{"id":249,"date":"2026-04-14T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:08:53","slug":"a-puzzle-in-microids-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/a-puzzle-in-microids-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express\/","title":{"rendered":"A Puzzle In Microid&#8217;s Agatha Christie&#8217;s Murder on the Orient Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">In Microid&#8217;s <em>Agatha Christie&#8217;s The Murder on the Orient Express<\/em>, there&#8217;s a minigame where you turn dials on a briefcase lock. A click sounds plays as you pass each number, with a louder sound played on the correct number for each dial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br>The dial is surrounded by a white oval which becomes squiggly as each sound plays &#8211; visually modeling what the sound is modeling. When you move over a correct number, the oval becomes even more squiggly to match the louder sound. It&#8217;s a nice bit of accessible design, giving feedback in two different ways using two different senses on a very straightforward puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You dial in two numbers and move on to the third and a member of the train&#8217;s staff starts talking to you every time you turn the dial. You can&#8217;t really hear the clicks anymore, and the oval is &#8220;loud noise&#8221; mode every time he talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To solve the puzzle, you have to back out of the minigame and ask the man to be quiet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s funny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Microid&#8217;s Agatha Christie&#8217;s The Murder on the Orient Express, there&#8217;s a minigame where you turn dials on a briefcase lock. A click sounds plays as you pass each number, with a louder sound played on the correct number for each dial. The dial is surrounded by a white oval which becomes squiggly as each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[73,74],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-words","tag-murder-on-the-orient-express","tag-puzzle-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}