[That Rings A Bell

A quest featuring the challenging Clocktower escape room in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School. Players must solve various timed puzzles involving a color code lock, rope and telescope constellation, cogs, planet models, and more.

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"That Rings A Bell" is a quest in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School that takes place in the Clocktower escape room. It is a multi-stage, timed challenge that chains together a color combination lock, a rope-and-telescope constellation puzzle, a cog mechanism, a planet model, and a final cipher puzzle. Because several steps depend on observations made in earlier steps, it pays to explore and note details before committing to answers.

How to Complete

The Clocktower is a vertical room: you solve a puzzle on one level, climb to the next, and repeat. Each major puzzle unlocks the ladder or passage to the next section, so if you feel stuck, look for the mechanism that opens your way up. The walkthrough below follows the room from the rope wheel to the final hidden-letter reveal.

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

1. The color combination lock

Look at the colorful combination lock on the rope wheel near the door. Around the room are colored stars, each with a different number of points. Match the number of points on each star to the corresponding color on the lock to free the rope [src-0dc02cf791].

2. Thread the rope and read the constellation

Next, look at the four printed symbols on the wall. Thread the rope through the handles that match these four symbols [src-0dc02cf791]. Then look through the telescope — the threaded rope forms a constellation-like shape matching one of the eight printed on the wall. It looks most like the one on a CAMEL [src-0dc02cf791].

3. Enter the constellation word

Input CAMEL into the lock on the wall. This grants access to a lever; pull it to release a ladder, then climb up [src-0dc02cf791].

4. Place and align the cogs

On the next level, pick up the three cogs around the room — a small, medium, and large one — and put them on the wall. Turn the cogs so the arrows line up [src-0dc02cf791]. Remember the order of the arrows: right, down, up, left, right, down [src-0dc02cf791].

5. Set the crank cog

Go to the cog with a crank and input the arrow order to open it up. This creates a ladder to climb up [src-0dc02cf791].

6. The telescope and planet model

Look through the telescope and note the order the shapes are stacked: pentagon, triangle, circle, hexagon, square [src-0dc02cf791]. Then look at the planet model and order the "planets" to match that sequence, going right to left [src-0dc02cf791]. Take the shears [src-0dc02cf791].

7. The cipher and the chest

Go back down the ladder and climb up the boxes to find a cipher table [src-0dc02cf791]. Return down and look at the locked chest with clocks on top. Use the cipher table to work out the correct order of letters — it's LUNAR [src-0dc02cf791]. Take the moonlight from inside the box [src-0dc02cf791].

8. Reveal the hidden letters

The moonlight reveals hidden letters. Walk near each purple moon symbol on the walls, and they'll reveal their letters [src-0dc02cf791].

Tips

• Write down the arrow order before you leave the cog wall. The sequence (right, down, up, left, right, down) is used at the crank cog, and the shape stack (pentagon, triangle, circle, hexagon, square) is used at the planet model — both are easy to forget once you move on [src-0dc02cf791].
• Note the planet model's right-to-left direction. The shape order from the telescope is entered in reverse on the model, which is a common place to get stuck [src-0dc02cf791].
• The shears and the moonlight are both needed after the planet puzzle, so grab the shears before heading back down the ladder [src-0dc02cf791].
• Because this is a timed escape room, do your observing (stars, symbols, telescope shapes) efficiently and only then start inputting answers.

Details

game

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School

location

Clocktower

Sources

• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School walkthrough - Full guide and puzzle ...
• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School - Complete Clocktower Puzzle Guide