White House Escape Hints

The first major goal is to open the elevator from the first floor. The solution starts with decorative objects in the first floor rooms.

Search the couch, unlock the hutch, compare the strange picture with the ornate table, then use what you learn on the marble pedestal.

1. Go to the first floor rooms and search the couch.
2. Take the hutch key.
3. Use the hutch key with the hutch.
4. Open the hutch and take the strange picture.
5. Use the strange picture with the ornate table.
6. Now search the marble pedestal.
7. Take the tuning lever from the hidden compartment.
8. Use the tuning lever with the piano.
9. Take the piano wire.
10. Use the piano wire to pull the gold key within reach.
11. Use the gold key with the fireplace cover.
12. Take/read the paper note with the elevator code.
13. Use the code on the first floor elevator keypad.
14. The first floor elevator code is 21224.

The guard cannot be handled directly. You need to send a distraction upstairs.

The dumbwaiter is useful, but it needs power first. The environmental computer and circuit map are the key.

1. Find the tongue depressor.
2. Use the tongue depressor with the grandfather clock.
3. Take the pendulum.
4. Search the filing cabinet to learn there is a printed form stuck behind it.
5. Use the pendulum with the filing cabinet.
6. Take/read the printed form. It gives the environmental computer login.
7. The computer login is 94553.
8. Open the map cabinet and take/read the circuit map.
9. The dumbwaiter circuit is 67B.
10. Log into the environmental computer with 94553.
11. Enter circuit ID 67B.
12. Get the water alarm.
13. Use the water alarm with water so it starts shrieking.
14. Use the active water alarm with the powered dumbwaiter.
15. The alarm distracts the guard upstairs.

After reaching the second floor and moving into the center hall, the elevator locks. The reset code is hidden through a mirror-reading puzzle.

Search the eagle seal, knock on the Treaty Desk, reveal a message with heat, then combine it with the sticky note.

1. Search the eagle seal in the North Closet Hall.
2. Go to the Treaty Room.
3. Knock three times on the Treaty Desk.
4. Take the blank note.
5. Use the blank note with the hair dryer in the Beauty Salon.
6. This reveals a garbled message.
7. Open the writing table to find the sticky note with holes.
8. Use the sticky note with the garbled message.
9. Use the garbled sticky note with the vanity mirror.
10. The mirror reveals the elevator reset code.
11. The second floor elevator terminal code is 42192.

The Queen’s Bedroom and Queen’s Sitting Room cannot be entered normally. You need to discover a hidden passage.

The chain starts in the President’s Bedroom fireplace and leads through the bureau, TV, Lincoln desk, Tiffany window, vent, and wall panel.

1. In the President’s Bedroom, search/examine the fireplace.
2. Take the long burnt stick.
3. Use the long burnt stick with the bureau.
4. Open/search the bureau.
5. Take the remote.
6. Use the remote with the TV.
7. This reveals information about a secret passage and makes the secret panel visible in the Lincoln Sitting Room.
8. Open the Lincoln desk.
9. Take the stovepipe hat.
10. Use the stovepipe hat with the Tiffany window.
11. Take the piece of metal from the hat.
12. Use the piece of metal with the vent in the Lincoln Sitting Room.
13. Use the opened secret panel.
14. You will enter the Queen’s Sitting Room.
15. Go to the Queen’s Bedroom.
16. Open the nightstand and take the kitchen cabinet key.
17. Use the kitchen cabinet key with the kitchen cabinet.
18. Take the cooking spray.

The music cabinet has a letter combination, not a number combination. The code is hidden in framed music.

Take/read both framed music pieces. Together they reveal the cabinet code.

1. Find and take the framed music pieces.
2. Read the framed music clues.
3. Go to the Music Room.
4. Enter the letter combination on the music cabinet.
5. The music cabinet code is GABE.
6. Open the music cabinet and take the sheet music.
7. Make sure the piano wire has been replaced in the piano.
8. Use the sheet music with the piano.
9. Take the skeleton key that falls out.

The guard dog needs food. Frozen food is not good enough.

You need a working microwave. The microwave needs an extension cord.

1. Find the blue key.
2. Use the blue key with the chest.
3. Open the chest and take the eight ball.
4. Use the eight ball with the pool table.
5. Take the broken pool cue.
6. Use the broken pool cue with the locked cabinet.
7. Open the cabinet and take the extension cord.
8. Use the extension cord with the microwave.
9. Find the frozen steak.
10. Use the frozen steak with the powered microwave.
11. Take the cooked steak.
12. Use the steak with the guard dog.
13. The dog will fall asleep, opening the way forward.

The basement escape route needs several awkward objects: tools, a cart, and something to bridge a gap.

The cooking spray opens the tool chest. The flower cart starts with a flat tire. The bowling pin can become something useful.

1. Use the cooking spray with the rusty tool chest.
2. Take the crowbar from the opened tool chest.
3. Use the crowbar with the lockers.
4. Take the Presidential Keycard.
5. Get the bowling pin from the Bowling Alley.
6. Use the bowling pin with the band saw.
7. Take the wooden wedge.
8. Use the wooden wedge with the flower cooler.
9. Take the flat-tired cart.
10. Find the pressure bulb.
11. Use the pressure bulb with the flat-tired cart.
12. Take the usable cart.
13. Use the cart with the carpet.
14. Take the rolled carpet.

The tunnel door uses letters. The clue comes from portraits viewed through a special item.

Use the antique glasses on presidential portraits. Three useful letters appear.

1. Open the display case and take the antique glasses.
2. Use the glasses with Washington’s portrait to reveal F.
3. Use the glasses with Adams’s portrait to reveal V.
4. Use the glasses with Jefferson’s portrait to reveal M.
5. Use the skeleton key with the keyhole to reveal/open the hidden tunnel area.
6. Enter the metal door code.
7. The metal door code is FVM.

You cannot safely enter the dark tunnel without a working flashlight.

The flashlight starts dead. You need to recharge it in a very White House Escape sort of way.

1. Open the nightstand in Bedroom 324.
2. Take the flashlight.
3. Use the dead flashlight with the mixer.
4. Take the active flashlight.
5. Now you can enter the dark tunnel.

The tunnel route is not enough by itself. You need a way across the chasm and a way to use the final room.

Bring the rolled carpet into the tunnel. The Presidential Keycard is used at the very end.

1. Enter the tunnel with the active flashlight.
2. Reach the chasm.
3. Use the rolled carpet with the chasm.
4. Cross the makeshift carpet bridge.
5. Continue through the tunnel route until you reach the final office.
6. Use the Presidential Keycard with the red phone.
7. This ends the game.