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Puzzle 059, Find the Entrance, solved end to end
Column each feature, row each door, tally the three features separately, and pick the door holding all three winners. Memo is free; Submit is a check, not a search.
Puzzle 059 is called Find the Entrance, and the official screenshot of the puzzle screen shows the whole thing: a gear-shaped workshop wall covered in doors, a text box at the top left, and six buttons along the bottom. It is a good first case study because it is an attribute-match puzzle with nothing hidden.
Here is what the text box says. You have arrived at Eggmuffin's workshop and you cannot tell which door leads inside. The entrance is said to feature the most common window shape, the most common handle shape, and the most common playing card suit. Then the question: which door fits the description?
The interface, in order
Six buttons, and knowing what each one costs you is most of the strategy.
| Button | What it does | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| Memo | Opens a notepad over the puzzle | Nothing. Use it every time |
| Hints | Offers hints in tiers | Hint coins, one tier at a time |
| Solve Later | Sets the puzzle aside and returns you to town | Nothing, but you lose the current attempt state |
| Submit | Checks your answer | A wrong answer usually costs a penalty |
| Quick-Save | Writes your current state | Nothing |
| Restart | Resets the puzzle to its opening state | Nothing |
Two of those buttons are free and one of them is the most underused feature in the series. Memo is free, it persists while you think, and it exists precisely because this family of puzzle is a counting exercise. Players who lose attribute puzzles usually lose them because they tried to hold six doors and three features in their head.
The method, applied
Step one: write the features as columns. Window shape, handle shape, suit. Three columns, nothing else. If a feature appears in the question, it gets a column; if it does not, it does not get one, however interesting it looks.
Step two: list the doors as rows. Number them as you go, left to right, top to bottom. You need names for them that you can write down, and door numbers are the only names that survive the next five minutes.
Step three: tally each column separately. Do not compare doors to each other. Count how many doors have each window shape, put the totals at the bottom, and find the highest. Then do the same for handles. Then suits. Three separate counts, three winners.
Step four: find the door that holds all three winners. This is the step people skip, and it is where the puzzle actually lives. It is entirely possible for no door to hold all three most-common features, which means you miscounted one column - go back and recount that one only.
Step five: submit once. Submit is a check, not a search. If you are using Submit to test candidates, you have moved from solving to guessing, and the penalty makes that expensive.
A good first teacher
It contains no wordplay, no hidden assumption, and no arithmetic beyond counting to six. Everything that makes it hard is executive: holding three separate tallies, not blending them, and resisting the urge to pick the door that looks most like an entrance.
That last point is the real lesson. The most attractive door is rarely the answer in this family, because the puzzle author picked features so that the most common combination lands somewhere unremarkable. If your candidate is the one you noticed first, count again.
What the six buttons say about the whole game
The presence of Memo, Solve Later and Restart on the same bar tells you what kind of game this is. It expects you to get stuck, it gives you three free ways out, and it charges only for hints and wrong submissions. Play accordingly: memo early, restart before you hint, and treat Submit as the last action rather than the next one.
For the general method across every puzzle family, read puzzle types. If you are stuck on something else right now, the diagnosis page works from the symptom backwards.