow the instructions there I can patch your save file.

      1. SJ

        Thanks Graham, but it WAS evil. ????

      2. Anne

        Hi

        I’m having the same problem – the thread is gone. I have tried to export the game and it is currently in my clip-holder. Which email can I send it to?

  2. Tj

    Having trouble with the gear puzzle. My trouble not a bug. When you first get to the pencil box, it shows a picture other than the ones you show. What do I do with that? Step 37.

  3. Nari

    So I’ve talked to all the toys. They all say they will help, except the magic 8 ball. When it came to the dvd part, he never told me to do it no matter how many times I clicked him. I put them in order anyways bc that was the point that I became stuck and came to your site. I just went to the door and still couldn’t open it, I went back to all toys and the 8ball finally said arrange the DVDs. I went back and “arranged” them again. He smiled. I went to door and still won’t open. Went back to 8 ball and now he keeps saying I lost my train of thought and “ggrrrr”.

    Teddy bear,alien,train,robot,vacuum, 8ball, am I missing a toy?

    1. AppUnwrapper

      There’s something else you need to do with the train. It’s tricky!

      1. Nari

        Hmm I’m not sure what I missed with the train? I put the track pieces down…I talked to him and he is willing to help me.

        1. AppUnwrapper

          I don’t want to give it away. It’s devious, but fun to figure out on your own.

  4. Immo

    Great game. Had to use the walkthrough, because i couldn’t find the needle. According to it needle is in the pinning wall. But there isn’t. Can you help.
    Thanks

      1. Immo

        I did. But there’s no needle, just the two notes. All items i got left are thread, 2 plastic buttons, small knife and inked brush. Maybe a bug.
        Thanks and sorry for bothering on valentins day. Lol

        1. AppUnwrapper

          You might have used it already on the digger button?

          1. Immo

            Geez!!!! You’re absolutely right.
            Thanks a lot!!

  5. Chucky

    Two comments:
    1) the needle is very easy to be missed out… it should go with a major hint like that without any highlighting
    2) the train of thought is too devious and really pisses people off…. wish you didn’t do stuff like that ;-(

    And except these two I solved the whole thing myself, sort of reasonably hard but doable.

    1. Chucky

      I mean it SHOULDN’T go with a major hint like that without any highlighting, sorry for the typo

    2. Tony

      The thing is everyone is different. I got the needle straight almost at the beginning with no issues. But that dial thing where you had to select numbers based upon cogs… even when I knew the answer I couldn’t get it to work. Had to use the screenshots literally.

      Also it was letting me turn on the hairdryer and put the water pistol in front of it, so in my mind that was warm water! Nah.

      Thank god for this walkthrough or there are a couple of bits I’d never have done. Glad to get most of it though without help. 🙂

  6. Richie

    Can anyone give me a hint regarding the lock on the suitcase in the closet? Please don’t spoil any other puzzles!

    It seems to me that I should’ve been to solve this puzzle early in the game, but for some reason I can not figure out the 5 color-coded lock on the suitcase.

    I’ve checked everywhere and everything and I’ve also solved some puzzles that were way more difficult than this one.

    Any hints, without giving too much information, would be appreciated.

    1. Andrea

      Check the picture you painted

  7. Susy

    I need to pick up the needle from the truck to use it on the teddy bear, but I can’t click on it. When I click on the truck it just gets me up to the easel… Anyone else experiencing this?

      1. Susy

        Yeah. But the zoom in on the button view is gone and doesnt show up anymore once i’ve put the needle in. Wherever i click on the truck it just takes me up the easel.

        1. AppUnwrapper

          You can try exporting your save file to Glitch Games and they can fix it for you if there’s a bug.

    1. nasim

      Press the button behind tractor

  8. AdventureGuy

    I still can’t figure out the “Lost my Train of Thought” part. Why isn’t the solution in the walkthrough?

    1. AppUnwrapper

      It is. If you want the answer, it’s in step 60.

  9. Ernst Wendrich

    I tried it 3 times at least but the thread disapears before i could use it. I also tried mailing it 2 times to glitch but still no answer. Very frustrating.

    1. AppUnwrapper

      If I remember correctly, the thread is used automatically to sew on the buttons. You just use the buttons on the bear and they’ll automatically get sewn on. Did you already try that?

    2. Ernst Wendrich

      I recieved mail that a fix for this problem had been submitted to Apple ????

      1. AppUnwrapper

        Oh so it sounds like it’s a bug they were able to reproduce and are waiting for the update to get approved. They might still be able to fix your individual save for you, but I’m not 100% sure.

  10. Ernst Wendrich

    I’ll just play this great game again ????????

  11. B

    Can’t open red trunk even after setting clock to 5:00

      1. B

        That’s what your guide said above

        1. AppUnwrapper

          Sorry, I meant “are you sure that’s *all* you need to do?” There’s more than one clock for that puzzle.

  12. B

    Set all 3 clocks to to 5; nothing. Also tried house clock at 7 as its reversed. Nothing.

  13. B

    Finished. Don’t understand. What happened to Ben? Ok to reply privately.

  14. B

    Yahoo lost my e mails. Would like to know what happened to Ben!

  15. Krista

    Hi! Having an issue with going back to get the clue where the keyboard numbers were found the first time. Step 31. The clue isn’t there…

  16. Sharkie

    Have finished all except the dress up robot. I put all of the pieces on correctly, including the carabiner, but it isn’t saying it will help. It seems I haven’t done it correctly, because I can still move the pieces around…

  17. D

    The TV doesn’t turn on when I use the voice command. Is there something I’m missing?

    1. AppUnwrapper

      It’s not actually supposed to work with you talking into it. You need to find another way.

  18. Selena

    Ok so I did everything.. Got my thread and needle, button on the bear but can’t sew it on. Am I missing a step? Got my sharp pencil point en brush with inked also in my bag (and thread and needle).

    1. Selena

      Nevermind. Needed 2 buttons haha. Thanks for the wt!

  19. Zhang Xiang

    What was the whole point about taking a picture of the Allen VS Senator poster? It wasn’t used in any of the puzzles…

    1. Kite

      Maybe it refers to a previous Glitch game? But no point in a photo.

  20. Isabelle

    I used the knife to get a button…. But I only got one, how do I get the other?

    Thank-you

  21. KarenC

    I can’t find one of the triangular yellow pieces…Can you tell me where it is?

    1. Niina

      This is what IΓÇÖm stuck on as well. I looked through the walkthrough and it shows that it should be next to the empty Balls of Light box but thereΓÇÖs nothing there for me. I cannot open the box. So frustrating!!

    2. Niina

      And apparently this box I cannot open (due to the glitched triangle piece) houses the thing IΓÇÖve been waiting this whole game to get: the game cartridge. IΓÇÖve been so pumped to use the generic NES this whole time! >=\

    3. Kyle

      This took me a minute. You have to click the middle of the box to look behind it… Thank you angry tapping!

  22. J W

    What’s the logic behind the pencil box combination? There are multiple ways to make 5, 7, and 3 dots appear by spinning the knob, but it seems like you have to do it in a particular way and order.

  23. Kite

    I donΓÇÖt get the order of the pencil one. I was following the patterns on the inside of the gears, matching it to the patterns linked to step 1, 2, 3 and 4, but that order is apparently wrong and I donΓÇÖt know why. I used the walkthrough a few times, felt a bit like I expected the app to glitch out and didnΓÇÖt want to churn a lot while not being sure if my obstacles were the app erroring or me, but it was me! Did solve most of it myself though. Some of the solutions were pretty wtf, compared to other Glitch games IΓÇÖve played so far. But still a great game. Confusing that the needle and thread were not visually shown to stick on the eyes (iOS phone), so when the game ended I didnΓÇÖt expect it and thought there was an error because I thought I hadnΓÇÖt used them yet.

  24. B

    No matter what I do the tv won’t change to the gaming channel.

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