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Struggling to solve the Blue Prince Parlor Games puzzle? One of the first puzzle rooms you can draft is the Parlor. It’s a spacious lounge consisting of a few pieces of furniture and three boxes of different colours. Head over to the desk at the back and you can read a note detailing a game involving these boxes played between Herbert S. Sinclair and his friend, M. Lowry.
The goal is to unlock the correct box using the key on the desk by a process of elimination and deduction based on the statements marked on each. However, the statements change every day so you can never rely on using the same solution as the last time you visited the Parlor. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to find the Parlor Game box puzzle solution in Blue Prince.
How to find the Blue Prince Parlor Game solution
To solve the Parlor Game puzzle, you’ll need to open the box that contains the prize. To find the right box, you’ll need to read the statements on the boxes and determine which are correct and which are not. If you leaf through to the second page of the letter from M. Lowry on the desk, you’ll see the rules of the game, as follows:
- At least one box always displays only true statements, or in other words, not all the box statements can be false.
- At least one box always displays only false statements, or put differently, not all the box statements can be true.
- Only one box has a prize inside and the other two are empty
Parsing through these and simplifying them, we can boil it down to the following: one box is true and two are false OR two boxes are true and one is false. The solution always comes in one of these two permutations.
The box is blue so the statement is false. Captured by VideoGamer
The box is white so the statement is false. Captured by VideoGamer
Knowing that the other two box statements are false, we can deduce that this one is correct. Captured by VideoGamer
Nothing beats an example here, so let’s take a look at the images just above. The boxes display the following statements:
- Blue box – This box is the white box
- White box – This box is the black box
- Black box – The blue box contains the gems.
We can pinpoint the false statements here quite easily. The blue box is blue not white as the statement suggests so the statement is false. The white box is white not black unlike what the statement says. We can therefore deduce that the black box is displaying the true statement and that the blue box contains the gems. Indeed, using the key on the blue box will produce the gems.
The statements come in dozens of varieties, some tougher than others, but the solution is always obtained by using logic and reasoning based on the statements on the boxes. The tricks is to always try and weed out the incorrect statement(s). This will make finding the correct one(s) a lot simpler.
Once you’ve found the solution, always remember to grab the key from the table and unlock the correct box to get the gems, which you’ll need to unlock some Blue Prince’s most crucial rooms. Additionally, you can unlock one of the Blue Prince trophies called A Logical Trophy by winning 40 Parlor Games. As you venture deeper into Blue Prince, you’ll likely see the same statements pop up again. It’s worth noting down the solution every time you play the Parlor Games in case the same statements pop up later on.
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