Another Code: Recollection Frannie's Puzzle Box solution
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How to open Frannie’s puzzle Box in Another Code: Recollection

Kid has a future at the Spencer Mansion.

In Another Code: Recollection, young Frannie had a promising career ahead of her as an escape room or Resident Evil puzzle designer. She has a box that is locked by a mechanism controlled by dolls. So how do you open it?

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In Frannieā€™s room, if you examine the colorful box on top of the bookshelf, D will tell you that thereā€™s something important involving Frannieā€™s wooden dolls. Furthermore, if you try to open that box, it wonā€™t budge. Thereā€™s one doll on top and divots for two more.

The doll of Frannieā€™s father is in the same room, closer to the door. Itā€™s at the bottom of a box filled with building blocks. When you interact with it, youā€™re then able to mouse over the blocks and click them, one by one, removing them from the pile. Once you get to the bottom, you can pick up Frannieā€™s doll.

The doll is missing an arm, which, as D will tell you, is because the man himself was actually missing his right arm, presumably having lost it in WWII.

The last doll is in the room of Frannieā€™s parents nearby. Itā€™s located in a drawer in the vanity up near the beds, alongside a Dear John letter. The doll is a depiction of Frannieā€™s mother.

Another Code: Recollection the effigy of Frannie's father buried beneath building blocks.
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Take all the dolls back to the box. The only hint you have to go on is that the dolls need to get along. This is a pretty vague hint. However, if you put Frannie in the middle and an adult on either side, it becomes clear that their arms are in a pattern. They all need to hold hands, and since Frannieā€™s father is missing his right arm, that means he needs to go all the way on the left, so his left arm can reach Frannieā€™s Right. You can see this demonstrated in the header image.

So, the final pattern is father, Frannie, mother. The box will open, and youā€™ll get the sprout key.


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