The Room Directory's top-down views contain paintings that match Picture Puzzle pairs. Each pair yields a letter and a grid position. Where do the rooms go?
UnsolvedSetup: The Room Directory shows a top-down view of every room in the estate. Many rooms contain tiny paintings visible on their walls. The game's Picture Puzzle established that painting pairs represent two words differing by one letter, and the missing letter is the answer. Both versions of "A New Clue" point to the Room Directory as significant.
The key insight: Each painting pair from the Room Directory matches an entry in the Picture Puzzle's 9x5 grid. That entry has a specific position (e.g. E3, C1). The hypothesis is: place each room at the grid position corresponding to its painting pair. This creates a drafting pattern that may need to be replicated in-game, or read in some way (first letters, room properties, etc.).
Same painting, multiple rooms: Several rooms share the same painting pair (e.g., Peak/Pea appears in 3+ rooms). This may indicate choices at each grid position, or that only one room per position matters.
Method: For each room, identify the painting pair in the directory view, match it to a Picture Puzzle entry, note the position, and place the room on the 9x5 grid.
Resources: Holly Estate provides 500% zoom of each room. Wiki images allow 250-500% zoom (replace "Garage" with any room name in the URL).
The Peak/Pea painting pair appears in the Secret Passage, Office, Wine Cellar, and Foyer directory views. Missing letter: K. Position: E3.
The Flan/Flank painting pair appears across 15 rooms. Missing letter: K. This pair does not match any Picture Puzzle entry (closest is Flan/Fan = L at D7). Cannot be placed on the grid. Could the pair be a default placeholder?
The Face/Ace painting pair appears in the Entrance Hall and Dining Room directory views. Missing letter: F. Position: C1.
The Stage/Stag painting pair appears in the Den directory view. Missing letter: E. Position: D6.
The Pray/Pry painting pair appears in the Conference Room directory view. Missing letter: A. Position: B1.
The Bath/Bat painting pair appears in the Attic directory view. Missing letter: H. Position: D2.
The Road/Rod painting pair appears in the Billiard Room directory view. Missing letter: A. Position: C3.
Guest Bedroom's directory view shows the Dessert/Desert painting pair. Missing letter: S. Position: A1.
Parlor's directory view may show the Tiger/Tier painting pair. Missing letter: G. Position: C5.
Utility Closet's directory view may show the House/Hose painting pair. Missing letter: U. Position: C8.
Check the Room Directory views and report which painting pairs you can identify. Every room helps!
Each room's paintings correspond to a specific position on the Picture Puzzle grid. Placing rooms at those positions creates a drafting pattern that could be replicated in-game: draft specific rooms into specific positions on the estate grid. The result might reveal a hidden message (first letters, room properties, colour, italic text, or something else). Originally proposed by u/Familiar-Object9912.
Rather than placing rooms, the extracted letters themselves (read in directory grid order or Picture Puzzle grid order) may spell a message.
Peak/Pea appears in 3+ rooms. If each painting pair maps to one grid position, having multiple rooms at one position implies a choice: you pick which room to draft there. The "correct" selection might depend on room mechanics, colours, or other in-game properties.
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Each cell is a Picture Puzzle position. Green = room(s) confirmed. Yellow = tentative. Red = no rooms identified yet.
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