LINGO 2 notes

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general

If a panel is red, I don’t have enough letters to solve it

Panels turn blue when hovered if i can interact with them. It’s not infinite range but i can stand a good distance away

Sometimes unsolving a panel matters, can do that by focusing the panel and pressing backspace

Some panels have a dot under them. I don’t know what this means

There is a “letter recovery” station in The Entry. This will pick up any letters left in the aqua colored square things which eat your letters and return them to you

For some reason pressing the equal-sign key types an H and at this point Idk if it’s intentional I have been told this is a controller support feature, presumably for players who enjoy suffering

If you head to the graphics settings and change the STYLE you can pick one which textures the walls, either for colorblindness or just for looks. This is nice when the plain walls get a bit boring

general (latergame stuff)

Red letters steal your letters ! you’d have to go find them again.

symbols

Sun

Synonym.

Bracketed, it means antonym.

Vertical bar thing

Homophone.

With a squiggle: a rhyme.

Star bubbles thing

Insert a letter (could be any letter, but it still makes a word; the new letter can appear anywhere in the word, you can’t anagram the existing letters).

Bracketed, it means delete a letter.

“Statue”

Six pointed star with smaller six-pointed stars in the lower corners.

I think, “follows from”? for example COWBOY (this symbol) HAT. Bracketed statue probably means “leads into”. In the crossword-cluing sense. “Belongs to the category of”. I think X (statue) -> Y means X belongs to the category of Ys, and unstatue means that Y is an example of X.

The commonly used statue-unstatue pair means “another thing in the same category as”.

Dot under a symbol

Do it again

Scribble above a symbol

A “variant” of a symbol

The Partial has one puzzle where the blanks are on the top and the prefilled answer is on the bottom. Interesting. The Partial’s symbol is symmetrical but other symbols aren’t so that could be neat

Planet

Make it plural. Bracket-planet, make it less plural. Taught in The Darkroom.

Blocks

The thing on the top is a component of the thing on the bottom. Taught in The Extravagant.

Bracketed blocks reverses which is the part and which is the whole, now the whole is on the top

“The snake” (it looks nothing like a snake)

You can do the thing on the bottom using the thing on the top. Taught in TEACH/LEARN in The Great.

As usual unsnake reverses the order.

Ziggurat

An “intensifier”, applying the ziggurat makes it more intense, applying the unziggurat makes it more subdued.

“empty set” symbol found outside the tree

No idea. Taught for-real in The Butterfly (now accessible from The Gallery)?

Ellipse with five vertical bars that looks kinda messy

Change gender?

Taught for-real in The Lively.

Hollow X

Hmm.

Target

Seems to be taught for-real in The Lionized (accessible from The Between -> painting -> door)

Whe modified with the squiggle, who knows:

Bracket all by itself

Reverse the word. There’s an instance of this in The Between.

Smiley face

Grab something from the environment, usually an adjacent panel or the concatenation of adjacent panels.

Bracketed smiley face? Uhh…

I think the exception is the first panel this face is introduced in, in The Great, where it just means BRO. It’s next to Brown, Red, and Orange colored blocks. Lol.

Doors

It’s on the back of the text at the start of the game.

Something to do with “replacing a letter with a duplicate”? No, that’s not right

Dot

Repeat?

There’s this one in The Repetitive HOTS (dot) -> 8 which I’m guessing is HOTSHOTS. Don’t have enough double-letters to enter it, though.

Shooting stars

Maybe taught in The Plaza (accessible through The Between). No idea.

Who knows man

Verticalbar could mean some kind of “append”? like HAND -> ARM makes sense with blocks on its own, but the H is preserved

Deep in The Unyielding, some kind of seatbelt/bandaid symbol??? Who knows???

A hole-in-wall symbol in Daedalus?

etc

The smiley face’s name is BRO

“Panels turn red when you don’t have the letters for them” + “those squares that steal your letters” = a hint system

Control Center looks like some sort of fast-travel thing? It only connects to The Partial for now but i imagine more areas will connect to it

The Great, garden-area on the left side:

And the garden on the right side:

The back garden, with muted colors:

The Great: I did the maze, it opened a door from the little tree-and-question-mark area to another section of The Great. But I’ve already been to that section through the IN/ROT doors. So what’s that all about.

This is totally cheating, but if you’re using a texture pack you can sometimes figure out when you teleport in The Digital based on when the textures rotate

The bottom copy of THINK THINK THINK above the The Orb room has turned green. Okay? It is no longer green

The Digital second maze

The Digital: The second maze. There’s some C-shaped purple lines on the top of the cage room, and a similar “DO YOU SEA” painting thing in The Great first-area, but i’m not sure what they mean (following a C shaped path just leads to more maze?)

I found a path in The Hinterlands. Not sure where I was supposed to learn that path from. It leads to The Gallery

I finally went to the left of the area near The Impressive, which had opened some time after I last looked, and found a PAINTING -> ART which revealed the painting. So I might have done a little progression skip

New area on the “Return To…” menu.

left path - The Extravagant. Has a very large backwards E and a new symbol (“blocks”). I think i’ve seen that symbol in the shadows of The Great, left garden. If you jump at some of the paintings, you teleport to the other one. Tutorializes the “blocks” symbol and it gave me the E

right path - The Parthenon. Structure with “WHO?” written in black and “WHERE?” written in cyan. one path leads to The Revitalized

straight, left: A black painting which leads to The Darkroom (which I could already get to).

straight: Behind the P painting is a letter-eater (but putting P in there doesn’t do anything)

straight, right: The Owl

(After finding C in The Digital I filled in TRICK/INK in The Entry and it told me LEAST BLUE LAST. I have no idea what that means. It’s now gone and replaced with a painting of The Owl.)

When i find more areas it looks like their paintings get added to The Gallery. I now have a painting to The Tree inhere.

The Tree

Starting from the main entry door and going clockwise, the doors along the tree roots are

The Unkempt

The weird hints are an anagram of all the answers?

LET UNTRUE TIE -> i found TILE through guessing, so what’s left is TUNTRUEE -> found TRUE -> TUNE

The Congruent

New area accessible from The Darkroom, seems to be a spoof of The Partial

Has a clue: 1 in cyan, 2 in pink, 3 in yellow, that make a G shape. Ok.

“Control” key

Displays as [REDACTED] in the hint menu.

(I tried this on the RETURN -> TURN in the fake entry but it didn’t override auto-leaving the map)

The Graveyard

Apparently accessible through falling out-of-bounds. First place I did this was The Sun Temple.

Has representations of all the countdown widgets, the ones that aren’t completed:

The Between

New area accessible from the first part of The Great. Groups of short puzzles that form a word when put together, where the concatenation is represented with the smiley-face. I need more infinite-letters to solve some of these.

The Quiet

Where the Q is. Accessible behind one of the hidden/secret panels in Daedalus, near the orange pipe

current leads

The Three Doors: the hell is happening in there. (It’s in the new area in The Great)

Daedalus: Yeah.

Daedalus, entry from The Tree: Two puzzles I can’t figure out yet.

The Entry: When I typed “wander” a wall opened up, it’s basically a mess back there. Some red panels as of QJYX. One panel I can solve: (bro [SNOW, MAN]) (unblocks) -> S????. Needs some double-letters.

The Entry: Anything else in the new area next to the I, besides the CONTROL tutorial?

The Unyielding: Need infinite-S to write HEALTH -> SICKNESS to the right of the bro statue room. Also some interesting letter-adding rooms (red and blue) which i gotta figure out but my brain is a little pear-shaped for the wordplay rn.

The Jubilant/The Quiet: Every single panel has a dot under it. Lmfao.

The Double Sided: Literally just a fucking maze? Ok?

Maybe check The Darkroom for new areas again

The Graveyard: Need to finish all the countdown widgets.

The Tower: Oh boy.

The Great: Any leads on entering the big beehive block? I want to go in there…

List of COLOR panels i’ve found and remembered to write down. Might need to scour the game again for color panels that I forgot to list here. (Entering the corresponding color into the Control Center will open the door.)

I guess I should start marking down dotted panels, huh?

The Owl

for the purposes of mapping i’ll just assume “north” in each room is “whichever way the orange pixels face”, which can be different room to room. Also, I didn’t meticulously finish this map after finding the pixel droppers lol

room 1

room 2

room 3

room 4

Dropping the blue pixels will allow me to cross this room

room 5

room 6

room 7

room 8

Adventurer’s log (didn’t start this at the start of the game)

Got the letter Y from playing with the QUESTION area

Figured out what the “statue” symbol actually means, seems to be “belongs to the category of”

Found M in The Impressive. Wow that’s kinda dumb, lol.

The Great: filling in SAVORY -> UNSAVORY and FLAVORS -> FAVORS opened another painting to The Extravagant

Reached a “(bracket) THE END” screen. Lol.

Solved this puzzle:

Found in Control Center: LESS/REVERSED DOUBLE YOU/ORB’S ORANGE/PEA’S PREREQUISITE/INSIDE THE PAINTING

  • REVERSED DOUBLE YOU - pretty clearly M, right
  • ORB’S ORANGE - the left chamber of The Orb with a big O in it
  • PEA’S PREREQUISITE - referring to the letter P, the letter before it is R
  • INSIDE THE PAINTING - could refer to the painting in The Partial which plops you right in front of the R
  • Regardless i can’t take action on this because I don’t have the M, and don’t know where it is oh i have the M now

On a whim I entered MORE and it worked. Not sure what INSIDE THE PAINTING refers to then

Found The Repetitive. Found another copy of H. Neat. Got my copy of I stolen from me. Less neat. But then found I can just return to the original location of I and pick it up again. Yay.

Solved The Owl and got the Z

Solved Four Rooms SUSPICION (sun) -> H???? using a lot of bruteforcing with letter-removers and got the duplicate A.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
xxOxxxxOxxxxxOxxxxxxOxxxxx

HUNCH. Yeah that makes sense, didn’t think it was possible without the duplicate H.

Found J in The Jubilant. Thank you google search for “synonyms pull”.

Solved The Tree using some more letter-bruteforcing (and a hint from Ath). As far as I can tell, nothing changed.

Got X - I had to look that up, sorry (not used to the dot mechanic yet)

Found the Sun Temple and I think I understand the gimmick, but don’t have enough letters to enter MOON.

Solved TEACH/LEARN after finding X and doing more panel-bruteforcing on a puzzle I was stuck on:

HEAL (unsnake) -> N????

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
xxxxOxxxxxxxxOxxx OxOxxxxx

contains N, E, U, S, R -> NURSE

Got into the back of The Great.

Got into The Between, found The Lively, got infinite-L.

Found and solved The Lionized, got infinite-E. Seems powerful…!

Found and solved The Nuanced, got infinite-N. There is still a sign saying “TORE (add 2) -> 6” that I don’t have the letters for.

Probably did some other stuff.

Guessed MISTREAT (un-doors) -> REAM in The Great. Not sure if it did anything lol.

Got the Q in The Quiet. This completes my entire keyboard.

Got the purple ending in the Sun Temple.