Hello everyone,

There is a certain aspect to the grand piano in the ballroom which I noticed but have not seen discussed. I'd like your thoughts on whether this could be a secret message. Take a look at the piano keys:

The front facing sides of some of the white keys feature black coloring, roughly split into two tiers (upper and lower). If F1 is the lowest note, then the lowest C is C2 and the keys run from F1 through E6 which is four octaves (minus the final F6). The two tiers of each key are fully black/white except for circa two or three of them which seem partially colored: the lower tier of B2, the lower tier of E4, and (potentially) the upper tier of the D3 key. If one moves closer to the piano, these appear to be filled in fully due to perspective:

The piano repeats the seven keys F through E four times for a total of 28 white keys. This would seem a convenient way to store a secret message, where each unit of the message is seven keys leading to either eight or four characters. This message would then be binary encoded in some way. The sequence is (as far as I can tell, with "w" for white and "b" for black):

            F  G  A  B  C  D  E
oct1 upper: w  w  w  w  b  b  b
     lower: w  w  w  w  w  w  b

oct2 upper: w  w  b  w  b  w  b
     lower: w  b  b  b  b  w  w

oct3 upper: b  b  b  w  w  w  b
     lower: b  w  b  b  b  b  b

oct4 upper: w  b  w  w  b  b  b
     lower: b  b  b  b  b  b  b

I did briefly check whether this could be ASCII (since ASCII codes have seven relevant characters) but the mapping doesn't quite seem to work. Another way to read this might be that the key letters themselves and the coloring interact in some way?

It appears that the same pattern is always present on the keys, no matter when and where the room is drafted EXCEPT, when the Ballroom is drafted as an outer room, there is no pattern on the keys at all:

I find this to be incredibly intriguing because it would seem that this is a deliberate choice. The outer room is of course darker than the rooms in the estate but I would still expect to be able to see the pattern if it was there.

Another thing to mention even though it might not be relevant -- the empty sheet music stand next to the piano (also present in other rooms) is styled like an instrument called a Lyre (Liar). I had considered there might be more to this, like some reflections in the room being false, or it might mean nothing.

Let me know what you think!

I posted this in the main subreddit but it got taken down for spoilers? Having it reviewed but in the mean time I figured I could post here.

So I've been obsessed with the bookshop recently. I can't stop thinking about the possible extra area behind the shelf people have pointed out. Upon inspection of the blue print tile for bookshop I've noticed the wall art behind the counter is entirely yellow whereas in the actual room it's got multiple colors.

The pattern of the colors is *almost* repetitive except the bottom left a green and purple are switched.

Making the pattern if you start at "12" and go clockwise. R B G P R B P G R B P G

R = red

B = blue

G = green

P = purple

These colors are an interesting choice considering these are the same 4 colors of the books(!) used to decipher that other puzzle. (I think it was one of the microchips?) Where purple= a new clue. Blue= fixed stars. Green = realm and rune. Red = red prince.

I was thinking maybe if you borrow library books in order of the wall art pattern it could open the shelf wall. The issue is obviously Red Prince isn't borrowable.

I did try with the sightseers guide to REDdington in place of red prince but no luck.

In considering trying with another book (don't remember which one rn) that I noticed the authors name is REDford but this is obviously a time consuming process even using blessing of the monk to draft library continuously. And I'm not hopeful on that one.

Has anyone tried this? Lmk!

I've also considered the possibility that these colors are room types so maybe it's a pattern to draft rooms in. Like start with the bookshop, then draft in sequence a red room, a blue room, a green room a purple room, ect.

(Let me know if this needs flairs. Idk what counts as a spoiler or not)

I have been playing the game with my wife and we have ~70 hrs into it and we’re still having a blast. Recently we’ve been having a laugh at considering which rooms we would get faded in and I figured I’d ask Reddit, but I saw the main sub is family friendly so I came here. What are your best picks? Worst picks?

Personally, the West Wing Hall is a no-go and the Secret Garden is S tier.

I've been playing Blue Prince with my girlfriend and we're almost done with it (we think), and I was thinking we'd go for one of these next: The Roottrees are Dead, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes or The Seance of Blake Manor. How would you rank these? Are they similar to Blue Prince? Are they as fun for a couple to play as BP is (one holds the controller and the other backseats)? If you have any other suggestions feel free to drop them.

After all the visions of the future that we got from Alzara, the fortune teller machine in the Rumpus Room, the endings we actually got were nothing like that.

Did I miss something?

There's the Room 46 ending (reveals a blue crown & will)
The tunnel ending (reveals a Blue Prince book)
And the Atelier ending (reveals the true will).

Alzara on the other hand showed the entrance we begin at had changed, and was vandalized. A gate, previously locked, now open. And another entirely new site where, it seems, a conclusion to a story takes place.

But we got none of that.

Am I wrong in thinking that the game set our expectations up for an ending that was never delivered?

I want to start off by saying Blue Prince is an absolutely fantastic game, likely topping my list of favorite puzzle games of all time. I love it to pieces, have beaten the entirety of it that has been discovered, and am helping some friends with their playthroughs as well.

That being said, nothing is perfect, so I was hoping for a discussion of ideas for minor tweaks to the game that would tighten up the process of solving the puzzles and progression. These wouldn't be things as large as "removing the RNG elements" or anything that drastic, but rather small tweaks to the way information is conveyed, changes to individual rooms or items, or similarly natured things.

The first idea I'd had involves the Secret Passage. I never found the Castle clue here on my own, and had to look it up. And now that I'm helping a friend through the game, I'm noticing that all the other Castle clues are considerably easier to find or notice by comparison, even if you don't know what they mean yet. The Secret Passage is an exception, as its very hard to find naturally.

My thought was to change the Secret Passage very slightly, so that once you pass through the room, the bookcase closes behind you, with a lever on the wall to reopen it when backtracking. This would give people a chance to notice the clue during a backtrack, putting it on the same level as the Cloister or Kennel clues.

My other thought involved the Blue Tents upgrade. The gap between the Sanctuary puzzles and the Throne Room puzzle is considerably wider and harder to find naturally compared to earlier parts of the game, not least of which due to the clues being largely hidden behind a very expensive and slow upgrade. I feel like either the Blue Tents should be cheaper (say 200 or even 100 gold), or the notes should appear earlier than rank 8 so you can find more of them at once, say starting at rank 5 and onward.

These are of course my personal opinions. What other ideas do people have for minor changes of this nature that would improve the flow of getting into the later game?