[Donut

A snack item obtained from the Snack-Doku vending machine.

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The Donut is a snack item in Escape Academy, dispensed from the Snack-Doku vending machine after you insert a coin and enter the correct code. Its primary use is as bait: placing it on a plate lures out Turmeric the rat, which you need to restore power and continue the puzzle chain. Below is the full sequence, from collecting the coin to putting the Donut to work.

Overview

The Donut is an Item obtained from the Snack-Doku vending machine. You must first earn a coin by solving the Snack-Doku puzzle and insert it into the machine before you can retrieve the Donut [src-afb24872ff]. Once you have it, carry it across the room and place it on the plate to lure out the rat [src-cc415a0c9f].

How to Get the Donut

1. Grab the coins. Click the coins sitting on the table near the start of the room [src-59f8d3957c]. You need a coin before the vending machine will do anything [src-afb24872ff].
2. Solve Snack-Doku for a coin. The vending machine requires a coin, and the Snack-Doku puzzle is how you earn one [src-afb24872ff]. The puzzle grid is four rows, layered in the same exact way [src-afb24872ff].
3. Insert the change. Go to the vending machine next to the newspaper stand and insert the change first — the machine will not dispense anything until you do [src-cc415a0c9f].
4. Type the code C4. With the coin inserted, enter C4 on the vending machine to select the Donut [src-cc415a0c9f] [src-59f8d3957c].
5. Pick it up. Once the Donut comes out of the machine, make sure you actually pick it up [src-cc415a0c9f].

Using the Donut

1. Carry it across the small room. Take the Donut to the far side of the room where you will see a plate on the ground with a rat next to some food [src-cc415a0c9f].
2. Approach the plate. The rat runs away when you get close, leaving the plate empty [src-cc415a0c9f].
3. Place the Donut on the plate. Putting the Donut down lures the rat back out [src-cc415a0c9f]. As one walkthrough puts it, the rat is the one who likes the Donut — let it come out, then grab it [src-59f8d3957c].
4. Grab Turmeric the rat. Pick the rat up from the floor. This is Turmeric, and you need him for the next stage of the puzzle [src-cc415a0c9f].

What the Donut Unlocks

Grabbing Turmeric is the gateway to the rest of the room's puzzle chain:

• Collect three pipe pieces. One is on the couch directly next to where you picked up the rat. Go up the stairs and turn left at the top to find a workbench with another pipe piece on the wall, plus a third piece on the couch next to it. All three pieces are identical [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Repair the pipe system. Near where you spawned, a pipe system has three missing pieces. Slot all three in to connect the pipes — simple, since every piece is the same [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Insert Turmeric into the rat cage at the beginning of the pipe system. This powers the pipes and restores power to the facility [src-cc415a0c9f].

From there you can use any nearby computer: enter the password square, circle, square, triangle, circle and submit it, then open viruses, enter 1101, and click create to produce a floppy disk [src-cc415a0c9f] [src-59f8d3957c].

Tips

• Don't skip the coin. The vending machine will not dispense the Donut until change is inserted, so finish Snack-Doku first [src-afb24872ff] [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Double-check the code. The walkthrough specifies C4 — make sure the machine registers the selection before expecting the Donut to drop [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Pick the Donut up immediately. It will not follow you; you must collect it from the machine before using it as bait [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Order flexibility. Much of this room can be done in any order — you can't soft-lock the puzzle — but the Donut-to-rat step is what starts the power restoration chain [src-59f8d3957c].

Rewards

Placing the Donut and catching Turmeric yields the rat needed to power the facility's pipes [src-cc415a0c9f]. Restoring that power opens the computer terminal sequence and, ultimately, the floppy disk used on the lasers [src-59f8d3957c]. Note that other appearances of donuts elsewhere in the game (such as toasted-donut props in kitchen puzzles) are separate objects and not this vending-machine item [src-eca7cb7683] [src-7fcadcc2ae].

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Sources

• Escape Academy Walkthrough | ALL Achievements / Trophies
• Escape Academy DLC 2 Escape From The Past (Yes Chef)
• Escape Academy Chapter 2 The Computer Lab
• Escape Academy - All Achievements/Trophies Walkthrough - 100% Puzzle Solution Guide (Xbox Game Pass)
• The Escape Academy | Episode 3 | Bust a Move