Riddle School 2
Year two of the escape: Riddle Middle School, where getting out means loose change, a vending machine and Phred's whistle.
The 2007 sequel moves Phil up to Riddle Middle School, a considerably bigger building than the elementary one. The shape is familiar - find the key, reach the door - but the chain of favours is longer and there is much more item juggling. This is also the game where Phred hands Phil the whistle he carries for the rest of the series.
Money is the spine of it: you need 75 cents gathered from the school's odds and ends for the vending machine cookie, and the coins are scattered across rooms that need other items opened first. Zack's running gag about always being cold escalates here, and the classroom jokes lean on the fourth wall harder than the first game did.
Controls
Mouse only - point and click to move, examine, pick up and use items
Tips
- Count to exactly 75 cents; short-changing the vending machine is the most common place people stall.
- Revisit rooms after every new item - old scenery becomes interactive once you hold the right thing.
- Talk to each classmate twice; a few only give up the useful line on a second conversation.